Haig seemed like a ruthless commander many of the sources suggest that he was ruthless because of his state of mind which clearly stated that he only cared about winning the war than all of his soldiers. After countless attacks during the battle of the Somme, he had not successfully had a raid throughout the whole battle til the November rains. The soldiers that died in that war was a huge impact on our nation 200,000 people is way to much to handle.

It was not only the soldiers that thought that Haig was only focused on the war Winston Churchill in his personal memos talked about Haig not being conscious of the attacks he was making on the Germans. Haig ordered squadron after squadron to be brought into battle. The Germans artillery was very heavy and the English could not move there artillery up to the trench lines till later on in the war. Since most of the English were camped up in the middle of no mans land the English were an easy target. Haig being the butcher that he was constantly commanded the English to keep on  challenging them even though their numbers were decreasing much faster than the Germans. Haig called in for much more back up bringing New Zealand, Australia and Canada into the fight. One of the Canadian raids which were supposedly a sneak attack were decimate as the Germans got their before they had time to get into position. His mind set was very curious and it took him two years to finally defeat the Germans even though they should have won the battle before it even began.

Haigs carelessness leads me to think that he was a butcher he seemed completely contuos of his attacks but losing men did not seem to make him change his mind after at least 100,000 Brits were dead. These facts lead me to think that Haig was a butcher for his stupidness  and carelessness about all of the soldiers that died for a cause which could have easily be fixed.

Lorenzo Zemaitis de Luca