Could the Germans have Won the WWI?

Beleau Wood was not a major battle and did not stop the German offensive and was as much a French Battle as an American one.

Not that the American troops didn't fight bravely-- they did but it just isn't the war winning action its often painted.

As for the British not understanding Trench warfare anyone who really studies the battle of the Somme will see that they did and they won that weeks long battle (it wasn't just the first day).

If the British were so bad why were their casualties no higher (and perhaps less) than any other combatant?

They were faced with a level of technology that favoured the attacker , same as everyone else -- except that had to build an army from almost nothing, which they did eventually defeating the 'best' army in the world.

In four short years they developed an army and tactics -- tanks, creeping barrage etc-- that by 1918 saw the British army as perhaps the best in the world.

The American were brave poorly equipped newcomers who would have done great things in 1919 but ,partly because of their very existence, the war ended in 1918.

The idea that they 'saved' Britain and France is simply nationalistic rubbish.

Originally posted by red clay Nationalistic Rubbish?  Funny, I was thinking the same thing, but not about my writings.

Well I was thinking more about Mountain Man who makes many simply wrong statements