{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "So something interesting about WW1 is that while it\u2019d be silly to say the American Expeditionary Force was not success it is...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/662474382640283648/", "html": "<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"https://memecucker.tumblr.com/post/662427140098293761/so-something-interesting-about-ww1-is-that-while\" target=\"_blank\">memecucker</a>:</p><blockquote><p>So something interesting about WW1 is that while it\u2019d be silly to say the American Expeditionary Force was not success it is interesting how the United States was in the war for a pretty short period of time and yet racked up disproportionately high casualties and the way I\u2019ve heard that explained is that the US forces reached the front in 1918 fighting as if it were 1914 so like massed infantry charges but backed up with enough numerical superiority and high morale to overcome German defenses</p><p>and like i think that\u2019s interesting bc if you were to make a WW1 based game the United States should be the faction that views it\u2019s soldiers as the most expendable but that would be the sorta thing American gamers would neither expect nor necessarily agree with in a \u201cidealism\u201d sorta way</p></blockquote>"}