Originally Posted by
Baldrick62
GR,
I'm not quite so sure about that, as it achieved the German operational aim to FIX the French and write down their combat power in an attritional battle - 'bleeding them white' - which contributed to the lowering of French morale later in the war. However, what the German High Command had not correctly calculated was their own losses to achieve that operational aim, resulting in a fatal loss of their own combat power to sustain further offensives in the West.
That said, there was great futility in the final outcome; a status quo ante and the loss of huge numbers of lives.
BofB
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