How have you communicated that to the reader The term is not simple and the debate was begun in August 1916 by Winston Churchill it has been a political as well as historical football and is been insular since French and German writing has tended to put the battle into the context of a war of exhaustion Ermattungskrieg of the sort foreseen by Moltke the Elder after the Franco Prussian War Much of this writing has not been available to anglophone monoglots