== No Understanding Of The Plot's Final Denouement == 

 Whoever wrote the description of the plot clearly doesn't understand the final denouement of the film, the whole point being that The General Staff wanted to get rid of General Mireau because they viewed him as a terrible general, division commander and overall leader; I tried explaining this but my copy was removed, not that it was all that well written; I was hoping that someone would see my point and smooth out my prose; deleting it was obviously, in my opinion, not the way out, in fact, I view this as someone who was angry and jealous with me for not having figured this out for themselves and that's not my problem though they chose to make it one in their own inability to figure this out for themselves. 

 Gen. Mireau was a lousy general and leader but he could not be dismissed outrightly by The General Staff because he had allies in the press and with politicians; he clearly could only be disposed of in another way. 

 It was General Broulard who used what were obviously the most cynical Machiavellian machinations that ultimately got rid of the over-weening Gen. Mireau even though it meant decimating a division and executing three totally innocent men to do this but ultimately it was the only way the general staff had of getting rid of Mireau. 

 Broulard then deftly tries to fob the whole thing on what is actually the reality of the non-existent ambitions of Col. Dax, all to keep his own skirts, and those of The General Staff, all nice, clean and starchy; that whoever wrote the plot description not only couldn't figure this out but also took down my attempt to explain it: this is totally asinine.