Was there really a "best unit" of WW1?

by OrbitalCupcake

I often hear people say the Canadians were the best, or the Australians, or this corp or that. Has there been any type of objective study about it? Was there really a unit that was better than the rest, or is it just bias?

rhysw13

You're probably asking the wrong kind of question, a better question might be who was the best trained. There's no objective way of determining who was the "best" as different factors will give varying results. For example: Terrain, Commanders, Tactics and the enemy will have a large effect on the supposed effectiveness of a unit. Where one unit might have done spectacularly, another might have failed but different circumstances will provide different results. So yeah, there's no way to find a "best" unit objectively. Better questions might be: "best trained troops" or "Most effective battles"