As a result of the continuous attritional fighting and in response to changing strategies and tactics, the B.E.F. restructured their fighting corps in order to create more divisions. The trade-off would be that the battalions and brigades would have fewer men. To Currie, this meant nothing other than a weakening of the groups fighting the battle. He wanted none of it and pushed back against Haig and the other leaders in Britain. Currie’s stand on this point may be the single most important factor in determining the Canadian force’s strength for the remainder of the war. In fact, while every other Entente Corps was creating new divisions by taking a portion of men from existing divisions, the Canadian’s were allowed to break up their 5th Division (training in Britain at that time) and use it to strengthen their other 4 divisions currently in France. This meant that not only did those other divisions gain the manpower, but they also gained the artillery, machine guns, mortars, et cetera, as well. Currie got his wish. Now his 4 divisions were each a few thousand infantry over-strength, each totalling around 12 000 men. With British divisions now down to about 8 000 and with many German divisions at roughly the same strength, Canadian divisions now had a huge advantage in numbers, both in terms of greater attacking power and also in terms of their capacity to sustain intense combat with the enemy. These aspects allowed the Canadians to continually pressure the German defenses.