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Gallipoli
The Gallipoli campaign of 1915 was probably the one great strategic idea of WW1. If the Dardanelle’s and the Gallipoli peninsula could have been captured by the allies, then Constantinople would have fallen and Turkey would have been knocked out of the war. This would have rendered later campaigns such as in Palestine unnecessary and would have certainly shortened the war by at least a year, kept Czarist Russia in the war and probably would have prevented the communist revolution of 1917 in Russia. The campaign, however, was doomed to failure due to the lack of preparation, leadership, and the faults of the system.
Churchill must shoulder much of the blame for the failure at Gallipoli as he should have recognised that naval gunfire alone would not reduce or capture Turkish force and merely led to the l
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