The War Of The Gallipoli War Essay - 2089 Words

â€Å"Damn the Dardanelles! They will be our grave!† So said Admiral Fisher, the Commander of the Royal Navy in a letter to Winston Churchill on April 5th, 1915. Fisher’s impassioned statement was to prove itself chillingly accurate in the disastrous military operation that followed. Following the Great War many military thinkers attempted to refine the principles of warfare to avoid the horrors of trench warfare, and military disasters such as the Gallipoli campaign. One of these thinkers was British military historian J.F.C Fuller, who developed nine principles of warfare to guide a well-orchestrated and successful military operation. In the following essay I will be applying these nine principles – mass, objective, offensive, simplicity, economy of force, manoeuvre, unity of command, security, and surprise - to the Gallipoli military operation to reveal the glaring flaws in Churchill’s original plan and in it’s execution by the Commanding Office rs of the Allied forces. 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