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> He got Turkey into WW1 on the side of Germany. The Gallipoli defeat was a Churchill scheme. The Northern Africa Campaign was a Churchill scheme. Likewise the
by allturtles 3y ago
> He got Turkey into WW1 on the side of Germany. The Gallipoli defeat was a Churchill scheme. The Northern Africa Campaign was a Churchill scheme. Likewise the Italian Campaign.
Some of these claims are rather debatable. I'm not sure what you even mean by "the Northern Africa Campaign was a Churchill scheme"; that campaign began when Mussolini ordered his forces to attack Egypt.
In any case, weighed against all his negatives, Churchill has one thing very much in his favor: continuing to prosecute the war against Germany even after France surrendered was also a Churchill scheme.
- nicbou 3y agoNot only that, but North Africa (well, Operation Torch) was a far better idea than the Americans' plan to oand directly in France. It gave the fledgling American army a chance to learn many important lessons.
- allturtles 3y agoOh, I see, GP meant Torch. That makes sense. I don't see why that would be considered "disastrous" or "hare-brained" though. It was pretty successful. It seems likely that invading France in 1942 would indeed have been disastrous, though.