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Not Churchill's only disaster: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Sidney_Street http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Sidney_Street There's a reason people
by handelaar 12y ago
Not Churchill's only disaster: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Sidney_Street http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Sidney_Street
There's a reason people in the UK paid no attention whatsoever to Churchill during the 1920s and '30s. It wasn't that they disagreed with his increasingly-urgent warnings about Hitler -- it's that the only man issuing them was a "known idiot".
- cjensen 12y agoThere is a difference between being a scapegoat and being at fault. Churchill was the former with respect to Gallipoli; his actual plan was simply not followed.
- kchoudhu 12y ago"It was a beautiful plan on paper!" -- every terrible manager ever.
- mpyne 12y agoSure, but in a military operation there's no substitute for planning and coordination, and execution. The plan will always need to change, and you can find a dozen generals with famous quotes that will back that up. But the solution after the plan breaks down isn't no plan, it's the next plan. Only at the most tactical level can you get by with just your wits and the gear you have with you, everything else needs good planning of some sort.
- cjensen 11y agoWarplans require that resources be allocated. If you come up with a plan that requires S3 and AWS and your company gives you a Dell Server attached to the local cable internet, you too may become a scapegoat for a failed plan.