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Originally Posted by melkor the first The Dardenelles in WW1 was not a blunder by WC but by the tactical command- the blunders there are countless and a harbinger of British ineptness in Normandy. The Greek campaign was a blunder operationally but necessary strategically as it demonstrated that Great Britain was not going to back down from confrontation. WC's worst blunders were his inabilty to interest his allies in relieving Warsaw and a disasterous 1944-5 incursian I believe in the Aegean. |
Unfortunately, as well as getting a belting in Greece and then in Crete, the British lost all the positive momentum in North Africa at the time of the Greece decision.
No strategically it was a terrible decision by Churchill. I wish people would stop trying to cover up for him.