The Failures of Gallipoli

The Failures of Gallipoli

The objectives of the campaign were to capture Gallipoli, and then

invade Constantinople. This would knock Turkey out of the war and

encourage Turkey’s neighbours to join on the allied side. Then they

would invade Austria through the South and leave Germany isolated and

unable to continue the war.

The allies failed these objectives due to many reasons. The first

reason for failure was due to lack of training and training in the

wrong terrain. The allied and ANZAC troops were trained in the desert

for a short period while Gallipoli was rocky with hills and trenches.

They were not trained for landings on enemy beaches and therefore a

lot of soldiers died. This shows the ill thought out plan, they should

have trained the soldiers in similar terrain and also trained them for

landings, which they didn’t.

The equipment was also very bad. ANZAC troops would make homemade

bombs and use them as grenades due to lack of equipment and ammo. The

allied tactics were also very bad, they would always shell the

trenches and then attack so there was no element of surprise. Also

they used stupid tactics which were to send men over no mans land

knowing that there was hardly a chance that they would make it and

even if they did it would be maybe one or two men against 100. This is

also a sign of the ill thought out plan and also lack of supplies. I

think that if the plan was thought out better then there would have

been more supplies because it would have been obvious to the

commanders that the amount of supplies they had would run out because

it would take longer then they thought.

Also the communication was very b...

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commanders and gotten more than 20,000 soldiers, which were not enough

to take over Turkey. If the plan had been thought out better there

would not have been soldiers dying needlessly, like the soldiers on

the battleships hitting the mines, and therefore there would maybe not

have been a lack of soldiers in Turkey. Also if there were better

command, then there would have been better organisation. For example,

if the commanders gave the soldiers better orders to follow then they

might have been more successful. For example when the British troops

dug in instead of over-running the Turks, which they could have done,

the British troops did not know what exactly to do, and therefore they

dug in. If the commanders gave orders not to dig in and keep going

then they could have beaten the Turks in that battle.