What about the Dardanelles?

The 1915 Dardanelles operation looms large in nearly every appreciation of Winston Churchill’s political career. In the decades following the disastrous military effort to force the Dardanelles Straits with warships during the First World War, the name was thrown in his face by hecklers at political events and became shorthand for the grandiosity of his pretensions as a military planner. Churchill himself never shied from the association, regarding its failure as one of execution rather than conception. “Don’t imagine that I am