Comments by "Vikki McDonough" (@vikkimcdonough6153) on "The Dardanelles Naval Assault - Falling at the First and Last Hurdles (Fixed)" video.

Forts also can't move around to force the enemy to continuously shift their aim or to concentrate overwhelming fire against specific targets. Naval vessels can.
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@mbr5742 Ah, yes, the ship leading the fleet that had the temerity to simply sail right up that fjord without even bothering to suppress the forts when said forts could've been easily destroyed from long range by the fleet's heavy guns had they actually tried. A simple problem of stupendous arrogance, just as in the Dardanelles.
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And the worst part of it was that, by de Robeck's time, that assessment had actually become wrong; it only appeared to be true in this case due to incompetent planning and execution of the naval operation.
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Why didn't Carden just nod agreeably at the orders coming from London, and then proceed to ignore them in the knowledge that, come victory, all would be forgiven?
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"the destruction of both the Ottomans and the Russian Empire" And that of the Armenian, Greek, and Assyrian populations of Anatolia, don't forget them.
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If WWI ends quickly, WWII likely doesn't happen.
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Few times has the saying "snatching defeat from the jaws of victory" been more applicable.
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@Ivy2D Yes.
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