Word: gallipoli
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...guillotine in 1794, "The republic has no use for scientists." No longer do nations waste their resources by sending their best scientists to the battlefields instead of to the laboratories-as the British in 1915 sent the 20th Century's most promising physicist, young Henry Moseley, to Gallipoli, where he was shot through the head...
...Italy scheme, it sounds like another example of the Gallipoli at which Colonel Kernan rails so effectively. Unless he has information on the present control of the Mediterranean which is unknown to the layman he would appear to speak unwisely. He may continue to dismiss the value of sea power with the pat chapter title "Mahan Was Wrongl," but until he brings facts rather than sarcasm to bear on the Admiral's theory, control of the sea lanes will still have a certain appeal to warring powers and the Mediterranean will still be a difficult "mare nostrum" in which...
...Blarney was a brilliant staff officer in France and at Gallipoli in World War I. He retired from the Army in 1925, and was planning a honeymoon (with his second wife) when World War II began. He immediately rejoined the Army, was soon in the Middle East...
...Remember, we are the Anzac breed. Our men stormed Gallipoli. They swept through the Libyan Desert. They were the 'Rats of Tobruk.' . . . They were the men who fought under bitter, sarcastic, pugnacious [General Henry] Gordon Bennett down Malaya, and were still fighting when the surrender of Singapore came...
...memoirs: "I was very insistent and rather a nuisance . . . and I think most of my offensive efforts remained pigeonholed in the War Staff offices." In April 1940, when Britain's Cabinet and military were still crammed with appeasement-minded men, he cited the "lessons of Gallipoli, where we failed for lack of bold policy . . . defeated . . . by the pusillanimous Government torn by conflicting advice and fearful of responsibility." A month later he revealed that the War Cabinet had refused his demand that he attempt the capture of Trondheim, and he said baldly that such a capture would have been possible...