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    Summary of Winston S. Churchill's The World Crisis, Vol 2
    Summary of Winston S. Churchill's The World Crisis, Vol 2
    Summary of Winston S. Churchill's The World Crisis, Vol 2
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    #1 The year 1915 was disastrous for the Allies and the entire world. By the mistakes of this year, the opportunity was lost to confine the fire within limits that were not uncontrollable.

    #2 The Battle of the Marne was a complete deadlock between the great combatants in the West by land and by sea. The German fleet remained sheltered in its fortified harbours, and the British Admiralty had no way of drawing it out. The trench lines ran continuously from the Alps to the sea, and there was no possibility of manœuvre.

    #3 The war of exhaustion is a plan of frontal attack that is doomed to fail. It is a tale of the torture, mutilation, or extinction of millions of men, and the sacrifice of all that was best and noblest in a generation.

    #4 There are many kinds of manœuvres in war, some of which take place on the battlefield. The distinction between politics and strategy diminishes as the point of view is raised. At the summit, true politics and strategy are one.

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    PublisherIRB Media
    Release dateJun 13, 2022
    ISBN9798822540187
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      Insights on Winston S. Churchill's The World Crisis, Vol 2

      Contents

      Insights from Chapter 1

      Insights from Chapter 2

      Insights from Chapter 3

      Insights from Chapter 4

      Insights from Chapter 5

      Insights from Chapter 6

      Insights from Chapter 7

      Insights from Chapter 8

      Insights from Chapter 9

      Insights from Chapter 10

      Insights from Chapter 11

      Insights from Chapter 12

      Insights from Chapter 13

      Insights from Chapter 14

      Insights from Chapter 15

      Insights from Chapter 16

      Insights from Chapter 17

      Insights from Chapter 18

      Insights from Chapter 19

      Insights from Chapter 20

      Insights from Chapter 21

      Insights from Chapter 22

      Insights from Chapter 23

      Insights from Chapter 24

      Insights from Chapter 1

      #1

      The year 1915 was disastrous for the Allies and the entire world. By the mistakes of this year, the opportunity was lost to confine the fire within limits that were not uncontrollable.

      #2

      The Battle of the Marne was a complete deadlock between the great combatants in the West by land and by sea. The German fleet remained sheltered in its fortified harbours, and the British Admiralty had no way of drawing it out. The trench lines ran continuously from the Alps to the sea, and there was no possibility of manœuvre.

      #3

      The war of exhaustion is a plan of frontal attack that is doomed to fail. It is a tale of the torture, mutilation, or extinction of millions of men, and the sacrifice of all that was best and noblest in a generation.

      #4

      There are many kinds of manœuvres in war, some of which take place on the battlefield. The distinction between politics and strategy diminishes as the point of view is raised. At the summit, true politics and strategy are one.

      #5

      The mechanical danger was the root of all our problems. It was not possible to remedy this evil by keeping the ships in harbor or by wasting the lives and valour of endless masses of men. The remedy seemed simple, but it was for months or even years scouted and disregarded by many of the leading men in both the fighting professions.

      #6

      The secret of winning the war was the use of smoke to blanket off a specific area so that troops could traverse it without being seen by the enemy. The allies and comrades of the steel plate, smoke, and poisonous smoke.

      #7

      When it was seen that the Germans were concentrating their armies against France, high hopes were held that the Russians would be able to roll forward and invade Germany from the east. But when the Russians were confronted by the Germans, they were unable to withstand their leadership, science, and discipline.

      #8

      The Russian armies, which were no match for the Germans, showed themselves superior to the Austro-Hungarian Empire’s forces. The defeat of Tannenberg and the Masurian Lakes did not make much of a impact in France and Britain, as the victory in Galicia took center stage.

      #9

      The British Government had an agent at the Russian Headquarters who was able to expose the situation in Russia. The Russians had an inexhaustible resources in men and food, but they were weak in artillery and rifles. They could not maintain their front with hardly any artillery fire or machine guns.

      #10

      The three salient facts of the war situation at the beginning of 1915 were the deadlock in France, the urgent need of relieving that deadlock before Russia was overwhelmed, and the possibility of relieving it by great amphibious and political-strategic operations on either flank.

      #11

      The Balkan states were the natural enemies of both Turkey and Austria, and they could be persuaded to join forces with Britain to attack Turkey and Austria. The Italian government was known to be friendly towards the Allied cause, and it was believed that any successful action taken by Britain in this region would draw Italy into the war as a first-class ally on our side.

      #12

      There were two plans to use sea power to break the deadlock in the West in 1915. They aimed to break into and dominate the land-locked waters which guarded the Teutonic flanks. They would give direct contact with Russia and rescue our Eastern Ally from her deadly isolation.

      Insights from Chapter 2

      #1

      The German Navy was expecting a battle with the British Fleet, but they never came. They were instead waiting for the British to come out and fight them in their war harbours.

      #2

      The British Navy was able to cut Germany off from the rest of the world during the first phase of the war. The Admiralty was content with this, and did not seek anything more.

      #3

      The British wanted to draw the German Fleet out of its harbours and into a battle, so they created a plan that would be extremely difficult for Germany to resist. They invented or discovered something that would be extremely difficult for Germany to tolerate.

      #4

      The British Admiralty could not obtain the naval command of the Baltic Sea until the German Fleet was destroyed, or the Kiel Canal was effectively blocked. The operation of sending a British Fleet through the Belts to enter the Baltic was feasible, and could be achieved if the main strategic situation were favorable.

      #5

      The prime operation that stood in the path of all the other naval operations was the capture of the German island of Borkum. It was difficult to see past such an event. The difficulties of this preliminary decisive stage were such that the Admiralty recoiled from facing it.

      #6

      The plans were approved in principle by Prince Louis, and Sir Arthur Wilson thought the operation feasible. But Lord Fisher, when he arrived at the Admiralty, was still opposed to the attack on Borkum. He did not believe that the North Sea could be made impassable by sowing mines broadcast.

      #7

      I persistently tried to concentrate attention on the practical steps necessary to storm and seize the island of Borkum, and thus either block in the German Fleet or bring it out to battle. I found no

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