Gallipoli Questions

... Gallipoli Question 2 - The Failure of the Campaign Source D tells us how orders were given "lightheartedly" and in a rather disorganized fashion, which clearly implies to me that the men giving the orders and in fact those carrying them out felt as though this war was a joke, and that the stalemate would never end. The Turks worked extremely hard and were tactically superior to the Brits and dug many trenches, which proved to be a formidable defense, because as soon as one trench had been taken, the Turks had already dug another. This must have been exceedingly demoralizing for the troops. When attacks were finally organized, there as great difficulty in supporting them and they were almost always made by lethargic men; not fresh ones. A comment that really sticks out to me, and I feel applies to the whole Gallipoli campaign is "It seemed rather amateur". It

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