A disappointment. Very little discussion of how Churchill influenced the Middle East -- which supposedly was subject of the presentation. Discussion of the Middle East doesn't start until 59:37. Everything before that point is just a review of the First World War.
It appears you missed the point of the lecture: showing how strategy towards the Middle East must not be viewed in isolation, but rather as part of a great power’s global interests
@@kevinbyrne4538 Well Britain in the time of Churchill was a great power, just like America is today. And the lecture does cover Churchill at some length. But fair enough, it is not always obvious to people that something can be about more than what it is about.
At 29:07 you say someone had to be blamed as if an innocent man was going to be wrongly executed, well, Churchill was not innocent at all, he was First Lord of the Admiralty at the time, therefore responsible for all of Britain's naval operations and the Dardanelles operation was first proposed by him, in conjunction with a landing in Schleswig-Holstein, drawing Denmark (and possibly Sweden) into the war and re-opening the Baltic Sea route to Russia. This landing never got beyond Churchill's wild scheming, it involved too many loosely-formed stages and severe risks to the Royal Navy from operating in the German Bight: ''...Churchill’s second plan was an amphibious landing on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey, on the European side of the Dardanelles. If taken swiftly and by surprise, the British would then have effective control of the Dardanelles, allowing the Royal Navy to enter the Sea of Marmara and threaten the Turkish capital of Constantinople directly. Churchill had been arguing for such a maneuver from the instant it looked likely Turkey might join the war, and by the end of 1914 was saying it should have been done at the end of November with the few Australian divisions recently arrived in Egypt.'' today-in-wwi.tumblr.com/post/106736019863/churchill-proposes-attacks-in-german-bight I am sorry to have to say that the Churchill war hero you are presenting here is a fictitious character created by himself and others for as we all know, history gets written by the victors and truth is always war's first casualty. There is no honor in war, sir, only death and destruction. This 11 minutes film is called ''My Dad and my Uncle were in World War One'' please watch, and help peace now. ua-cam.com/video/yPyNod6qsxY/v-deo.html
A disappointment. Very little discussion of how Churchill influenced the Middle East -- which supposedly was subject of the presentation. Discussion of the Middle East doesn't start until 59:37. Everything before that point is just a review of the First World War.
It appears you missed the point of the lecture: showing how strategy towards the Middle East must not be viewed in isolation, but rather as part of a great power’s global interests
@@tyronebiggums8660 -- The title of the lecture is "Churchill and the Modern Middle East", not "The Great Powers' Interests in the Middle East".
@@kevinbyrne4538 Well Britain in the time of Churchill was a great power, just like America is today. And the lecture does cover Churchill at some length. But fair enough, it is not always obvious to people that something can be about more than what it is about.
And the Middle East still till today paying the price cuz of this man and his drawing map for the Middle East.
Almost nothing to do with the *Modern Middle East*
At 29:07 you say someone had to be blamed as if an innocent man was going to be wrongly executed, well, Churchill was not innocent at all, he was First Lord of the Admiralty at the time, therefore responsible for all of Britain's naval operations and the Dardanelles operation was first proposed by him, in conjunction with a landing in Schleswig-Holstein, drawing Denmark (and possibly Sweden) into the war and re-opening the Baltic Sea route to Russia. This landing never got beyond Churchill's wild scheming, it involved too many loosely-formed stages and severe risks to the Royal Navy from operating in the German Bight:
''...Churchill’s second plan was an amphibious landing on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey, on the European side of the Dardanelles. If taken swiftly and by surprise, the British would then have effective control of the Dardanelles, allowing the Royal Navy to enter the Sea of Marmara and threaten the Turkish capital of Constantinople directly. Churchill had been arguing for such a maneuver from the instant it looked likely Turkey might join the war, and by the end of 1914 was saying it should have been done at the end of November with the few Australian divisions recently arrived in Egypt.''
today-in-wwi.tumblr.com/post/106736019863/churchill-proposes-attacks-in-german-bight
I am sorry to have to say that the Churchill war hero you are presenting here is a fictitious character created by himself and others for as we all know, history gets written by the victors and truth is always war's first casualty.
There is no honor in war, sir, only death and destruction. This 11 minutes film is called ''My Dad and my Uncle were in World War One'' please watch, and help peace now.
ua-cam.com/video/yPyNod6qsxY/v-deo.html