The Great Adventure

World War One was a period of momentous change:

changes in tactics driven by startling changes in technology.

Many of these changes were clearly signaled in the

Russo-Japanese War (and even as far back as the American

Civil war), yet European armies chose to ignore these

portents of change. Early attempts to break the western

front stalemate saw exciting strategic initiates such as the

Dardanelles landings, now seen as a monumental failing of

western arms and a great victory for Turkish arms. As a

result the strategic innovation represented by this campaign

is often ignored, even though Sir Basil Liddell-Hart would

have been proud of its strategic intent.

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