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Agree.

Currently reading Churchill's account of WW2.

He strengthened both the will of the British, the hardware needs of its military, and that was an extraordinary task which he accomplished in the nick of time, just as the Battle of Britain began.

Had he not done so, and had Britain been forced into a truce (or worse) by Germany after the fall of France, then it is quite possible Hitler's planned conquest of Britain would have been successful.

Churchill's persistence, organizational genius, and huge geopolitical and historical brainpower made him the savior of Europe. Largely this was his ability to anticipate enemies' moves long before they acted. (Was this quality of his the result of the hard lessons of Gallipoli?)

Fortunately, Hitler was too euphoric from his early prodigious sucesses, and he foolishly attempted to conquer Russia while still maintaining his western front. It obviously was too much, too fast.We were actually lucky that Churchill had the supreme judgment to anticipate exactly what Hitler would do, and scare enough Britons into doubletime preparing for the Island's defense.

Indeed we are all lucky that he did what he did.

Churchill certainly failed with Gallipoli, but he more than made up for it by saving Europe, with our help of course.

Sorry for the length and the Captain Obviousness of the above, but people now just assume that victory in WW2 was a foregone conclusion.

When I was a teenager my dad, who was born in 1920, lived in DC and served in the Navy during WW2, said that initially, lots of young men in his neighborhood were killed at the start of the war, and there was grave concern about Germany and Japan being victorious.

We certainly need to re-cultivate that pre-and-early-war Churchillian mindset now, even though the war we are currently engaged in is like the slow onset of WW2: The Phony War of 1939-40 very much resembles the current 'pre-kinetic' phase of our war with the Internationale which we now are involved in --and hopefully are awakening to.