[pierrem15]

One quarter million lost in the Gallipoli campaign.... which could have been successful if the Brits had quickly followed up on their initial successes.

And the British Navy managed to screw up the Anzio landing a quarter century later in the same way: uncoordinated and ill-timed shore bombardment that failed to provide adequate landing support.

[dfwgator]

Not to mention “Operation Market Garden”.

[Rummyfan]

And the British Navy managed to screw up the Anzio landing a quarter century later in the same way: uncoordinated and ill-timed shore bombardment that failed to provide adequate landing support.

The Royal Army performed very very well against Third World forces in the late twentieth century around the world (Kitchener of Khartoum, K of K, for example). But beginning with the Boer War I think its leadership was exposed as sclerotic, hidebound, and either unable or unwilling to adapt to new developing tactics and technologies. And In World War I that cost many many Commonwealth lives.