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Landings Were Been Around Since The Revolutionary War

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Amphibious landings have been around since the Revolutionary War. The main purpose has always been for landings; in order, to position soldiers for an assault on a city. Amphibious assaults, however, have never actually been executed until World War 1. During that time a need for a thorough amphibious assault doctrine was not needed because amphibious landings were not carried out to assault the enemy on the beachhead, and landings were usually met with little resistance. One of the first and foremost amphibious assaults occurred during World War 1. This amphibious operation is known as the Battle of Gallipoli, which ended as a major failure for the Australian and New Zealand Coalition forces, or ANZAC forces. The Battle of Gallipoli …show more content…

The ANZAC had to control the Dardanelles by capturing the Gallipoli peninsula from Turkey, in order to capture Constantinople and control the Strait of Bosporus. 2 However, the amphibious assault on Gallipoli was a major disaster for the ANZAC and its allied forces. Many mistakes were made because the ANZAC did not plan the amphibious assault well. The first mistake that was made was that the ANZAC landing forces landed one mile north of the landing site. 3 This was a problem because the landing force would have to change their course of direction, in order to get to the correct landing site, which would waste precious time. This was also a problem because the direction they were going to land at was an area with open cliffs rather than the open beach and countryside that was intended. Further, the ANZAC forces did not adequately plan, how efficiently they were too move off the beachhead, which poised as a potential kill zone. The initial problem was that getting out of the landing crafts was problematic.4 The terrain under the shore posed a problem for many soldiers getting off the beaches because it slowed them down. Many ANZAC soldiers drowned or died disembarking their landing crafts. The ANZAC troops crowded the beaches, once they landed. The ANZAC soldiers could not exit the beaches because not only were the beaches chaotic with the amassed troops but also the maps that the ANZAC soldiers were outdated and were utterly useless. In addition,

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