What Is The Failure Of Operation Catapult

Once the war had gotten its start, America began making victories. At one point, America’s confidence level was through the roof because of a few naval victories that had been made. There were three American ships which were the Constitution, the United States, and the President. Those three ships were faster, bigger and better armed than their British counterparts. Now the British had quite a few more ships in counting than America did, but their ships were vulnerable in a one-on-one fight with an

A major build up of armies in main countries resulted in the Naval Arms Race which was another main contribution to the war as it increased tension and more rivalry. The armies of Germany and France had more than doubled but it was Germany and England who were about to compete for the most powerful navy in the world the tension between the two nations had risen. Wilhelm’s dream of being an imperial ruler was about to come true, he had put his plans into practice and had built several powerful ships. The British saw this as a threat. In

Winston Churchill was the head of navy and Lord Kitchener, was the general commander of the war effort, who persuaded the attempt on the attack on the Dardanelles strait, a narrow stretched of water that linked the Aegean and Marmara Sea.

The Battle of the Marne, Plan 17 and the Race to the Sea and the defensiveness of

On September 11th 2001, the United States was hit with a devastating blow when four commercial airplanes were hijacked by Al-Qaeda terrorist who deliberately crashed two of the planes into the World Trade Center complex, and a third plane into the Pentagon. The fourth plane, headed for Washington D.C., instead crashed in Pennsylvania. Nearly 3,000 lives were lost on this egregious day. In response, President George W. Bush waged the controversial “Global War on Terrorism” which turned out to be a self-inflicted wound for America, bleeding still today. Bush’s highly-criticized decision was inconsistent with the strategic principles of war.

The general explained that “... after the Llandovery Castle was torpedoed, not a helping hand was offered to our wounded comrades” (137) and that there was “more than three hundred wounded Canadians struggling in the choppy waters of the English Channel....”(137). These words burned a picture into the minds of the soldiers. It showed the unfair and inhumane ways of the German army. The wounded soldiers with amputated limbs sunk to the bottom instantly with the salt stingy in their wounds all whilst the Germans soldiers laughed on. It was described that “... the lifeboats were sprayed by machine-gun fire ... the laughing men on the U-boat ... the amputation cases went to the bottom instantly ... they couldn't swim, poor chaps ... the salt water added to their dying agony....” (138). The general then used this to motivate the soldiers to avenge the deaths of their wounded Canadians soldiers. He said “... men, we are going into action in a few days, and we will be given an opportunity to avenge the lives of our murdered comrades ... if they choose to suspend the accepted rules for conducting civilized warfare, by

Churchill was no fool however; he knew that the situation was still dire for him and his dear country. The British were vastly outnumbered and outgunned, and the loss of the Belgian army was a great blow. The speech was given even before France surrendered to the Germans

The British plan to have their navy assist in land operations was a terrible use of their navy. This plan essentially sidelined their strongest asset. The use of the Royal navy to carry cargo and troops was very important in a logistical manner. However, they barely used them to do that.

had sunk both merchant and passenger ships without warning. Then later on Germany was trying

To start off, pearl harbor is a failure because ships were damaged, sunken, and destroyed. 1,177 crewmen killed were apart of the U.S navy band unit and also pearl harbor claimed the lives of 2,400 citizens and also wounded 1,000 people. Franklin D. Roosevelt described pearl harbor as "date which we live in infamy," because the naval battleship USS Arizona was hit four times by the Japanese bombers and also because 23 sets of brothers aboard the USS Arizona airline were killed. However, almost half the casualties on the battleship were on the USS Arizona and eventually the battleship sunk, after 70 years Arizona continues to spill up to 9 quarts of oil into the harbor each day. In conclusion, the overall attack on pearl harbor was intended

The first years of WWI, the U.S. made certain to remain out of the way. Germany’s resumption of submarine attacks on passenger and merchant ships became the primary motivation behind Wilson’s decision to lead the United States into World War I. Following the sinking of an unarmed French boat, the Sussex, in the English Channel, Wilson threatened to sever diplomatic relations with Germany unless the German Government refrained from attacking all passenger ships and allowed the crews of enemy merchant vessels to abandon their ships prior to any attack. The Germans promised that they would not sink unarmed passenger ships without warning, however, they promised twice and twice they broke their promise. Americans

Soon, the impact of German submarines and U-boats lessened and more convoys were able to successful delivery goods across the Atlantic. In 1943, the situation was overseas allies changed by better weapons and radios and more advanced technology imported form America including the infamous long range aircraft "Liberator". With the advancements and improvements made to the Allied forces, by April of the same year, U boats were clearly struggling to make any kind of impact and in addition, Allied sinkings of German submarines increased to an all-time high of 45 in a period of 2 months. Hitler, noticing the U-boats were failing, called off the battle on May 23, 1943, withdrawing all troops in the Atlantic. Overall, The Battle of the Atlantic was very important to both Britain and Germany because Britain needed to control the seas between itself ant the United States in order to be able to receive supplies from them. The Germans wanted the Atlantic because they knew that if Britain was unable to receive supplies for war, they would have to

The purpose of this paper will be the battle analysis and evaluation of Operation Fortitude (code name for deception plan to invade France) in support of Operation Overlord (code name for the Battle of Normandy and invasion of German occupied France). The analysis and evaluation will be done using the intellectual standards and the elements of reasoning to provide an alternate outcome for Operation Overlord. An alternate outcome will be suggested based on the use of deception that results in the defeat of the Allies (United States, Canada and Great Britain) at Normandy.

Iran took 52 Americans hostage on November 4, 1979. The resulting failed rescue attempt, Operation Eagle Claw, was an international embarrassment for the United States. No single event or decision resulted in the mission’s failure; instead, the failure resulted from a chain of poor decisions. This single operation highlighted the need for a dedicated special operations aviation unit dedicated to the rescue of American citizens and their repatriation. This paper discusses the global situation and some of the poor decisions that were made throughout the entirety of the mission from planning through the crash at Desert One.

The United Kingdom put its defense under review and decided to reduce the money burden their Royal Navy put on the British people (White paper, p. A-2). It was considered by their leadership that smaller platforms of ships like destroyers and frigates could handle littoral combat if needed. So, the United Kingdom decided to phase out the HMS Intrepid and the HMS Fearless (White Paper, pp.10-11). This of course didn’t work out well because the United Kingdom ended up going to war with Argentina in 1982. Through insurmountable odds, the United Kingdom’s Royal Navy, was able to piece its navy back together and make ships ready for one of the best maritime amphibious assaults ever conducted since World War