或许,导致美国内战不必要的延长的其中一个最重要的失误是选举杰姆斯·沃尔夫·里普利(James Wolfe Ripley)担任联邦军械首领。大家公认的保守人士,里普利始终阻止为联邦购买更好武器的行动,通常声称是因为它们太贵了。他尤其抗拒购买后装枪,认为联邦使用的无膛线步枪已经足够好了。但是,事实证明,它们并没有。里普利最大的缺点之一就是自负。一位副官建议购买一批英国打算廉价抛售的恩菲尔德式步枪,几乎是白送的。里普利认为美国向他们的宿敌求助是不可思议的。他还预言冲突几个月内就会结束。随后,他会后悔做出该预言的,因为南部联盟军购买了英国的枪支,还在此战争的早期战场中利用这些枪支向联邦发出战争叫嚣。最后,里普利在1863年被撤职了——足足当了两年联邦的眼中钉。
7 Unsynchronized Watches Bogged Down The Allies’ Gallipoli Campaign
7、未同步的手表使同盟国的加里波利之战陷入僵局
In this disastrous World War I campaign, Allied forces tried to secure the strait along the Gallipoli peninsula to open a route with Russia. Instead, they got an extremely grueling eight-month static battle that saw hundreds of thousands of dead Allied and Ottoman forces. One stupefying reason why the Allies suffered such a high casualty rate was due to their simple failure of synchronizing their watches. In one operation during the campaign, Allied naval forces ended the bombardment a full seven minutes early, allowing the Turks plenty of time to regroup in their trenches. As a result, more than half of the 600 Australians sent to charge the enemy ended up dead or wounded as Turkish fire mowed them down. Eventually, the stalemate and high casualty rate forced the Allies to pull out from the campaign, resulting in a huge Ottoman victory. Speaking of wrong time . . .
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