London, England, in the third-floor conference room of the Navy Department Building, the Minister of the Army, the Minister of the Navy, and a group of young naval officers including General Winter engaged in heated discussions about the Dardanelles Sea Battle.
"We should stop this operation!" General Winter expressed his viewpoint during the meeting: "This plan might have had a chance of success at the beginning, but now it has failed. We must acknowledge this result. Trying to commit more forces and resources to a battle with almost no hope of winning is more like gambling rather than waging war!"
The young officers supported Shire's viewpoint, as they had always believed that the plan to win a war and force a country to surrender solely relying on the navy was unrealistic; this era had passed.
