The assessment is that the naval attack came close, but that no commander would accept the losses required to continue with the ships as prepared. That tension between a promising strategic objective and unacceptable risk makes Gallipoli a frustrating counterfactual. A successful operation is imagined to bring the Ottoman Empire out of World War I. That would free the forces committed against it for service elsewhere.
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A Gallipoli victory and Ottoman withdrawal
A successful Gallipoli operation is imagined to remove the Ottoman Empire from World War I and release the forces fighting it.