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How a successful Dardanelles campaign could matter

Dardanelles success would contribute to a larger chain of strategic consequences without becoming an instant war-winning event.

Question

Would a successful Dardanelles campaign significantly change the course of World War I?

Short answer

A single decisive transformation is unlikely, but the campaign's cumulative effects could become one of the pressures that materially alter the war.

Notes

Success in the Dardanelles would not automatically decide the war. It could still add important cumulative pressure, one of many changes whose combined effect might become significant even if the immediate result remained limited.