Editor’s Note: This is the first in a running series of essays by Iskander Rehman, entitled “Applied History,” which seeks, through the study of the history of strategy and military operations, to better illuminate contemporary defense challenges. [I]t remains astonishing to me that we should have failed to make Suda Bay the amphibious citadel of which all Crete was the fortress.
Everything was understood and agreed, and much was done; but all was half-scale effort. We were presently to pay heavily for our shortcomings.” – Winston Churchill, reminiscing on the loss of Crete and its immense natural harbor, Suda Bay.The post Britain’s Strange Defeat: The 1941 Fall of Crete and Its Lessons for Taiwan appeared first on War on the Rocks.