“Nobody can organize military disasters as well as do the Brits.”
Don’t be so modest. The Dieppe raid doesn’t even compare to the magnitude of Pearl Harbour or Vietnam.
“Such was the day for our regiment,
Dread the revenge we will take.
Dearly we paid for the blunder
A drawing-room General’s mistake.
“Why weren’t we told of the trenches?
Why weren’t we told of the wire?
Why were we marched up in column,
May Tommy Atkins enquire…”