Since Napoleon's defeat in 1815 at Waterloo in Belgium, the British Empire began playing the "Great Game" in earnest. Britain's great unipolar moment had arrived, and she had the motive and the means to take full advantage of the opportunity if she played the "Game" for keeps. The designation "Great Game" alluded to the geo-strategic rivalry between the British Empire and the Czarist (Russian) Empire for control of Central and Southern Asia from circa 1815 until the latter period of the 19th Century. The region is still considered to be the most strategically important piece of real estate on the planet, not just because of the geography itself, but also because of what's in the ground.
After the seemingly inexorable rise of Germany in the wake of that country's unification in 1871, a few of England's ruling elites became unnerved by the threat this development ostensibly heralded for Britain's global supremacy and most importantly, its ability to maintain pole position in the Old World Order. At all costs and by whatever means, Britain was utterly, ruthlessly determined no country (or alliance of countries) would threaten her designation as the Empire du jour, the one on which it was famously said "the sun never set".
Accordingly , circa 1890 especially, Germany's remarkable economic, technological and industrial growth -- along with its military expansion and presumed imperial ambitions -- would become Britain's sole foreign policy obsession, albeit one more malevolent than 'magnificent'.
It was in this milieu that the Secret Elites first came together in 1891 to plot the Empire's trajectory, one that would ultimately lead to the Great War. The "Great Game" was still on, but the chief rival -- if not the endgame -- had changed. Such was their resolve, the Secret Elites had already 'prophesied' that not only was war with the Teutonic upstart inevitable, they embarked on a mission from God, King, Country and Empire to ensure that that prophesy became self-fulfilling.
The goal here then was nothing less than crushing Germany before it got out of the imperial starting gate. As it turned out Germany didn't see it coming. This itself is no small indication the country's own imperial ambitions such as they were, were not as ambitious nor as threatening as the Secret Elites made out at the time, nor as the history books would have us all believe. If all this sounds unnervingly familiar, that's because it probably is, a point to which we will return.
The Dispensable Pawns of Empire
As for the war itself, it was the Gallipoli campaign in 1915 that at once reveals the hidden agenda of the Secret Elites in bringing about the war. At the same time it showcases much of the central narrative about how and on what basis it was conducted thereafter. Whilst aptly described by one Aussie Gallipoli veteran Charles Watkins as an "amateurish, do-it-yourself co*k-up", doubtless Watkins and his fellow Diggers (veterans) were unaware said "co*k-up" was never meant to succeed from the off, and probably remained so until their dying day.
From the perspective of the Secret Elites, we might safely say the "failure" of the Gallipoli campaign was one of the most successful gambits of the war. Simply put, the whole endgame of the disastrous Gallipoli campaign was designed to fail. It was initiated by the British to hoodwink their Russian allies into thinking they had a chance of defeating the Turks and [of] taking Constantinople, thus acquiring their long desired warm water port and theretofore facilitating their own expansionist ambitions. This was something the Great Gamers in Whitehall never had any intention of allowing. It was all a ruse to keep the Czarist regime from suing for peace, as by November 2014, having already lost over a million men, the Russians realized they had bitten off much more than they could chew. As Docherty and Macgregor point out in a post on their blog,
"If Russia had gained access to the Mediterranean, the Black Sea fleet might at some future point sail to the Suez Canal and threaten the life-line to India. That was utterly....inconceivable. The British Empire could have been seriously threatened if Constantinople was in Russian hands. No British government could have survived in power if it surrendered Constantinople as a consequence of a secret deal." [My emphasis]
In short the whole Gallipoli thing had nothing directly to do with the overarching strategy of winning the war; indeed, it had everything to do with prolonging it. Given what followed for the next three and a half years -- not to mention the long-term blowback from the war overall -- the implications of this alone are staggering. One imagines that if any of the Aussie and New Zealand Diggers who survived this campaign (and indeed the longer war), had ever been apprised of the real backstory behind its genesis, most would have had singular difficulty believing it. Doubtless they'd have been appalled even more so to discover the lengths to which the Secret Elites -- the Empire's self appointed praetorian guard -- went both in the planning stages and during the Gallipoli campaign itself to guarantee that it failed.
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