 Generals such as Sir William Robertson were critical of Kitchener's failure to ask the General Staff (whose chief James Wolfe-Murray was intimidated by Kitchener) to study the feasibility of any of these campaigns.These operations were certainly feasible, but assumed a level of competence that the British armed forces proved unable to achieve at that time.Tactical incompetence in the Gallipoli campaign mean that even a fairly straight forward task ended in disaster.