Churchill and the Choice to Fight
IF WINSTON CHURCHILL had died in 1939, he would be remembered as a failed right-wing politician who squandered a potentially brilliant career. His calls for rearmament, eloquent though they were, had little effect. Even when all his prophecies of impending disaster came true, he was only reluctantly brought into the cabinet, and it took a string of catastrophes to make him prime minister. Why was such a Promethean figure, one seemingly ideally suited to guide Britain in its supreme crisis, so entirely marginalized until the last, most desperate, hour?1
Churchill’s vast experience before becoming prime minister poses a particularly difficult test for Leader Filtration ...
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