churchill was said by general [[john dill]], the [[chief of the imperial general staff]] (cigs), to have been moved to "greater anger than he had ever seen him in before"; the incident was the beginning of the end for wavell. in 2016, andrew stewart wrote that given the exiguous nature of the british force in the colony, the defenders had done well to resist for as long as they had. the defence of british somaliland took place during the [[battle of britain]] and that the defeat could not be portrayed in heroic terms. churchill was wrong to condemn wavell and his subordinates but as minister of defence as well as prime minister, he could dictate consequences to the defeated generals. adolf hitler called the evacuation of the colony a "hard blow" but