Ka cika wannan furcin: Wani ɗan tarihi mai suna Correlli Barnett ya kwatanta ayyukan da sojojin ruwa suka yi don mamaye ƙasar a matsayin "aikin da aka tsara da kyau sosai". A cikin overall umurnin shi ne Birtaniya Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay, wanda ya yi aiki a matsayin Flag jami'in a Dover a lokacin Dunkirk kwashe shekaru hudu a baya. Ya kuma kasance mai alhakin shirin jirgin ruwa na mamaye Arewacin Afirka a shekarar 1942, kuma daya daga cikin jiragen ruwa biyu da ke dauke da sojoji don
mamayewar Sicily a shekara mai zuwa.