"If this operation fails, it will bring far less than what we had at the beginning."

An operation that could have ended the War early, failed.

And if I had this cold feeling, the operation in most cases failed too.

The first operation on an old woman failed, as she died.

The operation failed to fix the problem, and he died early in the morning on 10 February 1962.

A first operation failed, but the second attempt at the end of 1941 eventually proved successful.

However the operation failed when the prison was found not to contain any prisoners.

The operation failed to detect any trace of the child.

Other British operations that were part of the plan also failed.

If that operation had failed, what picture would we have seen, if any?