Was Henry VIII's Foreign Policy a failure?

Failure - First French War 1512 to 1513 - Parliament allowed the war because Henry portrayed it as a "papal war" and so the Duke of Dorset led 12,000 troops to gain control of Aquitaine, a region in the southwest of France. His father-in-law, Ferdinand II of Aragon, as he wanted to use the English troops as a diversion so that he could capture Navarre. The English troops were engulfed with dysentery and drunkenness and were recalled. They also suffered a naval defeat at Brest in April 1513

Failure for Henry - The Anglo-French Treaty 1514 - Henry was forced to make peace with France when Ferdinand and Maximilian had lost interest in attacking France…