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In the prvious post I wrote:
British focus on air defence, although effective when it came to home defence, made it impossible to really commit themselves to a continental war, always retaining one foot at home, recipe for defeat in 1940.
When I add this to another Britain related subject I posted, it would not surprise me if I ruffled a few feathers. So I'll repeat my apology here as well, as this was not my intention.
One could easily argue that the recipe of defeat in 1940, is the primary ingredient of a 1944/45 victory. Without fortress Britain, europe would have been a different place today.
I must share that I was somewhat inspired by the writing of John Terraine in The Smoke and the Fire, but may have misrepresented his case.
However to be fair, one should try and build a 1940 scenario won by the Anglo-French at least to the point of a continental stalemate, without stepping to far from reality.
What should have been done or could have been done to change the outcome of 1940?
One possible answer might be a(n anglo-)french advance in 1939, but would such a move have been politically or psychologically possible?
These questions are fair as long as 1940 is portrayed as somehwat of a french failure...
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The very pulse of the machine;
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A traveller between life and death;
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