On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:16:58 -0500, Alexander
wrote:

Andrew Swallow wrote:
Ken S. Tucker wrote:
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I was told the Nazi's could have easily taken England, no sweat.
What saved England is Hitler didn't write up an invasion in Mein
Kampf, if he had a pencil and added footnotes, Brits would be
goose-stepping and the Scots would be wearing underwear.
Ken

A country can have a big army or a big navy but not both. (Britain
is still paying for the Napoleonic Wars when she tried having both.)
To invade Britain a country needs both. Germany had a big army but only
a medium sized navy. With war in France, Scandinavia and later USSR
Germany could not deploy a large number of troops against Britain for
long. Germany's air force was not significantly larger than Britain's
so it could not be used as an equaliser. The Empire gave Britain
a big advantage in man power and resources that could not be bombed.
Once the UK had chosen to fight a long war to even draw with Britain
Germany would have had to give up its plans to conquer eastern Europe.
There is no easy German victory there.

Andrew Swallow

You are dreaming. Very few War Historians believe that the English Lion
would not succumb in the event Germany had turned to England rather then
Russia.

I would like a reference for that rather remarkable statement.


Peter Skelton