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Old 26-06-17, 11:34
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I really don't think that was an option. In the time a sufficient UK/French force was mobilised in France to act as aggressors (popular support for such action would have been zero) in a first attack, the Germans would have had their act together and Dunkirk would have been an even greater disaster.

Remember it took the whole world to beat them twice in 25 years. Very few major engagements undertaken by the Germans in the entire war saw them as the largest or best equipped force (including the French blitzkrieg).

When you take on what is arguably the best fighting nation since the Romans, or at least Genghis Khan, (regardless of the cause or morality) you have got to have your act together as we, particularly the Russians, painfully discovered. Even for the Germans you eventually run out of people. As they said in WW1 "God is on the side of the big battalions!"

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