EU as joke (modified)

In article , "tadaa" wrote:

I don't think that they had a crystal ball to see the future. There was
no
reason to expect the fast fall of France and BEF.

Except for looking at what had happened in Spain a few years earlier.

Ah, the blitzkrieg of Spain is it?

No, the use of airpower and other tactics. Spain was a warmup for
German techniques a few years later.

Read up on the Spanish Civil War.

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I don't think that they had a crystal ball to see the future. There
was
no
reason to expect the fast fall of France and BEF.

Except for looking at what had happened in Spain a few years earlier.

Ah, the blitzkrieg of Spain is it?

No, the use of airpower and other tactics. Spain was a warmup for
German techniques a few years later.

Read up on the Spanish Civil War.

The Spanish civil war lasted years 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939. New equipment and
tactics were tested, but it was a long war. I wouldn't say that that Spanish
civil war was a direct indication that France and British troops would be so
quickly overrun.

So how about that navy question, what European nations could have used a
larger navy?

In article , "tadaa" wrote:

So how about that navy question, what European nations could have used a
larger navy?

The ones with coastlines. Even if they couldn't take part in the fairly
obvious upcoming ground war, they could help support the rest of the
world in shutting down Germany's navies and make it easier to retake the
continent.

Most of Europe's complete lack of preparation for WWII is plainly
documented and bloody obvious to the rest of us...

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