Dave in St. Louis
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Mostlyharmless has a thread in which he states - "Everyone loves a successful Sealion as it is the only military way to achieve German victory in WW2 after 3rd September 1939."
Rather than hijack his thread, I decided to start another to present the argument that this may not the case.
Herman Wouk has Armin von Roon make the case (in War And Remembrance) that a southern or Mediterranean strategy would have worked as well. "von Roon" argues that doing the hard dirty work of cutting off the Med and concentrating on taking Malta and Gibraltar can lead to victory in North Africa and the Middle East - cutting England off from India and from Middle Eastern oil.
The claim is made that Raeder made a case for taking Gibraltar in 1940.
Rather than hijack his thread, I decided to start another to present the argument that this may not the case.
Herman Wouk has Armin von Roon make the case (in War And Remembrance) that a southern or Mediterranean strategy would have worked as well. "von Roon" argues that doing the hard dirty work of cutting off the Med and concentrating on taking Malta and Gibraltar can lead to victory in North Africa and the Middle East - cutting England off from India and from Middle Eastern oil.
The claim is made that Raeder made a case for taking Gibraltar in 1940.