Cook
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Nope. He may have seen it as a way to restrict the size of the operation, but he's equally likely to have said no because someone else thought of it first.Do you have an answer to this question? Or even a good guess?
Does using Cyprus as a launch pad give better opperational security than Egypt?
The Turks didn’t need spies in Egypt to know what was going on (although undoubtedly there were plenty there); the Egyptian newspapers were publishing details of British and Dominion reinforcements, troop movements and preparations and there wasn’t anything the British could do about it.You can isolated an island and stop most spies. Egypt or Cyprus will be harder to keep spy free.
With even rudimentary operational security and a deception plan, basing in Alexandria could be favourable; the Turks would learn what you wanted them to know and deploy accordingly.
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