From fairly soon after Dunkirk, Churchill ordered the creation of the Commando brigades. Their exploits, successes and failures are well known, however, most of the time they operated in countries with friendly, or at least not hostile, local populace where at some basic support could have been had when needed.
However, let's say that for whatever reason country X, which has an accessible coastline to the raiding party is fully hostile to the raiding force and let's assume they are expecting, however unlikely at this point, a hostile invasion, how feasible would a raid against a fixed point without air or naval support be?
If at all? I think I have a pretty good idea of some of the obstacles they would face on infiltration, air and sea patrols while in transit, troop patrols once, (if), landed, potential discovery by local population, Murphy's intervention, etc, would it actually be worth it, even just for propaganda?
However, let's say that for whatever reason country X, which has an accessible coastline to the raiding party is fully hostile to the raiding force and let's assume they are expecting, however unlikely at this point, a hostile invasion, how feasible would a raid against a fixed point without air or naval support be?
If at all? I think I have a pretty good idea of some of the obstacles they would face on infiltration, air and sea patrols while in transit, troop patrols once, (if), landed, potential discovery by local population, Murphy's intervention, etc, would it actually be worth it, even just for propaganda?