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What if in a desperate bid to preserve empire, the British-French-Israeli pact deploys at least one UK-produced nuclear weapon against an Egyptian target(s) of tactical or strategic importance?
Maybe it's used tactically against an Egyptian army formation?What target would merit this?
Maybe it's used tactically against an Egyptian army formation?
The Egyptian navy then?There was no ground fighting worthy of the name between the British and egyptian forces
What I mean to say is, the British and French achieved their initial objectives with relatively little difficulty, and after all, the core asset in the dispute is one that they're, you know, planning to use again afterwards. This does not seem like a situation where nuclear weapons would be helpful.The Egyptian navy then?
I'm just throwing out ideas-I doubt nukes would have helped much in the endeavor.What I mean to say is, the British and French achieved their initial objectives with relatively little difficulty, and after all, the core asset in the dispute is one that they're, you know, planning to use again afterwards. This does not seem like a situation where nuclear weapons would be helpful.
This. In fact the only target worthy of such attention in the area was <drum roll> the US Navy. Maybe a little "demonstration" in the Med if the American obstructionism got too annoying?There is absolutely no conceivable reason to do this because the British, French, and Israelis manhandled the Egyptian military. They lost politically because Eisenhower and the U.N. forced them to knock it off, not on the battlefield. So using a nuke does nothing militarily but it turns their political situation from baleful to utterly toxic.
Not going to happen.
Hell no. Not without some really interesting PoD years earlier.But would Britain really be willing to do that on the U.S. Navy? Hell no.
Yep. You could go with a scenario where the UK call's Eisenhower's bluff, only to find he's not bluffing...As said earlier, Britain, France & Israel achieved their initial objectives so that was out the window. Plus the U.S. intervened because Egypt was going to be an ally of Saudi Arabia, of whom the U.S. was courting as an ally. No matter how you swung it, unless the U.K. and France was willing to go its own way (which the latter did...sorta). It had no choice but to climb down and accept Egyptian control of the Suez.
Just. Not. Going. To. Happen.
Total ASB.
Having just read a book on suez, given the clusterf*ck at the political level in Britain, I severely doubt they would have been able to agree a target if the decision had been taken. Which it wouldn’t, to clarify.