Friday, February 15, 2008
War in the West
Lack of planning and preparation caused problems for the Allies as Germans advanced on them in the War in the West. Each country had their own idea of how the war should be fought. Cries of wolf created false expectations for the Allies about the Germans, and this caused confusion when the real attacks came. When Germany attacked Holland and Belgium the Allies lacked coordination to hold the Germans back. I think that if the Allied countries had worked together and planned better they could have been more effective. What would have happened if the Allies had done this?
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Chances are good that the war would have quickly bogged down, and become a slam fest that the Germans may have won anyway. But they would lose irreplaceable men and material doing so, and probably wouldn't have been able to wrap up France quite so well. The Resistance would have been better equipped and organized from the beginning.
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