The Germans took France by suprise by going through Belgium. Belgium fought well. i'm not sure what battles were before dunkirk but couldnt the British have supplied more men use the navy and RAF to slow down or halt the blitzkrieg. any ideas.
That's pretty much what they did try and do. Huge resources were commited prior to Dunkirk in men & materiel, sadly it failed leaving Great Britain to largely start from scratch at re-equipping their Army with heavy and motorised equipment. Cheers, Adam.
so what failed we had a big navy the RAF wasnt that small and around 400,000 men plus the french and Belgium.
What failed (in my opinion) was almost any attempt to stop the exceptionally well-organised and forceful German Army. The French Army was one of the worlds largest (largest?) and was still swept aside. So many men so poorly handled seems hard to believe now but I really believe the nature of the German attackers was an entirely 'new' face of warfare that the allies were singularily unprepared for both in Doctrine and up to date command ability. Germanies tanks and equipment were not at that point much better than the allied ones (In fact I'd say France fielded some of the best designs of the 30's) but they were wielded with a far higher degree of Military imagination than the rather hide-bound allies could muster. Seems to me that one of the greatest achievements of the war was in the realisation and to a greater or lesser extent, rectification of many of these allied faults. Cheers, Adam
