Although agreeing that Crete was a pyrrhic victory for the Germans, I'm not entirely convinced that is was dumb before the event, even though it certainly was afterward.

The Germans misjudged the reaction of the local populace ( sounds familiar... ) and the way things worked out, Crete became a strategic backwater. Not sure that these problems would have been too apparent when the decision was taken to attack.

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