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About bombing the Meuse bridges? I didn't say it was a bad idea. I meant that in this what-if scenario that the RAF would have been free to do other things.
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Not critical
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As far as all of Germany's other advantages: their transportation system ended at the border (and the autobahn wouldn't have been much help)
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Absolutely help in getting forces across Germany from Poland and poised for the assault into France, are you forgetting they're still in Germany before crossing the border. It allows for quick movement of units and supplies to those jump off points as well as logistics from factories to marshalling sectors. It was the reason Hitler built them in the first place.
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their artillery was inferior to the French,
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How? By what criteria? Some examples please.
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and their airborne capabilities were not so great (see Crete).
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France was all done by the time of Merkur(In just over a month wasn't it), Airborne operations were very sucessfull in Norway, France, the Low Countries and Greece before Kreta.
Crete was difficult because of many things not previously encountered mainly about twice as many enemy combatants as the Germans counted on as well as a fierce partisan and Greek regular contingent, quickly did away with the 3 to 1 rule. The scope of the operation was too vast and was bound to result in casualties due to inadequate fire support prep. Yet Crete has nothing to do with the previous capable ability of the Fallschirmjäger in the French Campaign, Eban Emal proved that fixed fortifications could be neutralized by airborne.
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The French high command was not completely inept and actually did figure out a decent counterstrike plan, though too little too late. Against Italy the French did just fine.
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That's academic and not supportive of your argument/commentary. Italy wasn't the country the French needed to worry about
