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Originally Posted by Falcon Jun
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Now I respectfully disagree to the views aired that a country without any amphibious ops experience cannot learn how to do it. It's not out of the realm of possibility for Germany to learn how. The problem would be on how they would go about in learning the basics of it.
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The problem[/b]s[/b] with sea lion is that they are starting big with jury rigged equipment, without air superiority, with a huge naval inferiority, and at best a quickly vanishing local superiority on the beaches.
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... plus a little creative thinking, another way could have been found to mount an invasion of England within the resources available for Germany. Of course, I say this in the context that Barbarossa will not be mounted.
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It also must assume that the Soviets don't attack Germany in the intervening years.
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The basics of the plan I think that might be workable:
Germany raises the scuttled French fleet and use it.
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Even the combined German and French fleet is inadequate vs the RN. Just what ships are you talking about raising? Also incorproating French ships into the km is going to throw a lot more manufacturing and logistics problems into the works.
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A sustained aerial campaign on British bases and installations in England (ignore the cities) while developing better aircraft to deal with the RAF.
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The LW was destroying itself in the BOB. Continueing to do so is hardly going to improve the situation.
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Germany military observers study the ongoing Pacific campaign. They could learn a lot from it. That's not impossible to do.
In short, invading England is not out of the realm of possibility. I wouldn't say this would succeed but it would increase Germany's chances of succeeding.
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They might indeed learn a lot from the Pacific. Whether this would be enough to give up on an invasion of England is another matter. I doubt in any case that they could achieve the capability to invade prior to the allies achieving a nuclear capability.