IMHO, the Bismarck WAS a waste of German marks. Any fleet-type surface ship (even aircraft carriers) were a waste for Germany except destroyers...
Every post about Politics, about Verdun, about The Maginot Line mentality, about Gamelin, about French indifference, every one of those posts are...
Getting back on task here, ahemmm...it seems to me that even if the BEF is captured, it doesn't make all that much difference for the invasion of...
Given the state of affairs and the production capacities of both the USSR and the USA, the only way Germany would have achieved parity was jet...