What should Britain have done instead, or how should it have

Shouldn't have pussied out at Munich.

They did stay, thats why they were btfo so hard hitler had to tell his armored divisions to sit still for 3 days so the brits could evacuate, thinking the perfidious brits will take this as a merciful hitler and sign peace they instead took the opportunity and holed up on their island and waited for america to come into the picture so they can crawl out of their bomb shelters and firebomb german civilians.

>>2001543
This plus the Brits didn't actually give a fuck about France other than being worried about having a nazi controlled nation so close by.

>>2001526
>What should Britain have done instead, or how should it have approached the situation differently to prevent this and save France earlier?


There's so many little things that it's almost impossible to know where to start. In no particular order:

>Actually get Bomber command to work with the army. There's nothing wrong with being "flying artillery"
>Get your damn heads out of your damn asses when it comes to tank doctrine. Tanks are not principally to be countered with cruiser tanks, who have shit armor in any case. That's what fucking anti-tank guns are for
>Yes, you really should communicate between different branches of the armed forces. Do some cross training so that your infantrymen and artillerymen and tank crews have some idea what each other's jobs are.
>There's nothing wrong with calling in artillery support from French guns or to French positions. You guys are on the same side and everything.

>Was it even possible for Britain to stop Germany defeating France or would staying and fighting have only destroyed both nations instead of one?

Well, no, not really. If France was to be saved, you probably needed different French decisions, not principally different British decisions, either in army organization, or not letting the Mechlen incident pass; a French army entrenched in Belgium in mid-February changes the picture drastically.

But staying and fighting would have gotten the BEF slaughtered, but that probably wouldn't have destroyed the British. Stung them, to be sure, but 10 divisions more or less wouldn't be crippling.

>>2001543
>they were btfo so hard hitler had to tell his armored divisions to sit still for 3 days so the brits could evacuate, thinking the perfidious brits will take this as a merciful hitler and sign peace

When will naziboos stop with this meme?
The halt happened because German lines were overextended and German generals fieared something like the First Marne could happen again
When the short halt was over, the German offensive continued in full force, and had it not been for the French rearguard (which the German did not expenct to be so resilient), the evacuation would've been prevented, regardless of the halt

>>2001543

>muh Hitler wasn't a massively incompetent fuckwit, he LET the BEF escape! It was all part for his master scheme to make peace with Britain but the eternal Anglo wouldn't let him!!!!
>Disregard that he could have avoided a war with Britain altogether if he hadn't invaded Poland.
>Disregard that he completely disowned Hess, had him branded insane and ordered his immediately execution if he ever returned, for trying to make peace with the British.

crazy

>>2001563
>If France was to be saved, you probably needed different French decisions, not principally different British decisions

This
No one claims it was Britain's responsability to save France or that they could have
When people call out Brits about Dunkirk, it's not because they didnt save France, it's because they have the guts to boast about the whole thing and sometimes even mock the French, without realizing that they themselves were just as pathetic as them, if not more, during that shitshow

>>2001584
>>muh Hitler wasn't a massively incompetent fuckwit, he LET the BEF escape! It was all part for his master scheme to make peace with Britain but the eternal Anglo wouldn't let him!!!!
This is true early in the war

>Disregard that he could have avoided a war with Britain altogether if he hadn't invaded Poland.
Didn't actually think britian would bat an eye to it and was partially right as they did fuck all to stop it.

>Disregard that he completely disowned Hess, had him branded insane and ordered his immediately execution if he ever returned, for trying to make peace with the British.

Source?

>>2001627
>Didn't actually think britian would bat an eye to it and was partially right as they did fuck all to stop it.
They all but sent a letter with the header "Get the fuck out of here with that shit."
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/wwii/blbk17.asp

>If Poland is attacked, we will join the war with all the power we have available. France too. Do not do it, you fucking idiot.

Between doing it and not doing it the obvious was choice, but Hitler was too hyped on the smell of his own shit to realize that there could ever be any long term negative consequences to war.

>>2001655
I apologize, you are correct. I forgot Hitler told the brits to fuck off when there were talks off what to do with the Danzig corridor because he wanted a full blown war with the entirety of Poland.

If I recall he did think the Brits were bluffing and would be too exhausted by the first world war to really bother with a war over Poland.

not to say he didn't clearly want a war for the new germany he was building but I still think at that time he didn't want/expect Britian to get involved over Poland.

>>2001655
>Between doing it and not doing it the obvious was choice
The choice isn't that obvious when you realize that the Nazi economy was horribly unsustainable and required plunder from conquest to keep afloat.

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>>2001543
>americans saving the british
Well memed, friend