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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: i-node who wrote (881738)8/23/2015 5:00:44 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (1) of 1581778
 
Churchill was a political opponent of Chamberlain. What would you expect him to write? Even then, that part you quoted makes the point that the peacemakers are usually right.

When Great Britain declassified a lot of the pre-war information in the 1950s, historians started to reconsider Chamberlain's situation.

It is generally a bad idea to declare a war on an opponent who has military superiority over you if you can avoid it.

recognized that it prevented the Brits from entering into essential military readiness while giving Hitler time to do the opposite. From any rational point of view, it undoubtedly caused WWII to be far worse than it might have.

Total nonsense. The Brits were accelerating their war preparedness during and after the negotiations for and the signing of the Munich Pact. But they were way behind, having only started to rebuild their military a few years earlier. The Brits were just not equipped for a land war. At the time the Pact was signed, there was a grand total of 50 Hurricanes in the field and the Spifire had just entered production. So Britain was vastly over-matched in the air. Most of their tanks were WWI vintage, turreted tanks were just starting to enter their inventory. And they had not yet cut a deal with the US to have them supply them with tanks, planes, trucks and other war materiel.

If Britain had declared war on Germany over Czechoslovakia they would have lost. Badly. The Battle of Britain would have been fought in 1939 instead of 1940. And Britain likely would have lost that one too. Their Chain Home radar system was not yet in place and the Tizard Mission hadn't taken place yet.

Your ignorance of history is appalling.
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