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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: combjelly who wrote (977864)11/2/2016 2:07:23 PM
From: koan  Read Replies (1) of 1575709
 
Thank you. That makes sense, but was a hole in my knowledge.

<Chamberlain was stupid, he did not read the situation correctly. It had nothing to do with decency at all.

Realize that this opinion is from Winston Churchill. Who was a bitter opponent of Chamberlain. When people started to analyze Chamberlain's decisions in the 1950s, opinions of those who had actual information started to change.

Chamberlain was in an untenable situation. It had nothing to do with stupidity. The reality is that if Britain had gone to war with Germany over Czechoslovakia, Britain likely would have lost. France was not willing to commit help and the UK had just started on their rebuilding program after putting their military on hold through out the Great Depression. They had a 10 year plan to re-equip their military, but hadn't gotten very far. The Germans had massive air superiority, the Brits had just a few Spitfires and Hurricanes. Not a few hundred even, but a handful since the Spitfire had been in production only a few weeks at the time. And that was the same across their whole military.

Not to mention the expectation that gas warfare would be used. The estimates were up to a third of the population would be killed if Germany attacked Britain with gas.

So the Brits were looking at being poorly equipped, fighting a land war with an unreliable supply chain and likely no allies. His generals told him that they would get stomped if they fought Germany at that time and place. So the only rational choice was to buy time. Which he did. About a year later, Chamberlain declared war, taking advantage of the time to greatly accelerate preparations for war. Even then, they were still well behind where the Germans were.

Chamberlain knew all to well what the situation was. His options were very limited.
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