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> These decisions were likely made on far more more factors than one of purely material. That's the same point the author is making: If the decision was made b
by DenisM 6y ago
> These decisions were likely made on far more more factors than one of purely material.
That's the same point the author is making: If the decision was made based on logistics the war would have to have started in 1938. So the decision was made on something else and only rationalized later with the "time to prepare" argument.
- Guthur 6y agoYes, I was being a little unfair to the author. Though I'm actually not convince there is any prevaling narrative that the goal of appeasement was rearmament, most narratives are that it was born from a policy of pacifism with a desire for geniunely avoiding a conflict that some in the UK felt could not be sustained. Churchill was very much a Hawk all through the 1930s and was pretty much ignored, Chamberlain was Dove through and through not playing some game buying time for a decisive strike.