Yes, 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,

Yes, 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.