STRATEGY & TACTICS QUARTERLY #34: Sealion, Lost Opportunity or Disaster Averted?

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Examines the inception, planning, preparations, and likelihood of success of Operation Sealion. The invasion will also be placed in the larger context of the war, to include the possibility the invasion was a bluff, either to push Britain to the negotiating table or distract the Soviet Union, plus proposed alternatives for defeating Britain such as the aero-naval blockade of Britain and Grand Admiral Raeder's Mediterranean strategy.