Rich wrote:For starters Britain had a huge investment in its strategic bomber force. That did little to stem the German knock oout of Poland, Benelux, Norway and France.
And how strategic bomber force were supposed to do that on their own?
Britain and France had a huge combined Navy, which failed to stop Swedish ore supplies and the German occupation of Norway.
If not for France, Germany would had lost Norway, the allies had to redeploy from Norway because of German invasion of France and while gloating over this supposedly great German success you completely failed to notice the geography of the region which meant that German navy was always in cover of Luftwaffe and friendly mines and even then it was a big failure for kms which still managed to loose half of her invasion fleet (and 1/3 of her total surface fleet) to allied action. Yeah, some success.
France had a huge investment in the Maginot line whose strategic value proved limited. So yes the resources hugely favoured the allies.
lol, what? This doesn't follow at all, among all major things related to war-materials (except oil) be it coal, steel, aluminium, Germany was ahead of GB and France and either ahead of them combined (marginally) or behind but only marginally.
The expectation at the beginning of September 1939 was for a grinding war of attrition which the German's would almost certainly lose.
Yes, everyone expected a long grinding war but no it was not expected that Germany would
certainly lose. Do you really think so low of Germans that they went to a war knowing that they will lose?
Yes in May 1940 the Germans deployed twice as many aircraft, but this was not an expectation.
Whose expectations you are talking about now? Allies or Germans or everyone? If only allies then believe me Germans also didn't expected many things they faced in field of battle during French campaign.
Germany was heavily outnumbered overall in terms of numbers planes. It was even more outnumbered by weight of planes or total aircrew of planes.
Completely and utterly false. You have any source for that at all? The fact is that Luftwaffe superiority in numbers was so complete that she also acted as artillery detachment of the army and even then during BoB maintained superiority in numbers while taking almost double the causality, only at the end of BoB did Britan started to gain parity in numbers.
No one not even Manstein expected such a quick knock out but Germany didn't have the ammunition reserves, let alone the replacement equipment or the production capacity to support a sustained campaign.
Oh, no one expected such quick result and Germany did had the production capacity as you know the big bloody eastern front shows.
Finally your claim that everyone thought that German victory was impossible or that it was some sort of miracle is laughably wrong.