To quote World War II, Germany easily conquered France, but lost the French Navy and had to deal with a massive resistance effort.
Yep, that's why hoping to get their navy by land operation is very optimistic at least
We have our air forces and if we are obviously planning a land war then they may well not mobilise their entire navy. It is of limited use, Morovia is already harassing our supply lines, so they can keep their navy on the defensive. It is quite possible that we could still surprise them with a mine-heavy air attack and make their major docking facilities unusable without a particularly violent confrontation.
Do you prefer to conquer them in a long, hard war and get real resistance ?(Sorry, but French resistance is not massive by any means. Look at Yugoslavia for the example of massive resistance )
If it means that their people will think of us as people rather than monsters, then yes, without hesitation.
let them prepare and mobilise, they almost certainly already have
[sarcasm] Sure, they are mobilized all years long since our first battles with Morovia... And concentrated all forces on our border, ignoring all others [/sarcasm]
If they are going to ignore their border with Morovia then they are already in a very close alliance. Which is precisely why we can't just attack them. Morovia launched a poorly-justified attack because they could, now our neighbour can't afford to trust them. So they are not going to ignore all other borders. They are, quite literally, right in the middle of a war. The idea that they do not have the majority of their forces ready to deploy is ridiculous.
Germany lost because most of the world disliked what they were doing. We want to win the war of ideology, and that means acting with honour...
Attacking the country only to get to another country is a bad boy move, surprise or not
When they are effectively supporting a blockade against us? When we can reasonably argue that they are permitting enemy submarines to use their territorial waters? When we offer to pay them to lease us a land-bridge to Morovia and they refuse on principal? There is a lot for us to work with here on the propaganda front. There is little reason not to surprise them with the speed and ability of our forces, and there should be plenty of opportunity to do so. but surprising them by not declaring war, that will have major repercussions that we really don't want. Personally, I wouldn't be opposed to, say, declaring war on them in a fit, then just sitting on it for a month. We get just as much surprise, but no diplomatic fallout....
Never heard about any country that attacked Germany because of their surprise attacks. Care to name few? How many countries chose to declare war on Germany after they surprise attacked Norway? Or lower countries? Or USSR?
I could name a few concerning a surprise attack against Poland...
Maybe you think that if they hadn't surprise attacked they would get more allies? Who? Spain? Argentina? Turkey? Switzerland? Sweden? Nope this neutral countries didn't join war on German side not because of German "lack of honour" but because of strategy considerations
I am more concerned with the citizenry of those countries, many of whom faced ideological dilemmas. As popular as fascism was, I suspect that most governments were more afraid of communism...
Besides, "they will launch a surprise attack the moment they think they have the advantage" is a legitimately strategic consideration.
Without surprise element Germany would never occupy Norway, would have much more problems with Belgium, and few days of preparation for Soviet forces would lead to quite different 1941
The Soviets had no idea that Germany was going to attack them? The German military strategies were largely effective long past the declaration of war. France wasn't taken by surprise because it thought that Germany was just going to sit around and do nothing, it was surprised because they didn't know how fast the German forces could move.
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