The immediate strategy imposed, by the World situation at that time on the British High Command, was inevitably the defensive. Even in that darkest moment of the war, this planning envisaged ultimate victory. Churchill as Prime Minister and Defense Minister had set the British Joint Planning Staffs to work in May 1940 to implement the strategic concepts of the British War Cabinet. The experience of the British in landings in Norway in April 1940, had clearly indicated the major problems that would be confronted in the planning and preparations of such amphibious operations. Such an operation would involve larger scale amphibious operations than had yet been undertaken. From the time the British expeditionary forces were successfully evacuated from Dunkirk, at the end of May 1940, the British staffs had had in mind the eventual return to the Continent. In British strategy such an operation was envisaged in the final stage of war operations in the European theater.Ģ. Long before this date, however, British Planning staffs had been at work preparing preliminary studies of the operations that would be necessary to land armies on the Continent to defeat the German forces. In the previous Chapter, reference has been made to the strategical decisions taken at the first Anglo-American War Conference (the Arcadia Conference), held in Washington, 22 December 1941-14 January 1942. Detailed planning for cross-channel operations of the combined Anglo-American armies formally began early in 1943 in accordance with decisions taken at the Casablanca Conference. Introduction: British Planning 1940-1941. Introduction: British Planning, 1940-1941ġ.
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