Read around a bit. Britain went to war in pursuance of its foreign policy goals in exactly the same way and for the same reasons it had over the previous 400 years. To maintain a balance of power on continental Europe to prevent a challenge to its overseas possessions.
Germany had been the biggest problem the British faced since Napoleonic France, but the solution followed was the same as always. Bring in other allies in a war to bring down the rising power to preserve British supremacy.
Even if the war had followed the same pattern as WW1 with the Germans getting bogged down in France, British foreign policy objectives would have been achieved as the fighting would be on foreign soil, would engage and weaken its actual and potential rivals in overseas territories and would prevent interference by competitors in British interests.
What wasn't foreseen was that France would fall so fast and inflict so little damage on the German military in the process. France was agreed to have the most powerful army in the world in 1939 and was not expected to fall in the way it did.
Beginning a war on continental Europe looked like traditional British foreign policy. Poland was as much a reason for the British going to war in 1939 as Serbian independence was in 1914
Read around a bit. Britain went to war in pursuance of its foreign policy goals in exactly the same way and for the same reasons it had over the previous 400 years. To maintain a balance of power on continental Europe to prevent a challenge to its overseas possessions.
Germany had been the biggest problem the British faced since Napoleonic France, but the solution followed was the same as always. Bring in other allies in a war to bring down the rising power to preserve British supremacy.
Even if the war had followed the same pattern as WW1 with the Germans getting bogged down in France, British foreign policy objectives would have been achieved as the fighting would be on foreign soil, would engage and weaken its actual and potential rivals in overseas territories and would prevent interference by competitors in British interests.
What wasn't foreseen was that France would fall so fast and inflict so little damage on the German military in the process. France was agreed to have the most powerful army in the world in 1939 and was not expected to fall in the way it did.
Beginning a war on continental Europe looked like traditional British foreign policy. Poland was as much a reason for the British going to war in 1939 as Serbian independence was in 1914
So why didnt they declare war a month before they marched into Poland if it didnt matter?
And also, it was Belgian independence that Britain entered the war in 1914 over.
Seriously, dont make such a disrespectful remark as "Read around a bit" when you are so ignorant about everything except Thai child prostitution.
Read around a bit. Britain went to war in pursuance of its foreign policy goals in exactly the same way and for the same reasons it had over the previous 400 years. To maintain a balance of power on continental Europe to prevent a challenge to its overseas possessions.
Germany had been the biggest problem the British faced since Napoleonic France, but the solution followed was the same as always. Bring in other allies in a war to bring down the rising power to preserve British supremacy.
Even if the war had followed the same pattern as WW1 with the Germans getting bogged down in France, British foreign policy objectives would have been achieved as the fighting would be on foreign soil, would engage and weaken its actual and potential rivals in overseas territories and would prevent interference by competitors in British interests.
What wasn't foreseen was that France would fall so fast and inflict so little damage on the German military in the process. France was agreed to have the most powerful army in the world in 1939 and was not expected to fall in the way it did.
Beginning a war on continental Europe looked like traditional British foreign policy. Poland was as much a reason for the British going to war in 1939 as Serbian independence was in 1914
So why didnt they declare war a month before they marched into Poland if it didnt matter?
And also, it was Belgian independence that Britain entered the war in 1914 over.
Seriously, dont make such a disrespectful remark as "Read around a bit" when you are so ignorant about everything except Thai child prostitution.
You seem to have a reading comprehension failure. The fat clogging the arteries to your brain?
HINT: He was 'educated' in the US. Their science books still talk about magic snakes, enormous floating zoos and a carpenter dude who could walk on water....