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Originally Posted by Magnum PEI
This is true, but at the outset of both world wars Britain expected France to do most of the fighting. The stalemate and the quick German victory in the respective wars forced them to change their strategies.
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Amazing really seeing as it was a war to defend France, they had by far the largest land army and precipitated both wars as well as the franco prussian war that started it all.
Yes I can easily see why the UK should have stepped up more to a war it didn't want or start to keep another country safe, a country that repeatedly showed an inibility to defend itself.
The reality was in both '14 and '40 that the british had a very small army and relied on its navy, what it sent was what it had and to be frank in 1914 the British should not have been involved at all, it was a French war diplomatically precipitated by the French in order to regain the Alsace Lorraine, there was nothing at stake for the British and we should have left the French to win or lose their war alone.