the question of the night bombing in london is an interesting one, especially considering that the british revenge raid the next night led to the tactics change by goering who by all accounts had no idea how close he was to defeating the RAF.
there's no doubt that the luftwaffe had previous to the battle of britain used terror against the citizenry to defeat nations, so the point of whether the first civvy bombing was by mistake or not really becomes a moot point because after the berlin revenge raid it became main tactic #1 which was a serious blunder.
i suppose and night bombing campaign is inevitably going to strike the wrong target, considering how inaccurate even daytime bombing was at the time, and how close some of the radar arrays and airfields were to some towns - though most were in the country.
the whole episode stands out to me as more evidence of the sheer idiocy of goering, and the absurdity of the whole criminal nazi government and the cronyism therein. goering was untouchable as he'd been hitler's main bud during the rise of nazism, part of the inner circle.
speaking of the nazi inner circle, in the atlantic battle i really believe that the numbers don't bear out the enigma effect, i think that the economic resources directed towards the kriegsmarine is a more direct cause-and-effect when looking at the timeline of when the allies' convoy defense started to work. doenitz wasn't part of the criminal elite and he didn't curry favour or participate in seances and occult readings and he didn't have some BS pet project in the social ministries. when his funds were cut off in 1943 the allies won the atlantic, period. yes, the codes were broken - but many entire wolf packs operated independently and assumed that their cover was blown. yes, convoy defense worked - but became far more effective when the number of u-boats they were facing went down.
as for pearl harbour, it's interesting that there was a submarine attack poorly coordinated by the japanese by little pup subs an hour before the famous assault, during which 3 subs were sunk by US destroyers and a 4th crashed aground. an actual standown order was issued after this incident, when there should have been an alert issued. make of that what you will, it seems pretty suspicious to me... especially when combined with the open provocations with japan, like the oil embargo and america's covert war against the empire in china.
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