Why Sealion is Not an Option, by Alison Brooks

[Johnnie Lyle]

Oh please. Quit beating a deader than dead horse. The Unmentionable Sea Mammal has devolved from a truism into a bad trope.

Unfortunately there’s always another generation of armchair strategists who thin it’s a viable possibility and not a surefire way to send a bunch of German kids home in boxes.

Point taken, but it really has become extremely tiring.
Believe it or not, a big part of officer training in Germany consists of debunking the myths surrounding certain real or planned operations during WW2. I learned as early as during the mandatory history lessons that the basic officer training course at the Castle that Sealion (meep, I invoked it! ) was a pipe dream, that Admiral Günter Lütjens was a fatalistic fool and other things like that.
During fleet practice (part of thebasic officer course), one of the ports we visited was Souda on Crete. The officer briefing us on the island and its history gleefully debunked the myth that the air landing/invasion of that island had been anything but well planned and executed and only succeeded thanks to the tenacity of the troops the OKW threw into the battle.

Aye. The problem is not with the next generation of Germans. If you’ll pardon the countryism, all y’all done realized you fucked up and are working diligently to ensure the next generation doesn’t repeat the mistakes of their grandfathers and great-grandfathers.

The problem are the Wehraboos, and the vast majority are the heirs of your opponents. They keep having to be reminded why it played out the way it did.

Y’all just get caught in the crossfire.