Comments by "Graham the Baron. " (@grahamthebaronhesketh.) on "Military History not Visualized" channel.

The airborne invasion of Crete was a success however as an experiment it proved that the losses involved were unacceptable. The British made a similar mistake at Arnhem. I think in Crete the problem was they concentrated the attack on the airfields instead of dropping inland thus drawing the troops away from the airfields before the main attack.
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The biggest mistake the German forces made in WW2 was not securing Gibraltar before Barbarossa. If they had, then Malta would easily starve into surrender and Egypt would be lost. The Germans were short of Oil and Libya had all the oil they needed to grow very strong. Then all Rommel needed to do was slowly push the British out of the oil fields. Barbarossa was a disaster from the start. The Germans would have been better off digging in in Poland. Buying oil from their THEN Russian allies and sweeping into France as they did. But following the French surrender and lots of drinking in Paris pull the whole German army back out of France back to the new German Border with assurances from the French not to assist the British in any way.
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There is a lot of discussion on the subject but in my opinion Stalingrad had not military significance and it was destroyed. The troops should then have moved on to the oil wells which were indeed of military significance.
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@davethompson3326 I have been there and there is plenty. All the machine guns were around the airfields and out of all the airfields they used as drop zones they captured only 1. So therefor the first waves should have dropped to the south of the airfields to draw away the defenders.
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By this time it was already too late.
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@AFGuidesHD Yes you are right oil was discovered in 1955. Gibraltar was still Key to the defeat of Malta.
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@hailexiao2770 Not an easy task at all but critical to winning the war.
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