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Originally Posted by robtek

Thats not what the majority of history books agree to.

The reason for the loss of the bob was the halfhearted way it was conducted by the Fuehrehauptquartier already planning Barbarossa and of course to change the target from fighters to cities.

Anything else i havent seen written.

Well, yes, perhaps that's the way to look at it, something on the German side wasn't full steam ahead.

I found this today, while looking for something else:

In the English translation of "Panzer Leader" Guderian is translated as writing:

Meanwhile, the units that had remained in France were busy preparing for Operation Sea-lion. Even from the very beginning this operation was never taken seriously. In my opinion the lack of a sufficiently strong air force and of adequate shipping-not to mention the escape of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk-made it a completely hopeless undertaking. Those two weaknesses-air power and shipping-are surely the best possible proof that Germany had neither intended nor made any preparations for a war against the Western Powers. When in September the autumn storms set in, Operation Sea-lion, which was already dead, was finally buried

I may have been remembering the flavour of that when I said BoB wasn't really winable for the Germans, though I certainly didn't remember it in full.