BritishImperial said:nope, still good, and still britain's chances in this war get ever slimmer.
Winner said:Nitpick: the name of the Czech president is Benes (well, it's really Beneš, pronounced Baenesh). Never mind.
History input: the Czechoslovak army has always been led to absolute loyalty to the democratic political representation, especially its top leadership. During and after the Sudetenland crisis, there were fears the army might refuse to obey the order to leave the borders without a fight, but despite strong opposition from the lower ranking officers (let alone the common soldiers) the military accepted the political decision. The general staff has been deliberately filled with very loyal and rather apolitical officers. The more aggressive (and often more competent) officers were usually retired as soon as it was possible in order to (to put it bluntly) get rid of them.
I guess that in this alternate timeline the general staff has not been purged of the more assertive types
trekaddict said:Pretty much yes. In the updates I never got to write I wuld have explanied that in some more detail. Simply put the General for whom I forgot to enter the name into the text was more loyal to Czechoslovakia as a nation than the republic per se.
Winner said:If I could remember his name, I'd give you a perfect candidate... (uses google) Josef Šnejdárek. He could have become the chief of the general staff, but he was allegedly deemed to be too "trigger happy". His retirement caused a bit of a stir in 1935.
"I can't imagine a better thing for a soldier than to wage a war to defend his country..." he once said, or something close to that. He fought in the Czech-Polish and Czech-Hungarian wars in 1919, and before that he served in the French foreign legion.
Sorry, I won't spam the thread anymore
El Pip said:I think this could just about be better for the country, for all Churchill's immense benefits and the good he did he was far from perfect. If Chamberlain makes it a fight Churchill may have to moderate his position and accept military advice, like less ridiculous adventures in the Middle East.
Enewald said:Czechs surrendered, hehe.
No surrender? :wacko: