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Note by the Axis Planning Section

1 Mar 1941

3. In the course of discussing the factors likely to limit the strategical flexibility of the enemy, which we have been invited to study by the Directors of Plansxx, we have had to consider not only various possible alternative courses of action open to the enemy, but the possibility of his switching, at some not very distant date, from a short-term to a long-term strategical plan. We have hitherto assumed that the enemy's main object would be the defeat of this country before the end of this year by air attack, blockade and invasion, and that operations in North Africa and South-east Europe have been subsidiary to this main plan.
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Collection ID
CAB81
Conflict
Second World War
Countries
Germany Iraq Portugal Russia Spain Syria Turkey
Document Reference
CAB 81/136/15
Document Types
Memorandum
File Reference
CAB 81/136
Identifier
10.1080/swwf.cab81.0136.015
Keywords
Intelligence Reports Intelligence Requirements Arab World Predicting Enemy Intentions Invasion Threat German Strategy Axis Strategy Spanish Neutrality Portuguese Neutrality Turkish Neutrality German Foreign Policy Strategy American Neutrality Desert War Japanese Strategy Invasion Of The Soviet Union Axis Powers Axis War Aims German War Aims
Languages
English
Organizations
Axis Planning Section Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee Chiefs of Staff
Pages
2
Published in
United Kingdom
Series
War Cabinet and Cabinet: Committees and Sub-Committees of the Chiefs of Staff Committee. Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee. Axis Planning Section. APS (41) Series. Memoranda
Themes
Military Intelligence

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