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Churchill Blunders?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Churchill did want to send more RAF fighter aircraft across the Channel to bolster France in 1940. Dowding, the C-in-C of Fighter Command, had to insist that if he did he would leave Britain's own defence dangerously weak. We wouldn't have saved France, as we can see now, and we would have lost the Battle of Britain (it was, as Wellington said of Waterloo, "a darned close-run thing" anyway). That would have opened the way for a German invasion when we were in no shape to repel it.
I believe he also wanted Montgomery to go onto the attack in North Africa before Monty had built up his forces to the extent he wanted. Monty insisted, waited, and won.
Churchill was thinking as a politician, always trying to bring others "on side", but he was able to be dissuaded by the experts when needed. Hitler, on the other hand, overruled his generals with disastrous results for Germany.
One has to remember that Churchill had been the driving force behind the disastrous Gallipoli campaign in 1915, during WW1, when he was First Lord of the Admiralty, and had suffered some notoriety as Home Secretary at the time of the Sidney Street siege (1910?). Even his over-sized ego must have been aware that he could make mistakes!
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