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** Also Churchill diverting General Wavell's forces to defend Greece. Greece and Crete were lost anyway and the delay in the Libyan offensive enabled the Africa Corp time to deploy there.
*** However, as the Churchill Museum in London makes a point of noting, unlike Hitler Churchill never actually overruled his generals.
**He was good at the what is perhaps the most important job of a wartime head of government which is getting a pretty good team into high position and supporting them while keeping them from [[We ARE Struggling Together| nibbling each other]] to much. Which included not just conventional soldiers and government officials, but a lot of people who has some wacky ideas some of which were goofballs but others hit the jackpot. A lot of credit for this goes to the British service had a lot of good people, as well as outsiders in selective fields like R and D, and Intelligence. But the guy at the top picks the kind of people he wants to do the job he wants them to do and that way worked.
**Also his idea of the proper grand strategy was on it's whole valid and the war went pretty much the way he wanted it to go, with the exception of the Russians getting to far West which he could not prevent without the cooperation of Americans and possibly with them.
* [[Mr. Vice Guy]]: His smoking and drinking, both seen as excessive, did nothing but add to his mystique.
* [[Nice Hat]]: He frequently wore bowlers, as seen in photographs. This hat has become associated with his image almost as much as his famous cigars.
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