Al Murray

I mean, it's on D-Day, it's sort of 350,000 people in Norway.

So that would require a million.

On the rule of three to one, that would require a million to overpower, right?

So...

You're not going to do that, are you, if you're the Allies?

Yeah, yeah.

But it's interesting, though, because so much warfare is actually about deterrence, right?

And so the Germans have successfully deterred the Allies from landing in Norway, but they were never going to do it anyway.

So they pulled back to Britain.

It's interesting, though, because you could argue that a gun never fired in anger has been successful, couldn't you?

You could argue these guns are never fired in anger.

So that's a success.

They've successfully deterred the Allies.

But obviously, it's a failure.

Well, no, but it's worth investigating, isn't it?

As a thought experiment.

You know, the idea is to deter the Allies from invading Norway.

They've succeeded in doing that, but they never were going to anyway.

Well, look at their thinking.

Is their thinking sound?