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Aragorn1: Well that would depend on how you define "invasion". Under the definition "an attempt to land forces on hostile soil for military purposes" the Dieppe raid was an invasion. I am not certain if more troop landings were planned as many aspects of this is shrouded in mystery. I am confident that the objective was not a liberation of France, rather to establish a breachhead, capture some ground and hold it for sufficient time to make the Germans pull troops out of the Russian campaign. I believe this to be closest to the truth as it makes the most sense.

Link: I am honestly SO sorry for forcing you into the offensive like that. It was not my intention to make you defend yourself. On the contrary the whole thing has been me defending myself. As you can see I made a very brief comment regarding the original subject that drew some quite condensed parallels between the world wars and the contemporary conditions that may be similar. I was then accused of not knowing something I consider fundamental knowledge so I felt I had to elaborate. Then I get accused of being to superficial again by you and I simply had to retrace a bit. I also felt that any flaw in argumentation within a strictly historical discussion due to lack of professional training needed to be pointed out. Sort of a "bear with me, I am only an amateur scholar" statement.

I am 100% native Danish. My command of the English language comes more or less exclusively from school. We do start out English classes quite early here. Our own language - Danish - is considered among the most difficult to learn in the world and is very difficult to master (though it is similar to Dutch so you'll pick it up easily). Half of my family originates from Southern Jutland which had been seceded to Prussia after the Second Danish-Borussian war of 1864. As such Danes living in this area were forced into German military sevice during WWI. I had two great-granduncles fighting on the eastern front. Both made it through the hostilities, however one died on the march back. I guess I snapped when someone suggested I did not know about the assasination in Sarajevo.