Thanks for the response Garg, I’ll do some more installments from the collection.
And you’re right–doing nothing was probably not an acceptable response, so they did the only thing that they reasonably could. It does stand in contradiction to the other, futile or counterproductive preparations made before PH (the radar debacle, the aircraft-parking and ammunition readiness issues etc.)
How people react and think in that present (of a historical situation) is going to seem unusual to people who, with the benefit of hindsight, get to “peek at the cards” and see how things really played out. We armchair generals live in the second perspective, not the first.
