| I don't really buy Britain "falling". A negotiated peace (which would be slow and might not get anywhere) is possible but a successful German invasion is unlikely. Possible, practically everything is after all, but the odds are massively stacked against it.
The RAF needs to be wiped out as an effective force. Given German bombers couldn't reach the north of the country such was impossible. The RAF could and would have abandoned the south to remuster, rebuild and subsequently to sally during the invasion.
Secondly, the RN has to be destroyed almost to a ship. Again.. much of it can be relocated beyond the reach of German attacks. Again, sally forth during the invasion, break any link across the channel meanwhile gutting the German Rhine barges by simply driving near them. The only logistic support (and heavy equipment) for the invaders would have to be dropped by air.
Third, the British army may have been in chaos but by the time a German invasion could realistically been mustered they should have been more than capable of opposing the initial handful of divisions who could make landfall by simple weight of numbers if nothing else. Dads army may not have been much good in actual combat.. but they are more than capable of guarding pill boxes, strong points, train stations and so on while the regulars provide a tactical reserve against an opponent with minimal heavy equipment.
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