The operational analysis draws a methodological boundary around 1941. Early consequences can be argued from known institutions, procurement cycles, and force availability. Each change nevertheless prompts an enemy response, which then changes the next British decision and produces further reactions. Beyond that point, the growing number of interacting choices makes a single detailed timeline more fiction than historical analysis.
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Why the scenario stops short of predicting the later war
By about 1941, accumulated enemy reactions make the exercise a defensible chain of possibilities rather than a forecast of one inevitable wartime outcome.