The opening campaigns of the Second World War offered both sides many options, with uneven results and imperfect decisions. In this interpretation, the central operation had the best chance of success. The judgment comes with an acknowledged bias toward the destroyer operations examined in a book on the Tribal, Battle and Daring classes. Cruisers contributed personnel and helped with the initial landings, while destroyers put many parties ashore and operated farther up the waterways. How Britain should have intervened in Norway remains open to debate. The map shown at the end concentrates on the southern campaign and leaves the central operation at its upper edge.
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Why the central campaign may have been the Allies' best chance
The overlooked central campaign may have offered the Norwegian intervention's best chance of success, though this judgment comes from a destroyer-focused line of research.