Counterfactual history can test consequences when it starts from researched plans and follows plausible outcomes. This scenario asks what follows if the Anglo-French strategic assumption survives the crisis of 1940. It compares a fleet evacuation with continued French national resistance and stops at the end of 1941. That boundary keeps the exercise focused on near-term force allocation and political choices without claiming that the rest of the war would unfold with certainty.
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Using counterfactuals to test historical consequences
The scenario is framed as a bounded way to test the consequences of decisions rather than an unlimited rewrite of the war.