A viewer relays the suggestion that Mountbatten lacked authority for a larger invasion and that Dieppe was called a raid after the event. Armour is not normally taken on a raid. This does not settle the operation's authorization or intended scale, but force composition remains evidence that any label must explain. Retrospective terminology should be tested against what planners actually committed.
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Dieppe's raid label and its armoured force
A brief exchange questions whether Dieppe's armoured force fits a simple description of the operation as a raid.