Norway and Singapore carried different strategic consequences for Britain. In this assessment, Norway was the worse loss because it helped create the conditions for later problems. Allied control, benevolent neutrality, or even ordinary neutrality would have made the North Atlantic much easier to manage. The judgment focuses on geography and follow-on consequences instead of treating the Norwegian campaign as an isolated defeat.
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Why Norway mattered to the Atlantic war
The loss of Norway is rated as especially damaging because control or even continued neutrality there would have made the later North Atlantic struggle much easier for Britain.