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...regiment of the famed Fliegerkorps parachutists from Crete was in Rommel's front line, getting acclimated for desert warfare. More thousands of parachutists and airborne infantrymen waited in Greece and Crete, whence they could directly attack the British rear along the coast, or be shifted to Africa for use from Rommel's airdromes...
...British patrols said that Rommel had withdrawn the bulk of his German troops to the rear for rest and refitting, had left Italians to hold most of the front. He evidently had a poor opinion of Britain's Eighth Army, and of the chances of a British offensive...
...least one official British source suggested that Rommel may be allowed to strike first. A military commentator for the British Information Services in New York observed: "Rommel is a daring and successful commander, and a master stroke on the Middle East might upset severely the strategy of the United Nations. There are many reasons why he should strike now rather than later...
Stab in the Back. It was at El Alamein that the Germans and the British actually faced each other; it was beyond El Alamein that the richest and most immediate rewards of conquest-Cairo, Suez-beckoned to Rommel. But the tense situation on that front invited action elsewhere...
...Temptingly before the British was the long African coast in Rommel's rear: Spanish Morocco, France's North Africa and Tunis, all of which would raise major diplomatic problems. Italy's Tripoli and Rommel's own Cyrenaica (Bengasi) could be the target of a sudden blow to cut the rear communications of the Afrika Korps...