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Interesting suggestion on AH-com - have FIC declare for Free France. Quite close in effect as FFO. Having this guy rebel against the legitimate French Government is not that far a stretch ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Catroux His successor doing same - calling in the Brits instead...

I did not follow FFO that closely. I know of the 1940 AU and a snippet of later events. With ASB elements like e.g. an entire USA Air Army on Crete in spite of the island not having enough port facilities to take in the necessary construction materials and equipment needed to build the necessary...

Yes, FFO was a French wank. Quite understandable, BTW. Oh, I was somewhat involved with one of the offshots - APOD. And in the Days of Yore I used to be active on Warships1.

If FFO Italy can either stay neutral or not :) In the latter case I imagine Libya to be lost to Mussolini's cause as it cannot be supplied. The MN is easily RM's peer and there would be no OTL Italian shipping route along the Tunisian coast. With the Italian DOW being a spark of inspiration on...

FFO might not be the household term I imagined. Sorry if I sounded brusque!

The acronym FFO stands for France Fights On. Do a websearch :) So there is no Vichy - it is the 3rd Republic in Exile. Hence the Franco-Brit alliance holds, Japan cannot strongarm itself into FIC without causing a war first. The Japanese invasion would be in XII.41.

The main point is that if FFO then the Japanese do not install themselves there "peacefully" and have to fight their way in. Sorry for ambiguity.

Tough call. Although I suppose that in a FFO scenario the FIC is the first line of defense and does not fall, being better garrisoned and in part due to the Japanes not having their insane OTL luck. E.g. have the invasion fleet run into a dozen MN, KNM or RN submarines ...