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I acknowledge your points - but I merely suggest it might not have been a forgone conclusion. The odds were definitely in our favour - but in the first couple of years of WW2 we managed to cock up far too many straightforward situations that were conveniently glossed over. My example of the two...

A lot of faith was placed in the Royal Navy and RAF being able to command the seas and skies and therefore to repel a German invasion fleet in the autumn / early winter of 1940. Maybe this was true. However you would also expect the Germans to have concentrated their own resources, including...

Good point. Radar was critical to the success of the Battle of Britain. Somehow the Germans failed to destroy the Chain Home radar network, otherwise we would have been blind to their air raids and rendered the RAF less effective. However it seems likely the coastal radar stations would have...