[phylo_roadking]

It's been a long time since I read it, but, once upon a time I read that the delay of Dragoon was also partly political...in that it hung the Maquis' risings in Central France, Vercours etc., out to dry - but I've heard TWO alternative reasons why :-

1/ it removed a possible Maquis political challenge to DeGaulle after Liberation, many Maquis' groups being Socilaist at best, Marxist at worst,

or

2/ it thus destroyed a major source OF possible DeGaulle support in the expected turbulent French post-liberation political scene.