Can someone explain this to me

British Empire was supposed to be a superpower with over 400 millions people and yet it couldn't even defeat Germany which was a lot smaller nation with about 80 million people and nowhere near resources as British Empire.

the continentals have always been better at land warfare while the islanders were better at naval warfare

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Not a great deal of the colonial empire was a worth a shit in the two wars. Africa had lots of resources to be extracted but few Africans capable of doing it -- that's British resources and men being pulled away from the home front. India was basically in a state of revolt since 1914 all the way to 1947.

Vast majority of those people were in the over seas colonies.
Britain couldn't conscript them because it would of lead to them being hated and even revolt in their territories.
Most of them were probably more use working than fighting anyway.
Also because I'm pretty the UK had some prejudice about bringing coloured troops into Europe.

FPBP

I think French did take people from their colonies to fight in Europe.

Britain won WW1 user, what are you even on about?

>Africa had lots of resources to be extracted but few Africans capable of doing it

What? The people who extracted the minerals and did the farming were Africans you idiot.

and look what good that did since many Africans liked being treated as equals when they were fighting for France and that opened the Pandora's box so to speak.

The vast majority of the British empire was made up of assbackward spear chucking peasants. The only “civilized” British colonies were Canada and Australia and there were only a handful of Whites there.