If the war started early, perhaps. But later on, not really. Britain and the dominion had one hell of a lot of resources.
There is a good book on this topic by David Edgerton titled ‘Britain’s War Machine’. It’s largely debunking the idea of the plucky underdog and shows the great strength of Britain relatively to Germany. It was more a question of how long it would take Germany to fall, rather than anything else. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13647996
An invasion of mainland Europe was tough. Not only logistically but also geopolitical, as hard is might be to believe there could be a large push back from an unilateral British invasion of Europe.
Also the UK had great access to men and resources, definitely better on the latter than Germany. But did it have industrial capacity necessary is the question. Most of the manufacturing was concentrated in mainland UK, by design as that's how the empire made its wealth. The UK had to purchase a lot of both naval and land assets from the US.
If the war started early, perhaps. But later on, not really. Britain and the dominion had one hell of a lot of resources.
There is a good book on this topic by David Edgerton titled ‘Britain’s War Machine’. It’s largely debunking the idea of the plucky underdog and shows the great strength of Britain relatively to Germany. It was more a question of how long it would take Germany to fall, rather than anything else. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13647996