Could Operation Sealion have succeeded?
Not with the existing situation in 1940: Germany lacked the necessary resources to force the English Channel, and even transporting and supplying ground forces of the necessary size would have been difficult, probably impossible. Alison Brooks and Ian Montgomerie have posted extended arguments to this effect; see their webpages (Question 19). A plausible Nazi defeat of Great Britain requires changing something other than just going ahead with Sealion.
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