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The failure of Adlertag did not deter the Luftwaffe from continuing its campaign. The assault against RAF airfields continued throughout August and into September 1940. The battles involved large numbers of aircraft and heavy losses on both sides. The Luftwaffe failed to develop any focused strategy for defeating RAF Fighter Command. At first, it attempted to destroy RAF bases, then switched to strategic bombing by day and night. It tried to achieve the destruction of several British industries at the same time, switching from bombing aircraft factories, to attacking supporting industries, import or distribution networks such as coastal ports. An attempt was even made against unrelated targets, such as destroying the morale of the British population.The failure of the Luftwaffe to identify the radar chain and distinguish RAF fighter bases from those of other RAF commands undermined its ability to destroy the British fighter defences. The Luftwaffe underestimated British radar, and they had not realised its importance in the British operational system.To the contrary, OKL believed that the radar stations would benefit the German effort by sending RAF forces into large-scale air battles for the Luftwaffe to decimate. The RAF aircraft industry supported the losses and its pilots were replaced sufficiently to limit the RAF’s decline in strength and deny the Germans victory. Conversely, the RAF were able to ensure the serviceability rates and aircrew numbers of the Luftwaffe declined in August–September..Having failed to defeat the RAF, the Luftwaffe adopted a different and clearer strategy of strategic bombing known as The Blitz. However, as with the campaign against the RAF, the types of targets differed radically and no sustained pressure was put under any one type of British target... Disputes among the OKL staff revolved more around tactics than strategy. This method condemned the offensive over Britain to failure before it had even begun.. The end result of the air campaign against Britain in 1940 and 1941 was a decisive failure to end the war. As Hitler committed Germany to ever increasing military adventures, the Wehrmacht became increasingly overstretched and was unable to cope with a multi-front war. By 1944, the Allies were ready to launch Operation Overlord, the invasion of Western Europe. The Battle of Britain ensured that the Western Allies had a base from which to launch the campaign and that there would be a Western Allied presence on the battlefield to meet the SovietRed Army in central Europe at the end of the war in May 1945.

One of the rules of war (possibly #1) is : "Have a good plan"!!?? Seen as 'the "war of German Expansion' from Kaiser Wilhelm's 'Germany's place in the sun' with the last sleeve- scraping the Channel Scheifflin-style to The Bavarian Corporal's three pronged eastward Lebensraum land grab at the Slavic races/Russia, Germany simply could never handle the two primary battle elements of time and space/terrain. The British Navy moving to Scapa Flow immediately at the outset of WWI alter'd the Teutonic preconceived notion of a climactic fleet action until Jutland; which was tactically indecisive but strategically crippling to Germany's quest for empire. Resorting to offset submarine commerce warfare in both WW's simply pissed of the sleeping giant, America, and contributed to political as well as military failure. Overrated technology could never overcome poor strategy; Adler Tag was thus a continuation of the concept. Shifting strategic focus, not grasping radar's vital importance and fighters with ten-minute's combat fuel over English territory (time??) restriction: all compelled disaster. Without Goering's promised air supremacy...no Operation Sea Lion! Through Ultra, it was determined that assassinating Hitler (Operation Foxley) was futile; he was helping the allies win the war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Foxley