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To: allmendream

Not really. The suffered a lot of casualties for folding “like a cheap lawn chair.” They were poorly led and had an idiotic war doctrine (it was stupid in WWI - it was even more stupid in a mechanized era), but they did fight. If they had someone like a Guderian to revolutionize their land warfare doctrine - well, they had more (and better!) tanks than the Wehrmacht in 1940... It would have been bad.

Think of Israel, with a vastly superior military, being “defeated” by Hezbollah, not because of their military’s weakness, but because of idiot politicians (Israeli and American) and you’ll have it about right.


65 posted on 04/04/2008 11:26:55 AM PDT by Little Ray (I'm a Conservative. But I can vote for John McCain. If I have to. I guess.)
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To: Little Ray
By ‘folded’ I didn't mean that the French didn't put up resistance to the invasion and sustain casualties; i mean they barely slowed down the Nazi advance.

I was watching the History Channel and they were complaining about the French men hauled off to slave labor camps and all I could think was “If you are an able bodied man, capable of slave labor, and you are sipping espresso in the cafe when the Nazi's roll into town; I have little sympathy for you.” although i guess they didnt have the same means to resist that I would have, not having a Constitutional guarantee of the right to keep and bear arms. Much to their detriment.

69 posted on 04/04/2008 11:32:40 AM PDT by allmendream
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