[harpseal]

A comment regarding French History the French Army at the start of World Wa II had more tanksthan the German army and more fighter planes than the Luftwaffe.

[Live free or die]

the French Army at the start of World Wa II had more tanksthan the German army and more fighter planes than the Luftwaffe

And what did they do with them after France declared war on Germany while much of the German army was hundreds of miles away in Poland? Not a damn thing!

[JohnGalt]

Quite true, but is it fair to suggest they were cowards?

Italy was checked by the Albanians, Greeks, French, English and won a squeaker against the Ethiopians between 1936 and 1941. You could throw in the Austrians (allbeit led by Rommel)in 1915. All were OFFENSIVE wars rather than defensive measures that the French were fighting...quite a difference, eh?

Sadly, the French, Germans, and Russians are playing a game of power politics that is well over the heads of the average war hawk who thinks France is just being, well, France. Americans will discover soon enough when the creditors that have been supporting our welfare state start buying Euros rather than t-bills.

[Chi-townChief]

At the time, the French were the strongest armed force in the world yet the sat on their existential asses while the Nazis butchered the Polish ally that the French had sworn to defend.