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The French
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Originally Posted by drymartini66
Yeah, they had a defense agreemnet once. Ask the Czechs, Poles and the soldiers at Dunquerke on how well it worked out.
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I enjoy the French jokes too, but in fairness was there an army anywhere in the world that could have stopped the initial German Blitzkrieg in 1939? It was an evolution in tactics, the shift from Second Generation to Third Generation warfare, and both the Israelis and the US have used these maneuver tactics with great success, while significantly outnumbered, in subsequent Middle Eastern conflicts. The French fought bravely on a massive scale in WW1 particularly at Verdun. And while an argument could be made for them being out maneuvered again at Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam, didn't their troops fight hard?
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