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To: wtd
The French army? Did I wake up in a time machine?
2 posted on 03/22/2015 2:38:37 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP for A Slower Handbasket)
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To: Steely Tom

Sort of an oxymoron.


3 posted on 03/22/2015 2:51:32 PM PDT by jonatron (Land of the Free, Home of the Brave)
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To: Steely Tom

The French Army has been kicking some serious terrorist ass in Mali recently...

And their ROE - so much better than the Americans.


4 posted on 03/22/2015 3:02:25 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: Steely Tom
The French army? Did I wake up in a time machine?

I wouldn't be so dismissive. The French military lost 90K men KIA over 40+ days of fighting during the Battle of France. It lost 75K men KIA during its Vietnam War. The French have always been staunch in the face of adversity. France's problems were its small size, being located next to Germany and not having a continent's worth of resources to supply its military, that was also out of range of enemy attack.

5 posted on 03/22/2015 3:03:30 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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