The Maginot Line would work great against small bands or even massed infantry divisions and armor. Maginot expected it to provide an economy of force defense while French mobile forces pivoted on it. The mobile forces were poorly deployed and the German plan was brilliant and daring.
The border can be secured but not with three thousand border patrol agents. It will not take a Maginot Line. The Southern border is less than three thousand miles and even taken with the Canadian border where in Hades did you come up with ten thousand miles? Including all the coasts are you?
Taking the southern border as the 1st priority, it could be quite secure with less than one percent of the defense budget.
I haven't seen too many terrorist cells riding around in Abrams tanks or massed in neat rows like the British at Yorktown lately. And as for the Germans, all they had to do is fly over the thing.
Maginot expected it to provide an economy of force defense while French mobile forces pivoted on it. The mobile forces were poorly deployed and the German plan was brilliant and daring.
But breached it was, at an incredible cost to the French. They'd still be speaking German in Paris today if not for the Allies.
The border can be secured but not with three thousand border patrol agents. It will not take a Maginot Line. The Southern border is less than three thousand miles and even taken with the Canadian border where in Hades did you come up with ten thousand miles? Including all the coasts are you?
Yeah, I guess you busted me on that one. No terrorist or refugee would ever consider using a boat to get to the US. I think its an Islamic thing ...
Taking the southern border as the 1st priority, it could be quite secure with less than one percent of the defense budget.
On what do you base that estimate? How would you "secure the borders"?