[Enchante]

An aside, the article displays great ignorance about the "Maginot Line" -- it was not built "coast to coast" and the German forces did not "fly over it" to defeat it. The fortifications which came to be known as the "Maginot Line ran from the Swiss/German/French border to the "Luxembourg/French" border. No "coast to coast" involved whatsoever. The German armies simply bypassed the Maginot Line by invading the neutral countries of Luxembourg and Belgium (as well as the Netherlands to the north). There were also much weaker fortifications constructed very late in the 1930s along the French/Belgian border, but they are not usually referred to as the "Maginot Line" since they were nowhere near the scope and strength of the original Maginot Line.

[bravo whiskey]

The Maginot Line worked. The French had better tanks than the Germans and more. The French failed because they did not have the will to fight (at the Government level) and their armor doctrine was not formulated. The French could have stopped the Germans in the Rhineland in 36, Czechoslovakia in ‘38 and attacked when the German attacked Poland in ‘39.

[hinckley buzzard]

Well done. A good illustration of why self-appointed amateur bloggers are to be viewed with skepticism.