I always thought the French needed 2 lines. The one they had on the German border and a second line along the Belgium border. And of course the French needed lots of tanks and a massive amount of war machines.
The USA needs drones and lots of them. And every type of applications for land, sky, and underwater. And lots of nerds with joy stick video game knowledge on how to destroy the enemy. A drone attack could take out an aircraft carrier. Especially if there was a 2 pronged attack from the air and from under water.
The British were supposed to hold the Belgian border and the northern flank. They fled the battlefield. Probably a smart move to save the BEF for the defense of England. But it gets old to hear them slander the French Army for the surrender when they fled the Battlefield at Dunkirk, and surrendered to a Japanese force a third their size at Singapore.
Fact is, the Brits and French were simply outsmarted by the Germans in 1940. The Brits lost 11k dead. The French lost about 75k dead in that 6 week battle (for perspective we lost 58k in Vietnam) German wartime estimates of their dead were about 45k and they lost about a third of the Luftwaffe.
The Battle of France in 1940 was a short and very violent battle. The Germans and Hitler well-learned the lessons of WWI and had a new approach that nobody was ready to deal with. They won... the Brits and French fought bravely. The Brits retreated, the French left behind were defeated and surrendered.
It’s a shame to hear modern people slander the French in that battle.
- - George Patton