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To: Catholic Canadian

The French resistance was an insurgency not a military force. Their military folded like a cheap lawn chair.


62 posted on 04/04/2008 11:18:29 AM PDT by allmendream
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To: allmendream

Not really. The suffered a lot of casualties for folding “like a cheap lawn chair.” They were poorly led and had an idiotic war doctrine (it was stupid in WWI - it was even more stupid in a mechanized era), but they did fight. If they had someone like a Guderian to revolutionize their land warfare doctrine - well, they had more (and better!) tanks than the Wehrmacht in 1940... It would have been bad.

Think of Israel, with a vastly superior military, being “defeated” by Hezbollah, not because of their military’s weakness, but because of idiot politicians (Israeli and American) and you’ll have it about right.


65 posted on 04/04/2008 11:26:55 AM PDT by Little Ray (I'm a Conservative. But I can vote for John McCain. If I have to. I guess.)
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