Well - it only takes a week for the French to surrender anyway. So I think they’ve aligned their procurement with strategy quite well.
That really sounds very uneducated. More French died in WWI than Brits. They lead the casualty counts, and pretty much held the Germans into a 60 mile zone in the east of France for most of the war.
They fought to absolute destruction. Their soldiers, like British soldiers suffered under Generals of as low quality as the world has ever seen.
In WWII, they held the south, and the Brits held the north of the German invasion route. As the defense crumbled in front of the Blitzkrieg the British RAN AWAY at Dunkirk.
Yet, we curiously never hear about British cowardice for not fighting to the death.
They are properly seen as withdrawing to safety and regrouping to fight again in the future.
Yet, when the British ran away, they left the French army hopelessly exposed on its north flank. So yes, after a month and 12 days, The Nazis rolled into Paris.
And in that 6 weeks, the French Army had 360,000 killed or wounded. They inflicted 157,000 casualties on the invading Germans.
That’s not exactly cowardice. That slander always manages to pop up, but the French soldier has never demonstrated cowardice or a willingness to surrender.
And oddly, we never hear the British slandered as surrender monkeys, despite at Yorktown surrendering to a bunch of Colonists, at Dunkirk, Singapore, Crete, or the Royal Navy when confronted by Iraninan motorboats WITHIN SIGHT of a RN warship, etc. Propaganda is funny that way.