Marine Le Pen’s niece enrolls in the ARMY as she calls on France to 'kill Islamism'

Express ^ | July 27, 2016 | Fraser Moore

[jpsb]

Marion Le Pen announced on Twitter she would join the French Army reserve after a spate of Islamic State-inspired terror attacks in Europe.

The 26-year-old also blasted the "ineffective" French army as the country reels from the murder of 84-year-old Father Jacques Hamel by two teenagers who said they were ISIS "soldiers".

[Reily]

An interesting book to read is “The Myths of The Great War”.
It compares the fighting effectiveness of the major powers.
As I remember the book, it argues that the French started out bad, learned from their mistakes and were most effective of the Allied powers in infantry combat. The French main problem was mediocre equipment. The Germans remained in class by themselves of superior effectiveness almost to the end. The authored rated the British least effective of the Western Allies. Almost entirely due to because of bad leadership, almost as well equipped as the Germans but saddled with leadership that couldn't or wouldn't adjust. He rates the US as almost as good as the French, but we were newbie and made newbie mistakes. He says we had a very good officer corps. We were mostly well lead from top to the junior officers. Interestingly he says the AEF was prepared for combat primarily by the French. The Russians and the Austro-Hungarians bad from beginning to end.