Individual French servicemen, spies, and cops are among the very best in the world and are to be respected. The failure has always been in their military and political leadership.
french Spies have a licence to kill (as do Russians) and are masters of faking “accidents” to get rid of traitors and all who get in the Way of the Republic. You betray France and you become “accident Prone” —step in front of a bus, or drive drunk and get into a fatal accident. The French have a mean streak in them that can make them a grim and terrible enemy. they are masters of the “Dirty Trick” When England and Argentina were at war—and Argentina wanted to buy French Air to surface rockets—The French sold it to them (but only for Gold bars) Then when they wanted to ship them—their was a dock strike. Then they found the papers were not signed by the right offical—when the Argentines went to get the right signiture the man was on a long vacation somehwre in Nepal. In short the war was over before they got the deadly rockets. No one can drag their feet like the French.