LOOOOOOOOOOOL
:Listen mate,I am not French!
Last time I checked my post I couldn`t find anything derogatory about Britain in it!BTW I live in Britain and have a British passport and am a little bit serious about history.Your "patriotic"! drivel reminds me more on drunken bravado of Chelsie fans than on a serious contribution to this thread!
But,if you want it you will get it:
everybody,and I mean everybody was simply "destroyed "by a German war machine in 1940-41!For various reasons:German tactics were new,and took all of Europe by surprise!Combibed assault of panzer divisions and aviation was a novelty.While British,French,Russians were debating the merits of cavalry v. tank,byplane or monoplane Germans had long established doctrine and well trained army,and weapons second to none!Britain didn`t have even a submachine gun,for God`s sake!?Sten was a emergency measure hastily introduced as a response to the excelent german MP-38!Americans were totaly unprepared!No army appart from Russians had anything to come even close to German tanks!Russians had the best tanks in 41 (T-34 and KV) but used them in a wrong way,just as British and French!Nobody bothered to read Hanz Guderian book about armored warfare published in early thirties!?Remember ,mate,85 % of fighting in Europe was in the Russian f Front!
About the Chanel: it is a great defender of UK,it is there not because Britain had built it,it just is!Further,British army had put a valiant fight but was ,almost ,viped out!If it wasn`t for Hitlers decision to stop the panzers 15 miles from Danquerque,against all military logic,Brits would be slaughtered on the beaches!But,we know what has happened.
France,as their general Gaufre had honestly said,had paid the price of "being victorious in WWI"!Niether British nor French were on the receiving end of tank assault(Germans were)and didn`t know the meaning of the word Tank terror!So,British invented the tank and Germans developed the best tanks in the world!French thought that their cavalry will master the panzers!We know the resoult!"Ardenes and their forrest is not a tank country" their generals claimed!They were in the same category as a British "genious" Gen. Haig who described machine gun as an "overrated weapon"!We,sadly,know the resoult of his evaluation!
Today,we all know what Germans knew in `39!I don`t think that this Anglo-Saxon BS about "French cowardice" should be tested by anyone,today!
The point is that USA can`t stand French because they are proud of their achievements,their history,art,literatury,science....deservedly so.And,their are reluctant to be American puppets and do everything that Washington says!It is called ;indenpendence,I believe!
But,with attitude:"With us or agains us" suddenly French are cowards,and Germans are Nazis,right!
Speaking of cowardice,90% of ground work in Bosnia and Kosovo was and is being done by French and British!Americans preffere to stay in their APCs,in their barracs!Ask Generel Michael Rose ,he knows!