According to Barbara Tuchman's,
The Guns of August, the French fought the numerically superior Germans to a standstill in the early stages of WWI, ultimately driving them back, the British Expeditionary Force didn't do squat, and the Americans were late to the party.
If your recent history is that flawed, I shudder to think about the rest of your "analysis."
I like Tuchman's work in a Distant Mirror but I don't believe it the French attacked early in the war into Alsace Lorraine and got their a** kicked. America bailed both the British and French out in WWI they were about to lose( in contrast to WWII where our supplies were essential but our men weren't the commies had already beaten Hitler on the Eastern Front before D-Day).