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Hmmm.... Fascinating.
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Cartman: [QB] Actually, Maginot was the one who pushed France's parliament to fund the project. And, in fact, the line itself didn't fail France so much as the "Maginot mentality" of false security did. There were three schools of thought: Joffre favored a line of fortifications along France's eastern frontier with Germany, a series of defended concentration areas from which troops could counter any attack which attempted to penetrate between the defenses, Petain was a supported of defense in depth like the Hindenburg Line, and de Gaulle argued for a buildup of tanks and planes. But France had no stomach for mobility and attack (aka. modern warfare, which was around the corner in 1930) after losing the unimaginable amount of one and a half MILLION of its soldiers in WW1, so it went with the line and payed the price. That's the real cruelty... [/QB][/QUOTE]
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