(3/12) Battlefield I: The Battle of France Episode 1 (GDH)

[mackshayster]

@narref91 some defenses could be thrown up, but it was politically unacceptable at the time for france to do that as it was practically abandoning belgium to its fate.

[steve5123456789]

Thats quite a big flaw leaving a big hole in the defense line.

[elKarlo]

@steve5123456789

It wasn't a bad plan. It forced the Germans to fight in the area of France's choosing. France also couldn't afford to make a decent defensive line, that was double the size of the Maginot line.

[steve5123456789]

@elKarlo But they left the crappiest divisions to guard that area. In war you can never say "o they might not come that way, because it's to much trouble", it's grade E art of war stuff; shame on france.

[elKarlo]

@steve5123456789 Very true, but you can't cover all the ground with you best forces. You have to pick and chose, what you are going to defend to the fullest, and what is expendable. The French did a bad job, but they were also fighting a war with outdated methods of warfare. It was a case of everything that could go wrong, in fact did you

[marcobagut]

it's siCHel...Not sikel! but it's ok these documentary are simply excellent!

[WiredDragoon]

It was also a problem of diplomacy, for that would have left the Belgians on the "other" side of it.

[HoustonGD]

Talk about opposites. Chamberlain to Churchill.

[SShaupsturmfuhrer]

the general francisco franco (what later go to become spain's head of state) said about the maginot line to the french generals in a tour for the line "ok, well, well is a nice trap for an army my friends" franco see the main weakness of the line: his flanks, the line could be outflanked and destroyed, later in 1940 the wehrmacht prove what franco was right, they outflank the line and defeat the french army

[LTDcunuk]

5/5