RE: The End Game of Atheism
June 26, 2013 at 5:39 pm
(This post was last modified: June 26, 2013 at 6:05 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(June 26, 2013 at 4:35 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote:(June 26, 2013 at 1:35 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: Not always.
The French built the Maginot line, basically the ultimate trench, because they expected the second world war would be just like the first world war.
The Germans went round it.
The Germans went round it the first time. They just dusted off the Schlieflen Plan and used it again.
Not quite. Scheliefen plan called for a huge right hook along the coast by the Germans around North and central France. Too bad for the Germans their right right arm wasn't long enough and the French almost succeeded in chopping the arm off just as it reached its maximum extension and stalled there. In 1941 the Germans tried a much smaller left hook around just North eastern France, through Ardenne forest. The French, expecting a repeat of big right hook along the coast, didn't see it coming, and was cut off.
The notion that the French expected to fight a trench war as shown by the maginote line was a total myth. The French wanted to fight a mobile war in the North. In this scheme the Maginot line was not suppose to stop the Germans, it was suppose to channel the Germans to the North where the French wanted to fight. In this the Maginot line was totally successful and gave the French the battle they wanted.
What caused the French to lose the war was the fact that they didn't foresee that the Germans could have launched a right hook in the North through a big densely wooded forest.
