Tuesday, June 21, 2011

85,000 French Soldiers died in the Battle of France. How is that not fighting?

As I stated in the last question on this subject it was Germany's superior military and France's poor tactics, not France's unwillingness to fight. I think that the best way to frame how the battles went is to use Col. John Boyd's formula or loop which consists observe, orient, decide and act. Germany was very good at this and it showed in their aggressive and organized tactics throughout WW2. France on the other hand had expected for a stalemate in the trenches as had happened in WW1 and for that mistake they were defeated swiftly.

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