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GreatChicken1234 t1_iw3gkra wrote
Do you think that if France had just defended the Ardennes more that they could have successfully defended against hitlers invasion in ww2?
TheGreatOneSea t1_iw511g4 wrote
Doubtful: the effective air superiority of the Germans destroyed practically all of the french heavy artillery, and made moving reinforcements by train difficult. The French army also didn't have the training and AT guns it desperately needed due to earlier cost cutting (only 20% of the French tanks even had radios,) and the end result was that the French army was too demoralized to attack even when the German tanks were too far ahead of their infantry, which was the only time France might have been able to reverse the situation, at least for a time.
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