will the problems during the french offensives led to a reorganisation of the french systems? Even small things (like not having HQ depending on civilian telephone network... with operators taking a 2 hour lunch break) might change a lot of things in June 40
Just one point to add.
The entente warplans for 1919 had offensives spearheaded by literally 1000s of tanks (up for the 100s assembled for late 1918 attacks - e.g. 500+ for Amiens attack). The Germans had no effective answer to this (their planned AT weapons for 1919 could only penetrate the...
There were precedents. Napoleonic wars saw a few capitals attacked. 1870 also comes to mind (not directly in, but not far ...). There are also older examples...
Can you double check, because I see Leffe triple at 8.5% and Affligen triple at 9% when googling to doublecheck my memory.
edit: I'd really like to see a classical triple at 13.9%. Maybe it was a special brew (happened to me once. I was used to Fraoch beer at 5% and once, I drunk a full 1l...
The other questions is, will it go better than OTL 1940 offensive or will it end up something like Pont Saint-Louis (when 9 French soldiers stopped 4,000 Italian ones until Armistice)
Not exactly. The ones who left were the ones who chose not to pledge to the French Republic but definitely not all the German ethnic people (which is most of the population anyhow, including the ones who feel French, speak only French and reject Germany violently). However, some pro-German...
Actually, given the current French domination, I believe they could accept a treaty which freezes the number of battleships at current numbers. I believe they have parity with the next 5 naval power combined.
1) Maginot line protects France from German attack, not Germany from French attack. You're thinking Siegfried line for the 2nd part. Which was much less substantial, even if the French 1940 GHQ thought it was much more imposing than it really was.
2) After WWI (ie after Maginot line was...
Won't work for a journalist. Serfs is pronounced as Cerfs but is written differently, so will not be useable by any newspaper. Unless you wait until radio is a thing...
Will work for a political speech, or a popular joke.
with Foch still living and Petain dead in 1929, French military policies (and in to some extend foreign policies) in the 30s will differ a lot from OTL.
Possibly a French military intervention in 1936.
Strategically, an alliance between Ottomans and Ethiopia does not seem to make much sense, except to attack the French. Which would be national suicide