Probably a rather silly question, but how would things have gone down if instead of going through Belgium for the most part Germany attacked headlong into the Maginot line?
This is exactly why so why would they want to do that?They'll ultimately overrun the line and push the French back, but they'll suffer so many casualties in doing so and expend so many resources that their offensive will exhaust itself shortly thereafter.
Would they really even overrun the line?They'll ultimately overrun the line and push the French back, but they'll suffer so many casualties in doing so and expend so many resources that their offensive will exhaust itself shortly thereafter.
They'll ultimately overrun the line and push the French back, but they'll suffer so many casualties in doing so and expend so many resources that their offensive will exhaust itself shortly thereafter.
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With all of this said I do think it would be interesting to see how people think an essentially WWI-era static fortification system stands up to "modern" 1940-era aerial bombardment, ...
Yes, I've been mentally cringing since I wrote that. I will humbly accept my reprimand.The CORF fortifications were not remotely WWI fortifications. They bore about as much relationship to those as a late 1930s battleship bore to a early Dreadnought class.