This is something of a companion to the WI Petain dies threads that have been going around recently.
Since Petain and Foch were roughly the same age (born 1856 and 1851 respectively) it seems to me that if we can kill off Petain with natural causes there ought to be a way to have Foch live through WW2 instead. Unlike many in the French government, Foch seemed to have been more on the ball in predicting the next war and was also a very good military commander with great respect from WW1. I honestly don't know enough about the man's personality but it seems like Foch would have been considerably less likely to go "dark side" than Petain. So would a France left with Foch instead of Petain be more capable of fighting the Germans in WW2?
Since Petain and Foch were roughly the same age (born 1856 and 1851 respectively) it seems to me that if we can kill off Petain with natural causes there ought to be a way to have Foch live through WW2 instead. Unlike many in the French government, Foch seemed to have been more on the ball in predicting the next war and was also a very good military commander with great respect from WW1. I honestly don't know enough about the man's personality but it seems like Foch would have been considerably less likely to go "dark side" than Petain. So would a France left with Foch instead of Petain be more capable of fighting the Germans in WW2?