To be fair, the Maginot line wasn’t breached. The Germans went around it.
Which was the entire point of the line. Belgium back out if their defense deal with France, and even German high command was pissed about how quickly Rommel was going through Northern France. Fall Gelb was absolutely balls to the wall insane and could have seen the German Panzers encircled if the Allied forces had been the least bit competent.
if the Allied forces had been the least bit competent
This is honestly the first time that I’ve ever heard someone say that the Allied forces were incompetent. They did win the war after all.
Eventually, but it took a lot of trial and error to get that far. Very few Allied commanders who started the war managed to finish it.
100%. The British army, at the time, was good for little more than putting down colonial rebellions against vastly inferiors foes.
Tbf to them though, at the time, no one had any reason to expect hundreds of mobile artillery fortresses, driven by methed out nazis, to appear 50 miles behind them.
We will rebuild!
