New Reality Seeds

[johndallman]

Originally Posted by Astromancer

Reading Eugen Weber's The Hollow Years: France in the 1930s it occurs to me that, if you could have gotten a charismatic leader like FDR, France might have seemed too tough to beat.

It would have been necessary to completely reform the French Army. As in, fire all the officers, forbid re-recruiting them, and start a new army from scratch. They had set up a system of defence that was designed to make them unbeatable in a repeat of WWI, but was so ill-suited to WWII that deliberate and systemic sabotage could hardly have done better. The Seeds of Disaster by Robert A Doughty explains this, and I reviewed it.