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Does the French preparing for war mean anything at all? The French are horrible at preemptive preparation, much less actually fighting. No one has forgotten the
by jimmyed 6y ago
Does the French preparing for war mean anything at all? The French are horrible at preemptive preparation, much less actually fighting. No one has forgotten the second world war.
- WJW 6y agoYou should probably not take memes about the French surrendering as gospel truth about their actual capabilities. They are a nuclear armed state, have been involved in Afghanistan and across North Africa for decades and in general are one of the more capable land armies in Europe. That said any army will always be planning for high intensity war, and also for low intensity war, and also for small scale anti-insurgency ops, and also for protecting national interests abroad, etc etc etc. Preparation for that is a key element of any army.
- astrea 6y ago> You should probably not take memes about the French surrendering as gospel truth about their actual capabilities. Especially when one considers there were technically two French states during WW2.
- kiliantics 6y agoUntil more recently than WWII, they were pretty good at maintaining military presence in their colonies and massacring their colonial subjects
- julienfr112 6y agoAnd at sharing some good people to help US doing the same in South America : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Aussaresses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Aussaresses