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Obviously not. Germany noticed lines have ends, and just went around.
by ctdonath 5y ago
Obviously not. Germany noticed lines have ends, and just went around.
- jjk166 5y agoSo you're saying that a nation without a large standing army can build a new force well suited to exploiting weaknesses of its adversaries who spend substantially on maintaining investments in defense which contain those exploitable weaknesses? One might go so far as to say that not having a strong standing army for an extended period of time actually proved militarily advantageous for the Germans in 1940 when their new army outmaneuvered an obsolete one.
- HideousKojima 5y agoThe Brits abd French actually drastically cut military spending between WWI and WWII
- ctdonath 5y agoI was responding to “The moment one country starts militarizing in a world without militaries, you know their intentions and can start remilitarizing to counter.” Lack of a military is quite a weakness to exploit.
- ncmncm 5y agoAlso, they went around it using, in large part, Czech armor they took when they invaded Sudetenland.