"Christophe Chazot" wrote in

"John Mullen" a écrit
"Christophe" wrote

According to the first line, we were talking about WW1 :
The French were involved rather heavily in WW1 you'll find

Je suis vraiment desolee que tu m'as malcompris!

'For sure, but not (with all respect) in the second'

Tout que j'ai dit est de la guerre deuxieme, pas la premiere.

J'espere bien que tu m'excuse pour tous mes faux en francais.

My apologies, I thought it was about 1914-18.

What happened to our army in 1939-40 had little to do with what was
achieved in 1917-18...

I've always thought it had everything to do with it. World War I basically
destroyed the cream of a generation for France. After the horrors of the
first war, it was decided that sending their men off to die in the trenches
was stupid, and that they were better off just making things so difficult
on the enemy that an attack would never come. Unfortunately for the French,
the attack did come, but not where they had prepared for it, and due to
this France did not have the means avaible to respond properly.
In short, the French army got their butt kicked in WWII because they
were trying to avoild another WWI.