>they wouldn't possibly invade through belgium! >well

Not quite the same. The Allies actually did anticipate another invasion through Belgium and the Netherlands and drew up plans to meet the Germans there. What they got wrong was assuming that the Germans couldn't go through the Ardennes region and would be forced to meet them further north.

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Autism was thinking that fixed fortifications over a long frontier would have any effect against mobile artillery. You just concentrate your forces against a single point, breakthough, then swing around and either attack the remaining forces from behind or just leave them there isolated in their little holes.

Yes, the entire history of France post-1871 was autism

They built the first part (along Alsace-Lorraine) and they were getting ready for the Belgium-Luxembourg part when the Great Depression hit.

>>2584653
no.
french managed to hold off a fucking powerhouse of an empire for four years in a battle of attrition

>>2584486
The French were confident that if Germany were to invade through Belgium, the crossing of Belgium would allow them and the British enough time to respond to it. After all, it took 2 months for Germany to fully nail down Belgium in the First World War, more than enough time to position units either in Belgium or on the border to meet German units.

They didn't expect the Germans to pass through the Ardennes forest and enter France in a matter of days in such large numbers.

Essentially, the French couldn't respond to such rapidly developing events. It was so fast that by the time Central Command received reports from the front, the front's position was already overrun by the time they issued orders in response to the outdated report.

>>2584486
It's because there were dense forests in the way through belgium, so the french expected that Hitler would not take that route, and were swiftly proven wrong.

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>>2584776
so it was autism then

>>2584633

Yeah, because the enemy is retarded and wouldn't concentrate their forces too right in the bottleneck you are trying to break and pass through.

>>2584486
if they would have fortificated the area around belgium just as much Germany would have ignored Belgium and the meme would be that France invested in fortificating that area which was never invaded instead of investing in anything else that would have helped them

The Maginot Line did its job. Even the Germans that came at it from the rear had some difficulty in assaulting it.

The real failure was in how the British and French were prepared for the fight.

The French military was fairly modern in equipment. Yet it was still organized and run by WW1 mindset leaders.