Gunrunner
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From the album After Action Reports
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From the album After Action Reports
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From the album After Action Reports
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From the album After Action Reports
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From the album After Action Reports
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From the album After Action Reports
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From the album After Action Reports
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From the album After Action Reports
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From the album After Action Reports
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From the album After Action Reports
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From the album After Action Reports
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From the album After Action Reports
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From the album After Action Reports
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From the album After Action Reports
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From the album After Action Reports
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From the album After Action Reports
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From the album After Action Reports
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From the album After Action Reports
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Ezlead, to be fair, in the case of the battle of France, the French Etat-Major was as incompetent as the political power, and like it they gave up any real effort to fight the instant they realised the Germans didn't show up where intended. They were the ones who ignored doctrinal suggestions from the new generation, who didn't push for a wider and faster adoption of the more recent hardware, who thought the Maginot Line would keep the Germans at bay, and when they simply ignored it, started giving contradictory orders and reacting as if it were 1918. It was a typical exemple of a political and strategic victory, with no clear tactical advantage (the Battle in the Air proved as bloody as the Battle of Britain would be, and until Stalingrad, the French part of the Battle of France remained the bloodiest for the Germans). At least we didn't have our former king betraying us... (it always amazed me the Duke of Windsor didn't meet an untimely death at the hands of a "german U-boat" while en route to the Bahamas)
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From the album NF4++ - 62-63 - WiP