re: #462 BigMoo

Believe it or not, the French (mainly Foreign Legion, but hey, it’s the French Foreign Legion) in Afghanistan have excelled at anti-insurgent combat. My son is in theater and advises that they are practically having to restrain the French troops, who are showing ‘impressive aggression’.
Go figure.

individual French soldiers have always been quite good as have some units. The higher military leadership of France? It has always sucked. The possible exception would be Napoleon and he was mostly Italian of some sort.