re: #144 Dark_Falcon

A blockhouse is a good monument to the blockheaded overreliance on fixed fortifications by France in 1940.

Well, to be scrupulous fair, the Maginot Line DID work, in 1940, exactly as it was supposed to: i.e., deter/deflect a German invasion along its perimeter.

Not that that excuses the French military from that “blockheadedness” award, though: their main problem in 1940 was that they hadn’t seriously thought out the eventual German workaround for the M-Line (a motorized assault through the Ardennes). Hell, even the Germans took a while to come up with that solution - but it worked. Spectacularly. Which in war, is the only metric worth mentioning…