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Originally Posted by PIMking
Not to mention that they were set up completely on a defensive platform and were outflanked on the mag line
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they like a lot of people still expected WW2 to be dominated by static trench warfare. They didn't see anyone mastering the combined arms stuff quite as quickly as Germany.
We are talking about 100's of years of warfare tactics here, just like navies of the world didn't foresee the impact of naval aviation and were content to continue to roll out massive battlewagons.
When you make a assumption in how you think the enemy is going to fight a war, and your wrong you rarely recover.
The German's showed all kinds of signs of going to a rapid mobile armored based warfare heavily supported by Aircraft and rolling artillary.
The French still expected the German's to bravely dash into the mag line a top of their horses and boots dying bravely for Germany and all that.
"Don't worry" was the cry "The forest will stop them, excelsior"