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To: hmaly who wrote (163136)	3/7/2003 12:42:19 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1573211

The incompetence was things like leaving a wide flank open because tanks could not make it through the "impassable" Ardennes. And moving units around France for no discernable purpose, and failing to coordinate effective responses to German moves. Once the army started losing badly then the leaders displayed some cowardice but the initial problem was that many of them just didn't know how to do their job. It seems to me that France has frequently suffered from poor military leadership ever since Napoleon. Napoleon was a good military leader as where a lot of his senior officers but since then you have things like what happened in WWII and Dien Bien Phu. Tim