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School Shooting in Southern France

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A leadership and a tactical/strategical screwup. The majority of the French army (still remembering WW1, and trained in the old tactics) was still trying to create a static defense (the Marginot line). That was just useless once the Germans kinda ran through Belgium and bypassed the defenses.

There just wasn't a real answer to the German blitzkrieg at that moment. It wasn't a conquering of the land, it was a push straight for the capital/political leaders to break the organizational strength of whichever country they wanted (both military and political organization).
 
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Odd as it may sound, the Polish defense likely had the best strategy. They rode out to meet and thrash the blitzkrieg initial rush.

Problem was they used horse cavalry against tanks.

But they also went to hard point defenses instead of static lines. So while the German tanks just rolled over Polish mobile forces the Polish hardpoint defense against the German foot infantry that followed was stubborn. With better armor options the Poland invasion could have turned into a quagmire right at the outset of the war. The Polish were astute enough to recognize and counter the blitzkrieg properly but they had the wrong tools for the job. But then most folks don't read enough history to realize that the Poles were always as strategic and tactical minded as their Prussian neighbors.
 
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