Re: [OT] French was: [SG]Artillery

At 6:41 PM -0700 5/27/02, John Atkinson wrote:
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>2 weeks less than did the defenses of Poland, a
>country surrounded on every side but the north, with
>an army less than a quarter the size of the French
>one, with no medium or heavy tanks, a tiny and
>outdated airforce, and the Russians invading from the
>East.

Poland also didn't have an ally with expeditionary forces in country 
to help stem the tide of enemy advances.

>Of course, the Poles had fighting spirit and that
>counts for much more than heavy tanks and static
>fortresses.

Well, had the poles had the heavy tanks and static fortresses on one 
of the fronts, they'd probably have really made the russians and 
germans hurt far more than they did.
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