ABSTRACT
Maginot Line The French military lacked the experience with a mobile and fluid campaign gained by the Germans in the east and they underestimated the mobile potential of the tank. Believing that France could not endure another bloodbath like that experienced from 1914 through 1918, it placed its hope for a future war in defense. The lesson belatedly learned by the French military in World War I was that the side that remained on the defensive suffered fewer casualties than the side that attacked.
