WIESBADEN, Germany - History was not kind to the grand ideas of French Minister of War Andre Maginot. As the namesake for the massive line of fortifications intended to stop Germany from ever again ...
The petit ouvrages had three or four blockhouses each, in a rough hemisphere to the front, still vulnerably to being bypassed and attacked in the flank, while the grands ouvrages had six to eight, in ...
Similarly, the French Maginot Line, a 300-mile series of fortifications along the eastern border of France, failed to anticipate the all-terrain battery of bombers and armored vehicles that Germany ...
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This French line of defense, constructed during the 1930s along the border with Germany, is named after Minister of War André Maginot. It extends from La Ferté to the Rhine River, with sections also ...
May 10 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1865, Confederate President Jefferson Davis was captured by Union troops. He spent the next two years in prison. In 1869, the "golden spike" was driven at ...
The Maginot Line: thousands of subway bunkers and concrete defenses lining the French border from Belgium to the Mediterranean Sea, a monumental engineering feat that was celebrated as a technical ...
Robert Frost was neither a military strategist nor policy wonk, but his poem “Mending Wall” captures the paradox of defensive walls. While walls are often built to defend against others, those same ...
May 10 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1865, Confederate President Jefferson Davis was captured by Union troops. He spent the next two years in prison. In 1869, the "golden spike" was driven at ...
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