Originally Posted by P.I.Staker

But before you do that, have a good read of this to get a grip of French military prowess:
Text / The Complete Military History of France

This is revisionism at its worst.

- French Revolution
- Won, primarily due the fact that the opponent was also French.
WRONG! The French (Government) LOST to the french in the French Revolution, and to french peasants at that. How humiliating can it get?

- World War I
- Tied and on the way to losing, France is saved by the United States
WRONG! The French would have LOST if the Brits hadn't been there to stave off the Germans. The US arrival is arguably the icing on the cake, as the Brits had developed the means and tactics to put mobile warfare back on the menu. With the Americans plugging the gaps in the rear area left by the advancing Allies, the Germans recognized that they were out resourced and did the sensible thing.

The French had got so fed up with losing to the Germans that, in 1917, some of them felt they had no choice but to attack the only people they felt certain they could achieve some small measure of victory against ... that's right, the French and even then they lost (French Army Mutinies (1917) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia). They tried the same trick in WW2, splitting up into the Vichy French and Free French . Amazingly, even with German support, the French still lost to the French.

- Thousands of French women find out what it's like to not only sleep with a winner, but one who doesn't call her "Fraulein."
Millions of French women already knew that by the good graces of the British Tommy and their Imperial Australian, Kiwi, Indian and Canadian counterparts (although obviously there was probably some french-on-french with the last mentioned).

- Sadly, widespread use of condoms by American forces forestalls any improvement in the French bloodline.
Even without the condoms, it would have been a drop in the ocean. As we discovered the hard way, it takes a lot longer than a mere 4 years to dilute 'frenchness' as we weren't thorough enough in ensuring brothers never met their sisters (and not issuing the Québécois with enough condoms).


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As this isn't NAAFI, I suppose I should add the obligatory statement that there were actually some damn fine fighting French men and women who deserve the respect and admiration of warriors everywhere.

But as I'm a Brit, I must add the obligatory codicil that nobody knows who they are.

We won the ones we cared about.

Steady on now chaps, I'm willing to give our chum the benefit of the doubt for the moment.

Here are a few you missed!!!!

Ive worked with French regular infantry , what a bunch of pretentious light weight sloppy cnuts, fact.

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Look into the OP as a boring example.

I just posted on your other thread. My reply seems to apply here as well:

0311, are you 14 years old? You see, most people over the course of their lives come to the mature realisation that no one nation is any 'harder' or 'tougher' than any other. You win some, you lose some. With over 300 years of history, fighting campaigns in every corner of the globe, the British Army has had more than enough of both. By any objective standard, we haven't done too badly over the years.

And by the way, if you become so consumed with hatred of a country that you spend hours researching and typing out cherry-picked negative history about it, you can safely consider yourself a very silly little man.

Lets be mature... the French gave into Hitler, thus procuring their fanny status till the end of time

The frogs still want their beloved Eagle of the 45e back.......fcukin wingers.
Wouldn't surprise me if the treaty cameron signed included them getting it back.

The one and only thing I envy about the french, They still have their OWN indigenious Military/Industrial production....grrrrr.

Originally Posted by Robbo_72

The frogs still want their beloved Eagle of the 45e back.......fcukin wingers.
Wouldn't surprise me if the treaty cameron signed included them getting it back.

The one and only thing I envy about the french, They still have their OWN indigenious Military/Industrial production....grrrrr.

No they dont as far as I know ,GIAT and the likes have gone!