Seeds of Disaster, The - The Development of French Army Doctrine 1919-1939

French weakness was not caused by neglect. The author, Doughty, shows: but the controlled and methodical battles France had prepared in the interwar years to fight were precisely the kind Germany intended to avoid. While the French military attempted to hold to the Maginot Line and advance into Belgium, the Germans sliced into their center and cut the army in pieces. The French army had formulated a doctrine, devised a strategy, organized and equipped its units, and trained its personnel for the wrong type of war.