Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Post B quarter three week three

This chapter of the book focused on the French side of the war, for they are preparing for a war against Germany. They are doing this for two reasons: one because they believe Germany is going to attack them, but importantly they themselves have had their prides hurt by Germany and so if Germany doesn't attack soon, they themselves will prepare to invade Germany. Their war- winning strategy, in their opinion, is not of brilillant battle tatics, but rather, by using... Spirit? They believe that they can not win this war if their conquering spirit is not felt by every individual in the French army. So if thats not asking for some disaster to happen, I don't know what is. The biggest part that is going to kick them in the face is their pride. One of the things that the war council of France needed to do was to boost the moral of the French, which one general thought was obtainable by replacing the old French uniforms with new ones. He was thinking strategically too because he wanted to change the bright red leggings of the French to a grey/tan color so the French troops would be harder to see from a long range. Well, the French were outraged by the idea that their red pants would be replaced by a not as "fun" color. Hence, French pride played a huge part in getting their soldiers killed by making them easy targets....

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