The real assault on science By Vox Day
Having little trust in titles or Germans, the French began to construct a massive series of fortifications 12 years after the end of "the war to end all wars." The Maginot Line consisted of 142 forts plus another 352 armored gun emplacements connected by tunnels and railways that stretched the full 87 miles of the Franco-German border. It worked, in a manner of speaking, as the German attacks on it were easily withstood, but it now stands as one of history's most famous examples of futility as the German commander Heinz Guderian simply sent von Kleist's two Panzer Corps through the Ardennes and around the line in the classic example of blitzkrieg.
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