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Originally Posted by zraver
Which last time? Hadrians Wall did its job, as doid the virtual wall of Roman legionare camps on the borders of Germania (at least until the legions were called to Persia). The Maginot Line and the great Wall worked where they were built to spec etc.
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The "last time" was a ref to the US and Pakistan stirring up a insurgency and I meant the Taliban.
I did say some wall was better than no wall. Even so I don't think your comparison with Germania would stand. The Germanic legions were strung up across the Rhine and the Danube and there was no other wall per se.
Also the Maginot line did not fail because it was not build up to spec. It failed because the German invasion route through the Ardennes and the low countries simply bypassed the Maginot line. The only germans stationed opposite the line were a decoy group.
Besides in both cases the comparison is wrong because the idea was to stop an invasion not an insurgency. Its always harder to detect people coming over in groups of tens than it is to detect people coming over in the thousands.