Ironduke

Yeah, the Maginot Line was flawed because it only streched across the French-German frontier, and not the French-Belgian frontier, allowing the Germans to swing down through the Low Countries and attack it from behind. IIRC, the Maginot Line's defenses were fairly fixed facing toward Germany, therefore making it useless in the event that the Germans attacked it from behind.

I'm no military expert, and I say this with the hindsight we have with WWII, but if I were in charge, I would have abandoned static defenses, and drawn the center of the German army groups in on a highly mobile fast moving force in the center, the outflanked it and cut off its lines from the rear.

Even if they Germans decided on a frontal assault on the Maginot Line, I think it's very likely they would have succeeded quite easily. As with any long, static defense line, the defenders have to man the length fairly uniformly, while the attackers can concentrate their forces at a specific point and break through.

The Maginot Line sucked up men and material that would have been better used in a mobile force. 41 French divisions, I've read.

Confed999

That's my answer too. The Maginot Line sucked, because it didn't move.

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