Bionic soldiers get go-ahead

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Well the Chinese have already been doing it so... I have no problem telling the French to go get em.
 
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Who will be the first to post a joke about implanting the ability for a soldier to raise their arms in surrender?
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They’ll have springs on their arms that make them go up faster!
 
The only problem will be that the weapons will be built into the arm and they won’t be able to drop them when surrendering!
 
I don't care what anybody says, they have a great national anthem
 
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RedneckFur said:
The jokes can be funny, but any student of history knows France has the worlds most successful military and a record of military victories unmatched by any nation past or present.
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Interesting claim. I tried documenting this and found (i) a reddit thread linking (ii) a wikipedia article referencing (iii) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/135753.The_Cash_Nexus

Counting battles as the author appears to do seems a bit myopic; not particularly well-defined; and limited in scope. But, my degrees are not in history.
 
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RedneckFur said:
The jokes can be funny, but any student of history knows France has the worlds most successful military and a record of military victories unmatched by any nation past or present.
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True, but their last few seasons haven't been real successful. They're good at whack a mole, snatch & grabs & putting down small scale insurrections. A definite niche player, but no longer ready for the big show.

In truth, most Euro militaries are pretty squared away, but like ours, political leadership sets em up for failure every time. For the NATO troops, their national caveats are ridiculous.
 
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RedneckFur said:
The jokes can be funny, but any student of history knows France has the worlds most successful military and a record of military victories unmatched by any nation past or present.
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It's their history that's the problem, or that they hung on to it too long. They rode into battle in WWI dressed like they were riding with Napoleon. Right into machine gun batteries and artillery. It took them two world wars to figure out they needed to get ready for modern warfare in a big way. And that was mostly de Gualle, who the leadership wanted to execute.
 
Yeah, the French catch a lot of crap, but it’s mainly their 1935-present day activities that bunch em up.

They did a lions share of the fighting in WWI, and if it weren’t for them the Brits would likely have been crushed at Dunkirk. They made some pretty horrid mistakes in the beginning of WWII, but many in the country never stopped fighting even during occupation and that greatly helped when we arrived.

The US fighting man and the history of our military is incredibly amazing. But we have to remember that during both WWI and WWII we arrived late to the party and most other armies had been throwing punches and getting hardened (and weakened) for years prior to us throwing down.

I would dare even say that without the French resistance and the Brits holding out in the Battle of Britain then the DDay landings never would have happened, or would have been a diabolical disaster.

Now their actions in Southeast Asia were also pretty weak, but they were still trying to get on their feet after WWII and were facing pretty horrid odds and a strong and determined enemy that we (with no disrespect to Vietnam vets) never really were able to soundly defeat either. Yes, we won every battle, but we did pull out. And we came in with better equipment and more men and better infrastructure to support it.


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First military to adopt a smokeless powder cartridge - based rifle, right? 8mm Lebel. So they like new technology... and moldy cheese.

Interesting combo.

Anyway, WTB MAS 36 in good condition.

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Windini said:
First military to adopt a smokeless powder cartridge - based rifle, right? 8mm Lebel. So they like new technology... and moldy cheese.

Interesting combo.

Anyway, WTB MAS 36 in good condition.

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You just have to wipe the mud off of them! 🤣😂😝
 
The French bionic soldier won’t just drop his weapon when he runs away. He will YEET that bitch 100 miles.
 
RedneckFur said:
The jokes can be funny, but any student of history knows France has the worlds most successful military and a record of military victories unmatched by any nation past or present.
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Rome ruled the world and now their language is dead.
 
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I was standing with my boss, a Major overlook the runway at Kandahar Air Field. A French Mirage freighter jet was taking off ...unarmed. He magpie the comment that the 2 of us standing here looking had more weapons on us than that French jet did! He was right!
 
RedneckFur said:
The jokes can be funny, but any student of history knows France has the worlds most successful military and a record of military victories unmatched by any nation past or present.
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That was mostly back when they rode horses into battle with pagans. To date, they haven’t been able to fight their way out of a drainage ditch. Nobody wants them on their flanks because they run. And nobody wants to fight beside of them because they stink! The only thing that the French brought to Afghanistan was women that could fill out a set of BDUs! But they had enough hair under their arms to knit a sweater out of! 🤮
 
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