>Beyond the fact that rifles are irrelevant except for the marine crayon eaters and the anglos, the French had modern rifles available with the MAS-36 and the remaining rifles they had were good enough.
Nope, MAS 36 didn't been produced in a enough large scale and most of french soldier still used Lebel
>The French did use radios, just read the following page about radios
france1940.free.fr/armee/radios.html
They tended to really love telephone wires and couriers, and were particularly bad operationally with radios, but they did have them and they used them.
The use of radio wasn't systematic contrary to Germans
>What are you arguing about with being composed of 3.3 million soldiers in 1918? That the French army in 1918 was larger? The French 1940 army reached technically around 5 million men iirc, but the French had global responsibilities.
That the French army should had deployed more than 3 M across French border in order to win
>You're not responding to the guy's claims. The French managed to cause great harm to German air power in 1940.
The loses are due to anti-aircraft gun, most of the french airplanes were taken down on the floor
Also, the Germans had more than 4000 aircraft, the french, something like 2500
>The French produced an equivalent amount of tanks in 1940 (1,245), to the British (1,399, despite only having half of the year available. French production was ramping up constantly throughout 1940.
Yes, they produced a lot of tank but their production of primary resources such as steel, coal... and GDP was too low to compete with Germans and every Allied power.
>French didn't want to fight a long war
Useless opinion and conjecture
Nonsense
The French didn't wanted to have a new world war with Germany like in WW1, they only declared war against Germany as a warned and was expecting a peace after the collapse of Poland by no attacking German before may 1940
The French of 1914 would had launch a massive offensive