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Maginot Line: Defenses
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The Maginot Line was a powerful line of defense which stretched from Switzerland to the Ardennes in the North, and from the Alps to the Mediterranean in the South. It was a vast, dynamic, state-of-the-art, ultra-modern defensive system. Most of its components were underground, where interconnecting tunnels stretched for kilometers, and where, beneath the earth, thousands of men slept, trained, watched, and waited for a war that never came.
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The Maginot Line is considered one of the greatest blunders in military history, but historians now recognize that it was not entirely a failure. The failure was the military's over-reliance on one part of a larger defense strategy. It was a flawed defense strategy that was never fully implemented.
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The idea behind the construction of the Maginot Line came from France's success in holding a trench line along 400 miles of territory against a powerful German army, and the failure of her pre-war doctrine of "the offensive." If France could hold off the Kaiser's armies for four years with barbed wire and ditches, why not adapt that theory in a permanent system of defenses along the border?
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For a long time it can be assumed that Didact worked in the Maginot line frequently sending transmissions from it to the Librarian asking her to return behind it where he said his fleets could protect her. Although it was a defense against the flood it cannot be assumed that the flood conquered all worlds that were outside of it as Earth,- which we know was outside it- was presumably not infected because the Librarian was on it looking at how beautiful it was before the Array fired.
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