Don’t Believe Your Own Illusions

And Why the Maginot Line Did Its Job

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Okay, so clearly it wasn’t a success. For almost a century, France’s World War II defense has been an example of outdated thinking and a failure to adapt. It epitomizes the fallacy of trying to solve tomorrow’s problems with yesterday’s logic.

The Maginot Line was the product of traditional thinking that went back to ancient times — build a big…