According to the standard telling of the tale, the Maginot Line, the most expensive military project ever undertaken at the time—the F-35 of it’s day—was a mighty, nigh-unassailable fortification, ...

Key Point: Not unlike many an expensive military project, the Maginot Line was not all it was advertised to be. According to the standard telling of the tale, the Maginot Line, the most expensive ...

Robbie Gramer and Rachel Rizzo wrote a nifty article this week likening China’s anti-access/area-denial strategy (A2/AD) and forces to the Maginot Line, the ...

In the late 1920s, the French minister of war was one Andre Maginot, a World War I veteran with a handlebar mustache and a limp. M. Maginot, learning the lessons of the last war, had the idea that if ...

The French suffered terrible losses in the trenches in World War I. To prevent, or at least delay, a future German invasion, they built a series of large underground fortifications on France’s eastern ...

On May 10, 1940, Nazi Germany invaded Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, swinging 89 army divisions around France's ...

For the month of August, we have chosen to feature two original contributions in Strategic Outpost from our next generation of national security thinkers. We hope you enjoy these thoughtful pieces ...

AFTER the carnage of the First World War, France responded to the horrors of trench warfare by building the ultimate trenches – the infamous Maginot Line, a system of almost 5,000 individual ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In the 1930s the Maginot Line was viewed as a military marvel, an impregnable network of underground fortifications stretching along France’s border with ...

WIESBADEN, Germany - History was not kind to the grand ideas of French Minister of War Andre Maginot. As the namesake for the massive line of fortifications intended to stop Germany from ever again ...

In response to the costliest battle in history, the Battle of Verdun, Marshal Joseph Joffre first proposed a line of fortifications be built to defend the open borders of the French frontier bordering ...