只有戴高乐他的分析是正确的。

 

在他最有影响力的书《走向职业化的军队》[14]中，戴高乐对法国军队的防御性政策提出了挑战，而是敦促采取基于进攻性装甲战的战略姿态。

当时，法国正在沿其与德国的东部边境建造据说是坚不可摧的马奇诺防线，这条防线在1940年被证明对德国通过比利时发动的装甲入侵毫无用处。

他的建议被法国军队忽视，但却在1930年代中期被德国采纳，并在几年后被德国对法国的胜利所证明。

 

In his most influential book, Toward a Professional Army,[14]

de Gaulle challenged the defensive policies of the French military, urging instead a strategic posture based on offensive armored warfare. At that time, France was constructing the presumably impregnable Maginot Line along its eastern frontier with Germany, which in 1940 would prove spectacularly useless against an armored German invasion via Belgium. His recommendations, ignored by the French army, would instead be adopted in Germany in the mid-1930s and vindicated by the German victory over France only a few years later.

 

戴高乐在战争初期就意识到，美国最终会被卷入其中，从而使力量的天平向轴心国倾斜。

将美国排列在一起反对它的一方有祸了。

戴高乐在1940年7月宣称："在自由世界里，巨大的力量还没有做出贡献，"他补充说。

 

De Gaulle grasped early in the war that America would eventually be drawn in, thereby tipping the balance of forces against the Axis powers. Woe to the side that would array America against it. ‘In the free world, immense powers have not yet made their contributions,’ de Gaulle proclaimed in July 1940, adding:

　  　

有一天，这些大国将粉碎敌人。

在那一天，法国必须站在胜利的一边。

如果她站在了那一边，她就会变得和以前一样，成为一个伟大而独立的国家。

这，也只有这，才是我的目标[15]。

 

One day, these powers will crush the enemy. On that day France must be on the side of victory. If she is, she will become what she was before, a great and independent nation. That, and that alone, is my goal.[15]

 

　  　

但是，在一个重复的模式中，戴高乐在他同时代的法国军人中，只有他的分析是正确的。

 

But, in a repeating pattern, de Gaulle was alone among his French military contemporaries in getting this analysis correct.