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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

France's Maginot Line might not have kept out the Germans, but for our July issue, photographer, Alexandre Guirkinger, and artist-cum-creative director, Mathias Kiss, proved that, with a few home ...

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 ...

This French line of defense, constructed during the 1930s along the border with Germany, is named after Minister of War André ...

After the horrific events of World War I, France was convinced that the German menace was not gone forever. To better protect their country from another devastating German invasion, French military ...

Across Europe, nations have signaled a desire to dig, wire, and network their frontiers. From the Baltic Defense Line and the European Union’s proposed ...