{"id":393499,"date":"2019-01-20T11:21:02","date_gmt":"2019-01-20T10:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/go-study-the-maginot-line\/"},"modified":"2019-01-20T11:21:02","modified_gmt":"2019-01-20T10:21:02","slug":"go-study-the-maginot-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/go-study-the-maginot-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Go Study the Maginot Line"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u2018Good fences make good neighbors,\u2019 wrote American poet Robert Frost. \u00a0But not according to President Donald Trump whose proposed Great Wall is supposed to protect the nation from hordes of rabid, murderous, drug crazed rapists and unwhites from south of the border.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m a life-long student of military architecture, with a particular passion for modern fortification, chief among which is France\u2019s own Great Wall, the magnificent and unfairly reviled Maginot Line.<\/p>\n

Given the heated debate in America over Trump\u2019s proposed barrier along the Mexican border, it\u2019s worth looking back to the Maginot Line.\u00a0 It was supposed to have been France\u2019s savior after the bloodbath of World War I.<\/p>\n

Proposed by Deputy Andr\u00e9 Maginot in the 1920\u2019s, the Line was supposed to cover key parts of France\u2019s frontiers with German and Italy.\u00a0 Due to the terrible losses of the Great War, France did not have enough soldiers to properly defend its long frontiers.\u00a0 So it made sense to erect fortifications to compensate for manpower weakness and to block surprise attacks from next door enemy forces.
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The first large Maginot fort was built in the 1920\u2019s north of Nice to protect the Cote d\u2019Azur from possible Italian attacks. \u00a0Mussolini was demanding France return the Riviera coast to its former Italian rulers.\u00a0 Work on the principal Line along the German and Luxemburg borders began soon after. Phase one covered 260 miles from near the Rhine to Longuyon, a rail junction south of the Belgian border.<\/p>\n

The Line consisted of hundreds of steel and concrete machine gun and anti-tank casemates with interlocking flanking…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Special for LewRockwell.com \u2018Good fences make good neighbors,\u2019 wrote American poet Robert Frost. \u00a0But not according to President Donald Trump whose proposed Great Wall is supposed to protect the nation from hordes of rabid, murderous, drug crazed rapists and unwhites from south of the border. I\u2019m a life-long student of military architecture, with a particular […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-393499","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}