“…These failures related directly to the preparation and (lack of) innovation during the interwar years and the resulting effects on operational doctrine and strategy (Boot, 2006;Doughty, 1985;Murray & Millett, 1996;Posen, 1984). France had missed numerous opportunities to learn from the extensive events in WWI (Murray, 2006), to craft something other than the methodical battle doctrine 8 (Bond & Alexander, 1986), to experiment further with aviation (Muller, 1996) and armored technology (Beaufre, 1968), the latter of which they had pioneered but basically dropped for a number of years (Murray, 1996).…”