That something was the Ligne Maginot, now more commonly known as the Maginot Line. The defensive line of fortifications was ...

Nazi Germany invaded Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, swinging 89 army divisions around France's so-called impregnable Maginot Line.

In the 1930s the Maginot Line was viewed as a military marvel, an impregnable network of underground fortifications stretching along France's border with Germany — from Belgium to Switzerland ...

Presumably the Maginot image above is the period equivalent to ... in the same way the French military planned the Maginot line: preparing for a past that isn't going to repeat itself.

It's a well-thought-out 20-metre killing field and it proved completely useless. Welcome to the Maginot Line, one of the biggest military flops of all time. French bunker ruin near ...

is to be ready to hurt the enemy more than he can hurt the U.S. “A Maginot Line on the ground is bad enough,” said one Air Force officer last week. “There isn’t any line you can hold in ...

The worst outcome would be to invest those funds in a modern Maginot line of expensive, vulnerable defences. We must learn from Kyiv, and spend better.