James Holland

go across the border, kind of pick their noses for a few days and then kind of trundle back again.

And it's just, it's embarrassing. And that is, what you're seeing there is a nation which is just... not ready for this, which is scared, which is politically divided, which is then having a knock-on effect on the decision-making process, and which is just consumed by military complacency. And that's the big problem. The commanders at the very top of the French regime are complacent.

And it's just, it's embarrassing. And that is, what you're seeing there is a nation which is just... not ready for this, which is scared, which is politically divided, which is then having a knock-on effect on the decision-making process, and which is just consumed by military complacency. And that's the big problem. The commanders at the very top of the French regime are complacent.

And it's just, it's embarrassing. And that is, what you're seeing there is a nation which is just... not ready for this, which is scared, which is politically divided, which is then having a knock-on effect on the decision-making process, and which is just consumed by military complacency. And that's the big problem. The commanders at the very top of the French regime are complacent.

And it's just, it's embarrassing.

And that is, what you're seeing there is a nation which is just...

not ready for this, which is scared, which is politically divided, which is then having a knock-on effect on the decision-making process, and which is just consumed by military complacency.

And that's the big problem.

The commanders at the very top of the French regime are complacent.

They haven't bought into modern ways.

They haven't bought into modern ways. They haven't looked at how contemporary technology could help them. I mean, it is absurd, for example, that there isn't a single radio in the Chateau de Vincennes, which is the headquarters of the Commander-in-Chief of the French Armed Forces, General Marshal Maurice Gamelin. I mean, it's just unbelievable. But that is the case.

They haven't bought into modern ways. They haven't looked at how contemporary technology could help them. I mean, it is absurd, for example, that there isn't a single radio in the Chateau de Vincennes, which is the headquarters of the Commander-in-Chief of the French Armed Forces, General Marshal Maurice Gamelin. I mean, it's just unbelievable. But that is the case.

They haven't bought into modern ways. They haven't looked at how contemporary technology could help them. I mean, it is absurd, for example, that there isn't a single radio in the Chateau de Vincennes, which is the headquarters of the Commander-in-Chief of the French Armed Forces, General Marshal Maurice Gamelin. I mean, it's just unbelievable. But that is the case.

They haven't looked at

how contemporary technology could help them.

I mean, it is absurd, for example, that there isn't a single radio in the Chateau de Vincennes, which is the headquarters of the Commander-in-Chief of the French Armed Forces, General Marshal Maurice Gamelin.

I mean, it's just unbelievable.

But that is the case.

And there's no getting away from that. And it is all the more ironic when you consider that France is actually the most automotive society in Europe. It's the second most automotive society in the world after the United States. By some margin, it has to be said as well. You know, it has a fantastic transportation system. Railway network is superb.

And there's no getting away from that. And it is all the more ironic when you consider that France is actually the most automotive society in Europe. It's the second most automotive society in the world after the United States. By some margin, it has to be said as well. You know, it has a fantastic transportation system. Railway network is superb.