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Listening to Blueprint for Arm. So the German Empire decides to go through neutral Belgium and provoke the Brits because the French have all these forts on their border. Belgium also has forts though, and Dan talks about these colossal German artillery cannons (I think they were 16 inch, 300,000 pounds?) being brought to cripple the forts and knocking them out one after another.

My question is, why couldn’t the Germans have simply used those guns on the forts that were on the French border? They would have saved themselves a lot of trouble. Were they superior forts or something?

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Simply put the Belgium were a softer touch. That or they expected them to just move aside!

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