To be fair, the French generals didn't help themselves, hanging out in Chateaux behind the front, coordinating everything via motorbike messengers with slips of paper rather than that new-fangled "telephone" gizmo. Not putting radios in their tanks. And so on.
Wrong to seek a technical explanation for what was at root a political problem, the elite of french society especially the officer corps was lousy with reactionaries, and when you dig into a failure of personel equipment or doctrine you often find various forms of haphazard coup proofing.
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