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> I've run into the term "Systeme D" before when
> reading about the French military response to the
> German advance in WWI. If I remember correctly it
> was then a reference to the actuality that after
> the carefully planned systems A, then B, then C
> failed, there was inevitably D - the equivalent
> to our military's FUBAR, F*cked Up Beyond All
> Recognition.
I read somewhere it was short for, or back-defined as, "systeme debrouille" or "the plan is, improvise as needed."
yrs wdk