[lbo-talk] french love of thugs (with style)

W. Kiernan wkiernan at gmail.com
Sat Nov 14 16:12:03 PST 2009


Bill Quimby wrote:

>

> 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



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