is it too cliche to see this as a microcosm of France and the United States overall?
France expects to hold on to their colonial projects, so their institutions reflect that and produce soldiers actually capable of carrying out the orders of empire.
The United States is only in a region either until local resistance pushes them out or capital has finished hollowing out any remaining infrastructure, so their soldiers really only have to terrorize the locals until the Chinooks arrive to airlift them out at the last possible moment.
is it too cliche to see this as a microcosm of France and the United States overall?
France expects to hold on to their colonial projects, so their institutions reflect that and produce soldiers actually capable of carrying out the orders of empire.
The United States is only in a region either until local resistance pushes them out or capital has finished hollowing out any remaining infrastructure, so their soldiers really only have to terrorize the locals until the Chinooks arrive to airlift them out at the last possible moment.
Don't forget the French running after the yanks like good little doggies to clean up