There was a lot to be said about the inability of people to properly innovate. For whatever reasons, humans tended to cling to what had proven to work, even if it was no longer as functional as it had once been.
This was a phenomenon witnessed across all levels of human society, even among those at the top. And those were perhaps the worst offenders, as often times their refusal to embrace new ideas that were forward thinking rather than trapped in the past could be paid for with the lives of those beneath their authority.
And that was exactly what happened when despite being given a glimpse of the future of warfare, Pétain chose to order his men into positions just as they had done in the battle prior where their ranks were shattered quickly under the exceptional mobility of the enemy.
