Think again.

French did start wars for their own advantage (and won most).
French are historically successfully belligerent (as a comparatively united entity) therefore have the advantage.
French wore a whole heap of crap as a wholely and partly occupied nation (in the front line) than others esp Poms. Therefore for them to be disparaged as "ineffective" is a yankwank.
So called Aussies (of Pom ancestry and in the so called "upper classes" circa WW2)were Quislings (thus noted by Japanese) and sympathetic to the Japanese cause if they invaded/occupied.
Most Yanks don't understand the flux of events in the BIG world.