It is the touchstone of modern French military doctrine, a primary reference for the French army’s most recent high-level doctrinal publication, Future Land Action (2016), and the beginning of French ...

How big is the French military? In 2020, the French Ministry of Defence directly employed more than 269,000 people. 55.8 percent of these personnel were army, 19.5 percent were in the airforce and ...

And it is imperative that military action complement all the other actions taken in parallel, or taken beforehand to prepare the military action. One can see here connections between Beaufre’s ideas ...

The Centurions clearly sides with the army (against Gaullist-Louisism): for M. Larteguy, the revivification of the French army has a much more specific ideological purpose than re-capturing la gloire.

For Macron, French military power is unassailable and akin to the kind of power once enjoyed by the likes of Napoleon. To reinforce his notion of modern French military supremacy, Macron has big ...

Claude Simon’s 1960 novel, The Flanders Road, painted a picture of an outdated French army, ground down by months of a phoney war, fighting against a much better equipped, more modern German enemy.

Col Bouffard explained that there are three types of infantry battalions in the French Army: heavy, equipped with the Véhicule Blindé de Combat d'Infanterie (VBCI); medium, with the new Griffon ...