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and supports negotiations leading toward a universal ban. The French are key players in the adaptation of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe to the new strategic environment. France remains an active participant in: the major programs to restrict the transfer of technologies that could
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in the EU. As of 2021, the total active personnel of the French Armed Forces is 270,000. While the reserve personnel is 63,700 (including the National Gendarmerie), for a total of 333,000 personnel (excluding the active personnel of the National Gendarmerie). If we include the active personnel of the
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environment. In December 1995, France announced that it would increase its participation in NATO's military wing, including the Military Committee (France withdrew from NATO's military bodies in 1966 whilst remaining full participants in the Organisation's political Councils). France remains a firm
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will be the primary task of the French military. Redundant military bases will be closed and new weapons systems projects put on hold to finance the restructuring and global deployment of intervention forces. In a historic change, Sarkozy furthermore has declared that France "will now participate
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on a UN peacekeeping mission. These troops were initially sent under the terms of a mutual protection pact between France and the Ivory Coast, but the mission has since evolved into the current UN peacekeeping operation. The French Armed Forces have also played a leading role in the ongoing UN
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In May 2014, high ranking defence chiefs of the French Armed Forces threatened to resign if the defence budget received further cuts on top of those already announced in the 2013 White Paper. They warned that further cuts would leave the armed forces unable to support operations abroad.
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functioned as the Army's reserve national defense and law enforcement militia. After 145 years since its disbandment, due to the risk of terrorist attacks in the country, the Guard was officially reactivated, this time as a service branch of the Armed Forces, on 12 October 2016.
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changes in European politics and power structures, the French military's traditional focus on territorial defence will be redirected to meet the challenges of a global threat environment. Under the reorganisation, the identification and destruction of
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erupted again in the First World War. France and its allies were victorious this time. Social, political, and economic upheaval in the wake of the conflict led to the Second World War, in which the Allies were defeated in the
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which sought the signing of the Founding Act on Mutual Relations, Cooperation and Security. Outside of NATO, France has actively and heavily participated in both coalition and unilateral peacekeeping efforts in
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to an end. Currently, France has 2,000 army personnel deployed along the border, including infantry, armour, artillery and air defence. There are also naval and air personnel deployed offshore.
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in early 2008. Acting upon its recommendations, President Sarkozy began making radical changes in French defense policy and structures starting in the summer of 2008. In keeping with post-
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ordered M. Jean-Claude Mallet, a member of the Council of State, to head up a thirty-five member commission charged with a wide-ranging review of French defence. The commission issued its
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The military history of France encompasses an immense panorama of conflicts and struggles extending for more than 2,000 years across areas, including modern France, greater Europe, and
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of the French Armed Forces consists of two structures; the Operational Reserve and the Citizens Reserve. As of 2022 the strength of the Operational Reserve is 25,785 personnel.
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maintains the ability to command a medium or large-scale international operation, and runs exercises . In 2011, from 19 March, France participated in the enforcement of a
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Reactivated in 2016, the National Guard serves as the official primary military and police reserve service of the Armed Forces. It is placed under the jurisdiction of
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region. About 10,000 soldiers are expected to take part, along with the French navy and possibly forces from Belgium, Britain, and the United States.
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Overseas Gendamerie – provides military police services in the French overseas dependencies and territories, as well as to embassies of France abroad
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by defeating competing tribes. The "land of Francia," from which France gets its name, had high points of expansion under kings
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in 1992 and supported its indefinite extension in 1995. After conducting a controversial final series of six nuclear tests on
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led to America's independence. Internal political upheaval eventually led to 23 years of nearly continuous conflict in the
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The French Joint Force and Training Headquarters (État-Major Interarmées de Force et d'Entraînement) at Air Base 110 near
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Washington's success in keeping the army together deprived the British of victory, but French intervention won the war.
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Provost Gendarmerie – provides military police services to French Armed Forces personnel in deployments outside France
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Apart from the three main service branches, the French Armed Forces also includes a fourth military branch called the
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is primarily a military and airborne capable police force which serves as a rural and general purpose police force.
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The imperative of avoiding a third Franco-German conflict on the scale of those of two world wars paved the way for
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to provide manpower for its military, in addition to a minority of professional career soldiers. Following the
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in 1996. Since then, France has implemented a moratorium on the production, export, and use of anti-personnel
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National Gendarmerie, the total men power of all the French Armed Forces combined is 435,000 strong. A 2015
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oversees the military's funding, procurement and operations. Historically, France relied a great deal on
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Today, French military doctrine is based on the concepts of national independence, nuclear deterrence (
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The Gallo-Roman conflict predominated from 60 BC to 50 BC, with the Romans emerging victorious in the
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made France the most powerful nation on the continent once more. In parallel, France developed its
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on its colonies. As the 18th century advanced, global competition with Great Britain led to the
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Director General of the Military Staff/Director of the Military Planning and Conduct Capability
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withdrew from the alliance's command structure and ordered American troops off French soil.
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lead to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction: the Nuclear Suppliers Group, the
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and was part of France's involvement in the conflict in the NATO-led coalition, enforcing
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in 1960. Since the 1990s its military action is most often seen in cooperation with
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report ranked the French Armed Forces as the world's sixth most powerful military.
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France participates in several recurring exercises with other nations, including:
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Jim Hoagland, "France's Whirlwind of Change", Real Clear Politics, 18 June 2008
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crippled France in the late 16th century, but a major victory over Spain in the
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Command structure on the civilian/military strategic and operational levels (
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and later a liberated French nation, eventually emerged victorious over the
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Resurgent French armies secured victories in dynastic conflicts against the
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strained French relations with its Allies, South Pacific states (namely
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In 2023, Exercise Orion, the largest in decades, is to be held in the
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to help the United States and NATO forces fight the remains of the
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and left the kingdom bankrupt at the opening of the 18th century.
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within the Armed Forces in the service branch of their choice.
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with African support but without NATO involvement and launched
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in foreign territories—such operations are known as "OPEX" for
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and the French government surrendered and was replaced with an
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border as part of the cease-fire agreement that brought the
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Letter of Engagement to M. Jean-Claude Mallet, 31 July 2007
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List of active military aircraft of the French Armed Forces
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List of active military aircraft of the French Armed Forces
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a force of a few thousand French soldiers is stationed in
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O’Sullivan, Michael; Subramanian, Krithika (2015-10-17).
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Director of the Civilian Planning and Conduct Capability
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2013 French White Paper on Defence and National Security
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2008 French White Paper on Defence and National Security
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to combat terror in African Sahal from 2014 to 2022.
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List of countries in Europe by military expenditures
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The End of Globalization or a more Multipolar World?
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Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
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Committee for Civilian Aspects of Crisis Management
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Index


Service branches
French Army
French Navy
French Air and Space Force
National Gendarmerie
Headquarters
Hexagone Balard
Paris
Leadership
Chief of the Armed Forces
President
Emmanuel Macron
Minister of the Armed Forces
SĂ©bastien Lecornu
Chief of the Defence Staff
Général d'armée
Thierry Burkhard
Conscription

Reserve personnel

Budget
Percent of GDP
Industry
Airbus
ArianeGroup
Dassault Aviation
MBDA
Naval Group

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