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Future Combat Air System: Inside The Franco-German Program
Many feel that the FCAS (Future Combat Air System) is a Mission Impossible when one focuses on how much money — $4 billion by 2025 is to be jointly allocated by France and Germany.
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‘Hurricane Bo-Jo’: EU Readies To Cope With Brexit
The one thing Boris Johnson and his DUDE — Deliver, Unite, Defeat, Energize — partisans have in common with their opponents is that they all want to see a quick end to a process that has paralyzed the...
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US Military Support In Sahel: Allies At Work
The ratio between a very light footprint and a high value-added target is often lost sight of when considering a theater of operation covering some 4 million square meters. The U.S. contingent deployed...
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A New African Counter-Terrorism Strategy: An Opportunity For Biden...
The fight against terror groups often called VEOs (Violent Extremist Organizations) in Africa faces a key strategic turning point. The N’Djamena Summit – which just took place with a US representative...
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France In The Indo-Pacific: A Mediating Power?
France has ramped up activity in the region in accordance with its 2019 Indo-Pacific strategy.
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ASTERX 2021: French Space Forces Reach For Higher ‘Orbit’
The French military is moving apace in keeping with Paris’s determination to, at a minimum, keep its rank as the third international space power in an increasingly large and competitive club of nations.
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French, US Carrier Strike Groups’ Ballet For Persian Gulf Stability
The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group (CSG) and the French Charles de Gaulle CSG are cooperating at levels of integration rarely achieved in the past. Indeed, “it is at the request of US...
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France And EU Launch Strategic Reviews: China As ‘Systemic’ Rival
How to deal with the Chinese threat will probably be one of the most difficult questions for the European Union to address as it executes its first-ever strategic review, to be published in 2022 and...
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US, France, UK Hammer Out Multinational Corps Warfighting
There is room for further development in areas such as electronic warfare and signals intelligence. “These ‘soft’ components were not as accessible in the past 12 to 15 years when we were so busy in...
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Inside The ‘Laboratory Of Premieres’ For French Air Power
Gen. Philippe Lavigne, the Chief of French Air and Space Force, walks Breaking Defense through a recent Pacific exercise.
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France wants to transform its ‘beautiful’ army for high-intensity warfare
As Gen. Eric Laval recently put it, “Today the French Army is beautiful, but in a high intensity conflict, would it be able to hold beyond 48 hours?”
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French Air Force No. 2 pushing for greater Rafale-JSF interoperability
Lt. Gen. Frédéric Parisot, number two in the French Air and Space Force (FASF), talked with Breaking Defense about his priorities for the future.
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Did France retreat from Mali? It’s not that simple, generals say.
On Feb. 17, an almost decade-long French mission in Mali ended, with Russia’s Wagner Group stepping into the void. But France remains dedicated to the CT mission in Africa, officials say.
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What the US Marines can learn from a French Army ‘sister unit’
“We always trained very hard following the motto ‘hard training, easy war,’ but what we are currently doing is retraining ourselves to face an enemy with the same capacities as we have,” French Army...
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French military intelligence office reorganizing post-Ukraine, with ‘360...
French Maj. Gen. Cyril Carcy told Breaking Defense that his intelligence office can “no longer focus on a 60-degree angle between Western Africa and the Middle-East dictated by the fight against...
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