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With French soldiers who train for urban warfare

2020-02-26T19:00:07.267Z


INVESTIGATION - From Grozny to Mosul, modern wars are now taking place in the heart of cities. In Sissone, in the Aisne, the French army’s urban action training center is preparing for future conflicts by reproducing this urban environment in great detail.


Special envoy to Sissonne

In his jeep, Lieutenant Guillaume remembers: "I ended up under a pile of rubble ... I almost went through it." Today, he is an instructor at the Urban Action Training Center (Cenzub) in Sissonne, in Aisne. But that day, on a mission in Afghanistan, he was under fire from the Taliban. "The enemy had settled in a" no fire area "to shoot us , " he continues, without remembering whether it was a mosque or a public building that French military doctrine and intimate western not to aim. Unless otherwise ordered. It had taken three confirmations of taking part, a hierarchical validation, and long minutes before the response was authorized. In the meantime, the soldier had been attacked. A few years later, he recounts the experience with a defiant smile. And he passes on his field experience to the soldiers who train in urban combat.

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Source: lefigaro

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