Algeria wants to assert itself on the regional chessboard

In Algiers

Will military intervention in a third country soon no longer be a red line for Algerian foreign policy? This is what the preliminary draft revision of the Constitution, released on May 7, might suggest. According to the text, " the President of the Republic could send army units abroad after a majority vote in Parliament by two-thirds of its members ".

But Akram Kharief, specialist in military matters and host of the Menadefense blog, puts things into perspective. “ The Algerian army is already operating abroad. She participated in the Six-Day War in 1967, in the Yom Kippur War in 1973, in what was called “the war of attrition” between 1969 and 1970. She also sent MiG-21s to Libya in 1973 against the American incursions or even patrollers in Mauritania in 1976 against the Spaniards , he recalls. The novelty of the text is that the sending of troops abroad, which was previously done by the prince, in the sole jurisdiction of the

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