"Battle in progress"

The traditional parade of July 14 takes place this year in special conditions. Be careful, there will be no public, few troops on foot - mainly schools, few motorized vehicles. The health crisis went through there.

It would be a shame that taking up arms gives the virus an opportunity to resume the offensive.

We know that since the beginning of the epidemic, the President of the Republic willingly uses military vocabulary, declaring: "We are at war" (March 17) and qualifying as "first line" all the doctors and nursing staff involved in the fight against Covid-19. These words are not only rhetorical, because the army has taken its place in general mobilization, alongside the police, customs, gendarmes and firefighters. A field hospital was installed in Alsace, then in Guyana, and evacuations were carried out by air force aircraft. What could be more normal, then, than the health service of armies,

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