Nearly 100,000 French soldiers have served in turn in the Sahel since 2013. Their remarkable military successes have been hard won, always by their sweat, sometimes by their blood.
These efforts and these sacrifices deserve more consideration than a ritual sentence at the start of each audiovisual debate on the outcome of Operation “Barkhane”, underlines the officer *.
The end of 2020 has reminded public opinion of the harshness of the war that French soldiers have been pursuing in the Sahel for eight years.
The legitimate emotion facing our five soldiers fallen so far, disbelief in front of the political and security objectives of this engagement and the game of political opposition must not lead to the shortcut that a rapid withdrawal of French troops is necessary under the pretext that military action would have failed.
Because the field invalidates this analysis.
Too little known in their overall consistency, the results of “Serval” (2013-2014) and then of “Barkhane” (2014 to today) are very convincing.
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