While the noise of Russian tracks is once again being heard at the gates of Europe, voices are being raised to demand a substantial increase in the national defense budget and to strengthen our military capabilities.
The return to history is brutal and the awakening painful because our armies have been subjected to a spectacular policy of reducing their format, announced by Jacques Chirac in 1996 and pursued with constancy by his successors (with the exception of Emmanuel Macron ).
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At the end of this policy combining strategic considerations and budgetary imperatives (defence serving as a fairly convenient adjustment variable), our armies, which some thirty years ago still had a critical mass allowing them to present a body of consequent battle, can today only be assimilated to an expeditionary force capable of projecting at most a few thousand men on an external theatre.
If our country fortunately still has the…
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