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Monday, July 18, 2011

How Europe lost its military might

Robert GatesFrom the stern-faced Foreign Legionnaires to the gleaming sabers of the cavalry guards and the Mirage fighters roaring overhead, the French military put on an impressive display as they marched down the Champs-Elysee this July 14.

Behind the annual Bastille Day pomp however, France is at full stretch keeping over 12,000 troops deployed on an array of international missions from wars in Libya and Afghanistan to keeping peace in former African colonies like Chad and Ivory Coast.

“The armed forces now are fragile and vulnerable,” Admiral Edouard Guillaud, France's chief of defense staff admitted in a recent speech. “We cannot deny it or look the other way. It's a fact that we are in a difficult situation.”

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