Following a training exercise for French and allied soldiers on a scale not seen for decades, the country’s top general insists that “coherence…must precede mass.” But to what extent does it have the means to achieve its objectives?
that the French army had to “harden” itself and prepare for “high-intensity war”, possibly on the European continent. One hypothetical adversary was Russia. Today, the former head of the army is France’s top soldier, in charge of all its armed forces. His analysis turned out to be prescient. It also formed the basis of a training exercise for French and allied soldiers on a scale not seen for decades, which finished last month.
In his office in Paris, where a print featuring Valery Zaluzhny, Ukraine’s most senior general, hangs opposite a portrait of Emmanuel Macron, France’s president, General Burkhard reflects on the lessons emerging from the exercise and from the war in Ukraine. “A high-intensity war is fought on a completely different scale,” he says. “I probably underestimated that.
If lethality depends increasingly on technology, yet modern war is also waged on a grand scale, with massive consumption of ammunition and high rates of attrition, then how do medium-sized armies balance between quality and quantity? The priority, says General Burkhard, is integrating platforms together: “We have to be able to have five drones in the air linked to an artillery battery, three missile-launchers, a tank and in fact have enough agility to decide what we want to do with what we see.
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