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Practical Guide to Current French Decorations – 2015 Edition
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Guide to Current French Decorations, 5th Edition Since 1988, the authors have been cataloguing French decorations. Their attribution, which varies over time across successive editions, reflects the evolution of society. This fifth edition provides precise and fully up-to-date information intended for everyone, whether in military or civilian service. The...
Citizen Soldiers in the 21st Century – An Operational Reserve for a Professional Army
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Since the 1990s, the armed forces have undergone profound transformation. The evolution of the global strategic context has necessitated a revision of force employment doctrines and a restructuring of their size. The mass army of a people in arms has given way to a professionalised army of reduced format, dependent on an ever more constrained budgetary...
Law and War from Yesterday to Today
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Starting from the premise that war does not permit all forms of violence, the law of armed conflict seeks to mitigate its harshness. This body of law is accordingly based on a complex balance between military necessity and humanitarian imperatives.Upholding this balance is the dilemma with which the combatant, and above all the military commander, will be...
The Modern Fighter's Handbook
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The Modern Combatant's Guide

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In the wake of recent painful events, the French people seem to be discovering that their soldiers fight wars.Yet since the end of the Algerian War (1964), France has been present on numerous external theatres of operations (Chad, Mauritania, Lebanon, the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman… Côte d'Ivoire and Afghanistan). This guide is therefore addressed...
Code of Military Disability Pensions and War Victims
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Our society is evolving rapidly, shaped by new technologies and new socio-economic realities; war and terrorism are changing in nature, yet the area of law dealing with their consequences is lagging behind, making the application of these texts increasingly difficult.This annotated edition of the code of military disability pensions has been designed to...
Practical Guide to Military Correspondence
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Practical guide to military correspondence, communication and public relations. A guide designed for everyday use covering military and private correspondence, protocol, etiquette and the duty of remembrance.
Recruitment Posters of the Colonial Troops, 1900–1961
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This work refers in a very factual manner to a now-controversial period in recent French history, namely that of colonisation. A catalogue of recruitment posters published elsewhere on many occasions and brought together here, it aims above all to serve as a witness to an era when the poster was one of the few mass communication tools capable of arousing,...
Jeannou Lacaze and the 2nd REP – 1955–1970 – Calvi mon ami Jeannou Lacaze and the 2nd REP – 1955–1970 – Calvi mon ami 2
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Against the backdrop of Algeria, Calvi and Chad, this book tells the story of an officer and the regiment he commanded from July 1967 to July 1970. That officer, General Jeannou Lacaze, and that regiment, the 2e REP, left a lasting mark on the history of the French Army in the second half of the 20th century. It is also the history of armed conflicts and...
History of Military Logistics – Heritage and Operational Perspectives History of Military Logistics – Heritage and Operational Perspectives 2
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Logistics is an indispensable part of military operations. Many commanders have underscored its vital character, without which no armed action is possible. "Nothing compensates for deficiency in supply," declared General Rommel. "If logistics says no, then logistics is right — the operational plan must be changed, it is a bad one," retorted General...
Saint-Cyr graduates killed in the field of honor during the Imperial War of 1870 Saint-Cyr graduates killed in the field of honor during the Imperial War of 1870 2
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On 19 July 1870, Napoleon III took the gravest decision of his reign by declaring war on Prussia. From a mere controversy over the succession to the Spanish throne arose a spiral as unexpected as it was catastrophic. In early August, the first French soldiers and officers died on the battlefield. The fortunes of war turned against them immediately, and...
VRBANJA, The Mandate of the Breach (Sarajevo May–September 1995)
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This book describes the conditions under which Infantry Battalion No. 4 (BATINF 4) of the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) in the former Yugoslavia, deployed at the heart of the besieged city of Sarajevo from May to September 1995, fulfilled a mission described by some as impossible. Written by the man who commanded them, this account pays...
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