What does France need to guide Europe’s security efforts?
When the EU faces increasing security challenges, France has a military ability to guide a joint security effort.
French President Emmanuel Macron put France at the center of European Reforms Following the approximate signs between the United States and Russia.
The EU has reduced its military security from Europe and Russia and represents the growing threat to the continent, and the European Union (European Union) is pressing to increase the costs and to collect resources in joint security programs among its members.
However, despite the Macron ambitious, the French army – there are doubts about whether it is the seventh strongest and the best of the European Union, according to the annual classification Until the worldwide fire– What is needed to guide this effort.
Power on paper, actually lack
Since the election in 2017, Macron has significantly increased the cost of France with the defense of Macron.
The country’s 2019-2025 Military Programming Act (LPM) attributed 295 billion euros to security. The last LPM 2024-2030 increased this value to 413 billion euros – a 40%increase.
Despite these investments, France is still trying to restore the delay.
Senator Cedric Berrin, a member of the Republican Party and Chairman of the Senate Defense Commission, said in 2022, but in 2022, “there was no funds to face new challenges”, such as Ukraine’s total invasion. “
According to the global fireplace, the country’s military force has about 200,000 active soldiers and 44,000 reservation.
The French army has 225 Leclerg war tanks and 79 Caesar artillery. Its navy operates a nuclear-resistant aircraft carrier, four nuclear ballistic missile submarines and 15 warships, while the Air Force commands 197 war jet.
The country maintains about 290 nuclear warships as part of its prevention strategy.
But there are many concerns. For example, ammunition reserves are very low.
In 2024, France’s goal is to produce 155 mm 100 000 yields per year, which is a standard native artillery caliber, which is used in many field weapons and opus.
This is a major improvement compared to 6000 annually between 2012 and 2017, but the Ukrainian military has to go a long distance as a 7000 OPS firing per day.
Report from 2023 French parliamentary paisa chamber He revealed that the rules are always at very low level and that the long conflict will not last for more than a few weeks.
Conflict of arms export
France has an industrial complex of strong security and is the world’s second largest weapon exporter Last analysis International Research Institute for Stockholm Peace.
AdvertisementBut it is important to distinguish French arms sales and military military capabilities, said Emmanuel Dupui, head of the European perspective and security research company (IPSE).
Dupui argued that there were flaws in the France’s military distribution chain.
“We are selling the first European weapons exporter, Rafael militants and Caesar cannon, but we have no ammunition because we don’t have the ability to create them in France,” he told EuroNus.
Berrin said that even though France produces a lot of good quality equipment, the country does not mean that the country is buying a lot of this equipment.
AdvertisementIf we do not want to stir fuel with the ingredients that we need for our own safety, we must be on the basis of the principle that export power cannot be, ”Dupui agreed.
The French military-industrial complex also depends on international suppliers for important goods. For example, Dupui says French ammunition manufacturers import a gun from Australia.
Last week, French Minister of the Armed Forces Sebastian Lecone and Finance Minister Eric Lombard opened the new Urenco shooting line, firing and explosive company.
The factory will produce about 1,200 tonnes Particles Firing per year, which is used in about 100,000 artillery, which is intended Caesar cannons used in UkraineIn other countries.
AdvertisementWhat is missing from the French army?
In spite of its military resources, he warns experts that France is delayed in various important areas.
“We have to invest in the project capabilities of the forces – heavy transport planes to send more troops and armored vehicles abroad.”
Another emergency gap also involves the growth of drones, which changed the method of being locked, especially in Ukraine.
A portion of the particular concern.
AdvertisementIn an era of cyber war and electronic surveillance, Tubui says France must strengthen the ability to detect threats and respond in real time.
France and its EU alliances must be free from the biases of the US patriotic missile organizations.
“We should not continue to depend on patriotic air security organizations, but we must develop our own European equivalents,” he explained.
Lack of cooperation with the EU
The French military theory is traditionally focused on travel war, but not in large -scale direct conflicts.
AdvertisementFerrin stressed that the French forces were created to “interfere”, but their “fragmented” nature is low.
He emphasized that France, like other European countries, can only enter a major confrontation with “alliance with the allies of NATO and the EU.”
However, European cooperation continues to work in the armed industry.
Dupui said the continent should improve the operating system related to acquisition.
Advertisement“We need fewer equipment in the European Armed Forces – maybe a common European aircraft instead of national projects,” he said.
Berrin, however, said he was cautious about France’s new military initiative.
“We are going in the right direction. The question now is to find the budget to make orders,” he said.
Last week, the Finance Ministry announced that the French government wanted to get 5 billion from public and private funds in addition to the Defense Department.
AdvertisementHowever, the pressure on the French public funds controls the options for increasing security costs. Macron aims to increase the 2% military budget in the country’s GDP from 3 to 3.5% in the coming years.
