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> they’re the only EU country with anything resembling a real army ?????? guess France is out of EU or... ?
by GeoAtreides 2y ago
> they’re the only EU country with anything resembling a real army
??????
guess France is out of EU or... ?
- ssssvd 2y agoFrench land army is 77k total, with maybe 30k actually combat-capable — the rest are admin, logistics, and training. Add 9k Foreign Legion, but only a fraction of that is high-intensity capable. With rotations, France can probably field about 15k troops on an actual frontline — and after that, it’s draft time. For comparison: * Russian armed forces: 1.1 million. * 500k deployed in Ukraine. * ~300k on the active frontline right now. In terms of real land warfare capacity, France is in the same weight class as Belarus or Romania — and about 20 times behind Russia. Even if you argue technical edge (better equipment per soldier), France has zero industrial mobilization capacity and no modern large-scale combat experience.