With overseas territories in the Indo-Pacific and a long presence in former colonies in West Africa, France has a more global security policy than Germany, but in future it wants to make a stronger presence in Europe and NATO. The French armed forces will leave Niger by the end of the year, compared to 1,500 […]
In 2019, Russia unveiled the Avangard hypersonic glide missile and Ukraine is deploying the Kinschal hypersonic cruise missile. China and the US are following suit in research on the projectiles. Whether the hypersonic cruise missiles can already do as promised – change direction several times at more than five times the speed of sound – […]
In the end, it was mainly words that Emmanuel Macron used to underpin France’s security ambitions in the Indo-Pacific. At the final conference with Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape, Macron stressed they did not want to get into “power games,” saying, “Our goal is not to compete with China or the United States.” […]
In the end, Emmanuel Macron used big words to underscore France’s security ambitions in the Indo-Pacific. At the closing conference with Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister James Marape last Friday, Macron stressed that France did not want to get into “power games.” “Our objective is not at all to compete with China or the US.” […]
Emmanuel Macron seemed somewhat defiant when he announced the resolutions of the conference on European air defense that he had organized. Belgium will be part of the German-French-Spanish armament project Future Combat Air System (FCAS) as an observer in the future, France’s President announced last night in Paris. In addition, he and Italian Prime Minister […]