French President Emmanuel Macron has called on Europe to “wake up” and spend more on defense, in a speech to the French ...

In his New Year's address to the armed forces, President Emmanuel Macron called for a revision of France's military strategy, ...

The French president said that while he does not want to reinstate mandatory military service, he wants to see more young ...

The first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s has died ...

Code name? “Perseus. Number of soldiers mobilized? 3200. According to the specialist website Intelligence Online, France has ...

Joan of Arc is one of several patron saints of France, a military leader from the 15th century who led a demoralised French army to several key victories in the Hundred Years War with the English, ...

Panic spread in Goma on Thursday, with M23 rebels steadily inching closer to the city in eastern Congo as they battle the Congolese army. Bombs were heard going off in the ...

In 1910 Charles Mangin published this book, La Force Noire, the black army. It’s basically a manifesto calling for the mass recruitment for Africans into the French army. Mangin didn’t just ...

A few hundred civilians employed by the French army in Senegal, gathered on wednesday to express their concern about the announced departure of the French military base.

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