Defense Transformation à la française and U.S. Interests

Authors

Leo G. Michel, Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University

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Description

French President Nicolas Sarkozy pledged that France “will remain a great military power” when he unveiled the White Book on Defense and National Security and endorsed its wide-ranging reforms.² The next day, a group of anonymous general officers condemned it as an “amateurish” and “incoherent” exercise that “cannot mask the downgrading of our military in a more dangerous world,” and former conservative Prime Minister Alain Juppé criticized Sarkozy’s intention to enhance France’s role in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) as a “fool’s bargain.”³

Document Type

Policy Brief

Publication Date

9-2008

Publication

Strategic Forum

Publisher

National Defense University Press

City

Washington, DC

Recommended Citation

Michel, Leo G., "Defense Transformation à la française and U.S. Interests" (2008). Strategic Forums. 33.
https://digitalcommons.ndu.edu/strategic-forums/33