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The maintenance of overseas military bases enable the French Armed Forces to conduct expeditionary warfare, and often tend to be located in areas of strategic or diplomatic importance. In the French terminology, the "prepositioned forces" consist of the "sovereignty forces" based in the Overseas France and the "forces of presence" based abroad.
Today, French military doctrine is based on the concepts of national independence, nuclear deterrence (see Force de dissuasion), and military self-sufficiency. France is a charter member of NATO, and has worked actively with its allies to adapt NATO—internally and externally—to the post-Cold War environment. In December 1995, France ...
Opération Sentinelle is a French military operation with 10,000 soldiers and 4,700 police and gendarmes deployed since the aftermath of the January 2015 Île-de-France attacks, with the objective of protecting sensitive "points" of the territory from terrorism.
France is divided into six Defense and Security zones, which provide territorial services to military and civil authorities in their area. Commandement Territorial de Niveau Zonal (COM ZT) - Territorial Zones Command, in Paris Île-de-France Zone, in Saint-Germain-en-Laye
The zone rouge (English: red zone) is a chain of non-contiguous areas throughout northeastern France that the French government isolated after the First World War. The land, which originally covered more than 1,200 square kilometres (460 square miles), was deemed too physically and environmentally damaged by conflict for human habitation.
Military Administration in Belgium and Northern France; Italian occupation of Corsica (1940–1943) Zone occupée (occupied zone), in parts of western and northern France, administered by the Militärverwaltung in Frankreich; Zone libre (free zone), in parts of southern France, where the rump state Vichy France was established until occupied in ...
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