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The foreign alliances of France have a long and complex history spanning more than a millennium. One traditional characteristic of the French diplomacy of alliances has been the "Alliance de revers" (i.e. "Rear alliance"), aiming at allying with countries situated on the opposite side or "in the back" of an adversary, in order to open a second front encircling the adversary and thus re ...
France has maintained its status as key power in Western Europe because of its size, location, strong economy, membership in European organizations, strong military posture and energetic diplomacy. France generally has worked to strengthen the global economic and political influence of the EU and its role in common European defense and ...
BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany, Poland, Britain, France and Italy will implement as swiftly as possible new NATO targets for weapons and troop numbers which the alliance is about to agree upon, German ...
The various allies all signed the Ottawa Agreement, [5] which is a 1951 document that acts to embody civilian oversight of the Alliance. [5] [6] Current membership consists of 32 countries. In addition to the 12 founding countries, four new members joined during the Cold War: Greece and Turkey (1952), West Germany (1955) and Spain (1982).
LONDON/BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Many of France's allies breathed a sigh of relief on Monday after Marine Le Pen's far-right party failed to win a snap election, but they noted that a messy coalition ...
US allies in Europe are increasingly looking to replace older aircraft with F-35s, but only a few are also acquiring AGM-88 missiles. (These missiles are highly capable for SEAD missions and were ...
France's allies are adapting well to the French strike force which has become a concrete reality and note that the military cooperation established in principle by the Ailleret-Lemnitzer agreement is being put in place on an operational level to the satisfaction of all parties and is even the subject of a certain publicity by senior French ...
France, The Dark Years, 1940-1944 (2001), a major scholarly survey. Keiger, John F.V. France and the origins of the First World War (1983), a major scholarly survey. Lambi, Ivo Nikolai. The navy and German power politics, 1862-1914 (Routledge, 2019). Langer, William. An Encyclopedia of World History (5th ed. 1973); highly detailed outline of ...