France did not weaken its military by accident — it consciously reduced it. Over the past three decades, the French Army shrank from around 240,000 personnel (including 100,000 conscripts) to roughly 130,000 fully professional troops. The number of regiments fell from 129 to around 80. This was a structural shift: from mass to quality, from territorial defence to expeditionary operations. The scale of cuts in heavy equipment is even more telling. Tanks were reduced from 927 to about 200,

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