Tag: Defense
2024 Olympics: is the security system sufficient?
Two days before the opening ceremony of the Paris Games, the capital is adorned with colors and lights, but also with barriers and fences. A heavy security presence has been…
Malian army arrives in Inafarak, near the Algerian border
In Mali, the army announced that it had taken control of the town of Inafarak on Monday, July 22, on the edge of the Kidal region, barely ten kilometers from…
JO 2024: immersion in the military camp with the legionnaires who secure the Games
Only four days left before the start of the Paris Olympic Games. Among the important issues, for it to be a celebration, there is security. Thus, all the police forces…
France: Visit to the Alpha-jet school which trains Ukrainian pilots to fly Western aircraft
They arrived in France at the beginning of April. The first 11 Ukrainian fighter pilot apprentices have taken up residence at a base in the southwest of France. For security…
“Taiwan should pay for defense”
share-arrowShare unsaveSave expand-left full screen Former US President Donald Trump during the Republican Convention in Milwaukee. Photo: Evan Vucci/AP/TT Taiwan “should pay” the US for defense, thinks Republican presidential candidate…
Western weapons not diverted, report says
A report by a Swiss NGO contradicts the Kremlin’s claim that its allies’ military aid to Ukraine was stolen by criminal groups. The authors of the statement found no evidence…
Poland plans to spend 5 percent of GDP on defense next year | News in brief
Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski told Bloomberg Television on Friday that the country plans to spend five percent of its gross domestic product on defense in 2025. – Including the…
Emmanuel Macron considers an “adjustment” of the army budget in 2025 “necessary”
On the eve of the July 14 parade, French President Emmanuel Macron reiterated his confidence in the military gathered in the gardens of the Hôtel de Brienne. The president also…
At the Saint-Cyr military school, “Togo and France, hand in hand”
This is the story of a friendship between two cadets. One is Togolese, the other French. They met on the benches of the prestigious French military school of Saint-Cyr and…
General Dominique Trinquand: “On July 14, there is a craze among the French population around its soldiers”
Tomorrow is July 14, the national holiday in France, with the traditional military parade as its focal point. A parade in a reduced format, which will take place this year…