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href="#Recent_history_(1996–present)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.6</span> <span>Recent history (1996–present)</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Recent_history_(1996–present)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Organisation" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Organisation"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2</span> <span>Organisation</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Organisation-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Organisation subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Organisation-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Arms_of_the_French_Army" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Arms_of_the_French_Army"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.1</span> <span>Arms of the French Army</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Arms_of_the_French_Army-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Administrative_services" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Administrative_services"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.2</span> <span>Administrative services</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Administrative_services-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Military_regions" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Military_regions"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.3</span> <span>Military regions</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Military_regions-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Personnel" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Personnel"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3</span> <span>Personnel</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Personnel-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Personnel subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Personnel-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Strength" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Strength"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.1</span> <span>Strength</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Strength-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Contracts" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Contracts"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.2</span> <span>Contracts</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Contracts-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Women" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Women"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.3</span> <span>Women</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Women-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Code" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Code"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.4</span> <span>Code</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Code-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Ranks" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Ranks"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.5</span> <span>Ranks</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Ranks-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Commissioned_officer_ranks" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Commissioned_officer_ranks"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.5.1</span> <span>Commissioned officer ranks</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Commissioned_officer_ranks-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Other_ranks" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Other_ranks"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.5.2</span> <span>Other ranks</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Other_ranks-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Equipment" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Equipment"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>Equipment</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Equipment-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Uniforms" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Uniforms"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Uniforms</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Uniforms-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-References-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle References subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Notes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.1</span> <span>Notes</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Notes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Citations" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Citations"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.2</span> <span>Citations</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Citations-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Bibliography" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Bibliography"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>Bibliography</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Bibliography-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Further_reading" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Further_reading"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> <span>Further reading</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Further_reading-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10</span> <span>External links</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-titlebar-toc vector-button-flush-left" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Toggle the table of contents" > <label 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class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AB%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%BF_%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%80" title="ফরাসি সেনাবাহিনী – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="ফরাসি সেনাবাহিনী" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tirlu_gall" title="Tirlu gall – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Tirlu gall" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arm%C3%A9e_de_terre" title="Armée de terre – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Armée de terre" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz%C3%B6sisches_Heer_(bis_2015)" title="Französisches Heer (bis 2015) – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Französisches Heer (bis 2015)" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A3%CF%84%CF%81%CE%B1%CF%84%CF%8C%CF%82_%CE%9E%CE%B7%CF%81%CE%AC%CF%82_(%CE%93%CE%B1%CE%BB%CE%BB%CE%AF%CE%B1)" title="Στρατός Ξηράς (Γαλλία) – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Στρατός Ξηράς (Γαλλία)" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ej%C3%A9rcito_de_Tierra_franc%C3%A9s" title="Ejército de Tierra francés – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Ejército de Tierra francés" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franca_Terarmeo" title="Franca Terarmeo – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Franca Terarmeo" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frantziako_Lurreko_Armada" title="Frantziako Lurreko Armada – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Frantziako Lurreko Armada" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%B1%D9%88%DB%8C_%D8%B2%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%86%DB%8C_%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%87" title="نیروی زمینی فرانسه – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="نیروی زمینی فرانسه" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arm%C3%A9e_de_terre_(France)" title="Armée de terre (France) – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Armée de terre (France)" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%94%84%EB%9E%91%EC%8A%A4_%EC%9C%A1%EA%B5%B0" title="프랑스 육군 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="프랑스 육군" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angkatan_Darat_Prancis" title="Angkatan Darat Prancis – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Angkatan Darat Prancis" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arm%C3%A9e_de_terre" title="Armée de terre – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Armée de terre" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A6%D7%91%D7%90_%D7%A6%D7%A8%D7%A4%D7%AA" title="צבא צרפת – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="צבא צרפת" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jv mw-list-item"><a href="https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arm%C3%A9e_de_Terre" title="Armée de Terre – Javanese" lang="jv" hreflang="jv" data-title="Armée de Terre" data-language-autonym="Jawa" data-language-local-name="Javanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Jawa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tentera_Darat_Perancis" title="Tentera Darat Perancis – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Tentera Darat Perancis" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B9%E9%99%B8%E8%BB%8D" title="フランス陸軍 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="フランス陸軍" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arm%C3%A9e_de_terre" title="Armée de terre – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Armée de terre" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%B3%DB%8C_%D8%A8%D8%B1%DB%8C_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%AC" title="فرانسیسی بری فوج – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="فرانسیسی بری فوج" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پنجابی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arm%C3%A9e_de_terre" title="Armée de terre – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Armée de terre" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex%C3%A9rcito_de_Terra_Franc%C3%AAs" title="Exército de Terra Francês – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Exército de Terra Francês" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%83%D1%85%D0%BE%D0%BF%D1%83%D1%82%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B5_%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%B8" title="Сухопутные войска Франции – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Сухопутные войска Франции" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Army" title="French Army – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="French Army" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ckb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%BE%DB%8E%D8%B2%DB%8C_%D8%B2%DB%95%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%86%DB%8C%DB%8C_%D9%81%DB%95%DA%95%DB%95%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%A7" 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.mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox" style="width:25.5em;border-spacing:2px;"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">Land Army</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader" style="background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;"><span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr">Armée de terre</i></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image" style="text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid #aaa;line-height:1.5em;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Logo_of_the_French_Army_(Armee_de_Terre).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Logo_of_the_French_Army_%28Armee_de_Terre%29.svg/225px-Logo_of_the_French_Army_%28Armee_de_Terre%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="225" height="176" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Logo_of_the_French_Army_%28Armee_de_Terre%29.svg/338px-Logo_of_the_French_Army_%28Armee_de_Terre%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Logo_of_the_French_Army_%28Armee_de_Terre%29.svg/450px-Logo_of_the_French_Army_%28Armee_de_Terre%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="871" data-file-height="680" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data">26 May 1445<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">1445-05-26</span>)</span><br />(579 years, 5 months ago)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Country</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/23px-Flag_of_France.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/35px-Flag_of_France.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/45px-Flag_of_France.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Branch</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Army" title="Army">Army</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Role</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Land_warfare" title="Land warfare">Land warfare</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Size</th><td class="infobox-data">118,600 active personnel<br /> 23,000 reserve personnel<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated1_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Part of</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/French_Armed_Forces" title="French Armed Forces">French Armed Forces</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Motto(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><i>Honneur et Patrie</i><br />"Honour and Fatherland"</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Colours on logo:</th><td class="infobox-data">Blue, white, and red</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Engagements</th><td class="infobox-data"><div class="collapsible-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="text-align: left;"> <div style="line-height: 1.6em; font-weight: bold;"><div><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886047488">.mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}</style><span class="nobold"><a href="/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_France" title="List of wars involving France">List of conflicts</a></span></div></div> <ul class="mw-collapsible-content" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin-left: 0;"><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hundred_Years%27_War" title="Hundred Years' War">Hundred Years' War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/French_colonial_empire" title="French colonial empire">Colonial Wars</a> (1534–1980)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Italian_Wars" title="Italian Wars">Italian Wars</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thirty_Years%27_War" title="Thirty Years' War">Thirty Years' War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/War_of_the_League_of_Augsburg" class="mw-redirect" title="War of the League of Augsburg">War of the League of Augsburg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/War_of_the_Spanish_Succession" title="War of the Spanish Succession">War of the Spanish Succession</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/War_of_the_Polish_Succession" title="War of the Polish Succession">War of the Polish Succession</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/War_of_the_Austrian_Succession" title="War of the Austrian Succession">War of the Austrian Succession</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seven_Years%27_War" title="Seven Years' War">Seven Years' War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/French_Revolutionary_Wars" title="French Revolutionary Wars">French Revolutionary Wars</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Napoleonic_Wars" title="Napoleonic Wars">Napoleonic Wars</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hundred_Thousand_Sons_of_Saint_Louis" title="Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis">French intervention in Spain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greek_War_of_Independence" title="Greek War of Independence">Greek War of Independence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/French_conquest_of_Algeria" title="French conquest of Algeria">Conquest of Algeria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Belgian_Revolution" title="Belgian Revolution">Belgian Revolution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Franco-Moroccan_War" title="Franco-Moroccan War">Franco-Moroccan War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cochinchina_Campaign" class="mw-redirect" title="Cochinchina Campaign">Cochinchina Campaign</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crimean_War" title="Crimean War">Crimean War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Italian_War_of_Independence" title="Second Italian War of Independence">Franco-Austrian War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Franco-Prussian_War" title="Franco-Prussian War">Franco-Prussian War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paris_Commune" title="Paris Commune">Paris Commune</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/French_conquest_of_Tunisia" title="French conquest of Tunisia">French conquest of Tunisia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mandingo_Wars" title="Mandingo Wars">Mandingo Wars</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_Franco-Dahomean_War" title="First Franco-Dahomean War">First Franco-Dahomean War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Franco-Dahomean_War" title="Second Franco-Dahomean War">Second Franco-Dahomean War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ouaddai_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Ouaddai War">Ouaddai War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="First World War">First World War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Franco-Turkish_War" title="Franco-Turkish War">Franco-Turkish War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Army_of_the_Levant" title="Army of the Levant">Levant Campaign</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rif_War" title="Rif War">Rif War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Second World War">Second World War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_Indochina_War" title="First Indochina War">Indochina War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malagasy_Uprising" title="Malagasy Uprising">Malagasy Uprising</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suez_Crisis" title="Suez Crisis">Suez Crisis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Algerian_War" title="Algerian War">Algerian War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lebanese_Civil_War" title="Lebanese Civil War">Lebanese Civil War</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Interim_Force_in_Lebanon" title="United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon">United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon</a> (1978–present)<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gulf_War" title="Gulf War">Gulf War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kosovo_War" title="Kosovo War">Kosovo War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1999_East_Timorese_crisis" title="1999 East Timorese crisis">1999 East Timorese crisis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Enduring_Freedom" title="Operation Enduring Freedom">Operation Enduring Freedom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%932021)" title="War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)">War in Afghanistan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northern_Mali_Conflict" class="mw-redirect" title="Northern Mali Conflict">Northern Mali Conflict</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Ivorian_Civil_War" title="Second Ivorian Civil War">Second Ivorian Civil War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_African_Republic_conflict_under_the_Djotodia_administration" class="mw-redirect" title="Central African Republic conflict under the Djotodia administration">Central African Republic conflict</a></li></ul> </li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.defense.gouv.fr/terre">https://www.defense.gouv.fr/terre</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">Commanders</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;"><a href="/wiki/Chief_of_the_Armed_Forces_(France)" class="mw-redirect" title="Chief of the Armed Forces (France)">Chief of the Armed Forces</a></th><td class="infobox-data">President <a href="/wiki/Emmanuel_Macron" title="Emmanuel Macron">Emmanuel Macron</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;"><a href="/wiki/Chief_of_the_Defence_Staff_(France)" title="Chief of the Defence Staff (France)">Chief of the Defence Staff</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Army_General" class="mw-redirect" title="Army General">Army General</a> <a href="/wiki/Thierry_Burkhard" title="Thierry Burkhard">Thierry Burkhard</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;"><a href="/wiki/Chief_of_Staff_of_the_French_Army" title="Chief of Staff of the French Army">Chief of the Army Staff</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Army General <a href="/w/index.php?title=Pierre_Schill&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pierre Schill (page does not exist)">Pierre Schill</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Major General of the French Army</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Army_corps_general" title="Army corps general">Army Corps General</a> Hervé Gomart</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Military unit</div> <p>The <b>French Army</b>, officially known as the <b>Land Army</b> (<a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a>: <i lang="fr">Armée de terre</i>, <abbr style="font-size:85%" title="literal translation">lit.</abbr><span style="white-space: nowrap;"> </span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span><span class="gloss-text">Army of Land</span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span>), is the principal <a href="/wiki/Army" title="Army">land warfare force</a> of <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a>, and the largest component of the <a href="/wiki/French_Armed_Forces" title="French Armed Forces">French Armed Forces</a>; it is responsible to the <a href="/wiki/Government_of_France" title="Government of France">Government of France</a>, alongside the <a href="/wiki/French_Navy" title="French Navy">French Navy</a>, <a href="/wiki/French_Air_and_Space_Force" title="French Air and Space Force">French Air and Space Force</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/National_Gendarmerie" title="National Gendarmerie">National Gendarmerie</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Army is commanded by the <a href="/wiki/Chief_of_Staff_of_the_French_Army" title="Chief of Staff of the French Army">Chief of Staff of the French Army</a> (CEMAT), who is subordinate of the <a href="/wiki/Chief_of_the_Defence_Staff_(France)" title="Chief of the Defence Staff (France)">Chief of the Defence Staff</a> (CEMA), who commands active service Army units and in turn is responsible to the <a href="/wiki/President_of_France" title="President of France">President of France</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> CEMAT is also directly responsible to the <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Armed_Forces_(France)" title="Ministry of Armed Forces (France)">Ministry of the Armed Forces</a> for administration, preparation, and equipment. </p><p>The French Army, following the <a href="/wiki/French_Revolution" title="French Revolution">French Revolution</a>, has generally been composed of a mixed force of <a href="/wiki/Conscripts" class="mw-redirect" title="Conscripts">conscripts</a> and professional volunteers. It is now considered a professional force, since the <a href="/wiki/French_Parliament" title="French Parliament">French Parliament</a> suspended the <a href="/wiki/Conscription_in_France" title="Conscription in France">conscription</a> of soldiers. </p><p>According to British historian <a href="/wiki/Niall_Ferguson" title="Niall Ferguson">Niall Ferguson</a>, out of all recorded conflicts which occurred since the year 387 BC, France has fought in 168 of them, won 109, lost 49 and drawn 10; this makes France the most successful military power in European history in terms of number of fought and won.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFerguson200125–27_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFerguson200125–27-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Anachronism" title="Anachronism"><span title="France didn't exist before the Middle Ages, so this includes conflicts that were fought before France existed. (January 2023)">anachronism</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=French_Army&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Military_history_of_France" title="Military history of France">Military history of France</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/History_of_French_foreign_relations" title="History of French foreign relations">History of French foreign relations</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_history">Early history</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=French_Army&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Early history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/French_Royal_Army" title="French Royal Army">French Royal Army</a></div><p>The first permanent army of <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a>, which was paid with regular wages instead of being supplied by <a href="/wiki/Feudal_levies" class="mw-redirect" title="Feudal levies">feudal levies</a>, was established in the early 15th century under <a href="/wiki/Charles_VII_of_France" title="Charles VII of France">Charles VII</a>. It was formed due to the need for reliable troops during the <a href="/wiki/Hundred_Years%27_War" title="Hundred Years' War">Hundred Years' War</a>, though the Army was not disbanded because it saw continued use by the <a href="/wiki/Kings_of_France" class="mw-redirect" title="Kings of France">Kings of France</a> following the conflict. Upon the outbreak of a conflict, an <a href="/wiki/Ordonnance" title="Ordonnance">ordonnance</a> would be issued to govern the length of service, composition and payment of units. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Compagnies_d%27ordonnance" class="mw-redirect" title="Compagnies d'ordonnance">Compagnies d'ordonnance</a> formed the core of the <a href="/wiki/Gendarme_(historical)" title="Gendarme (historical)">Gendarme</a> well into the 16th century, and were stationed throughout France and summoned into larger armies as needed. There was also provisions made for <a href="/wiki/Francs-archers" class="mw-redirect" title="Francs-archers">francs-archers</a>, which was a militia of bowmen and foot soldiers raised from the non-noble classes, but the units were disbanded once war ended.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDupuy1993_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDupuy1993-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Meanwhile, the bulk of infantry was still provided by urban or provincial militias, which were raised from an area or city to fight locally and that were named for their recruiting grounds. Gradually, the units became more permanent, and in the late 15th century, Swiss instructors were recruited, and some of the 'Bandes' (Militia) were combined to form temporary 'Legions' of up to 9000 men. The men would be paid, contracted to fight and receive military training. </p> <p><a href="/wiki/Henry_II_of_France" title="Henry II of France">Henry II</a> further regularised the French Army by forming standing infantry regiments to replace the Militia structure. The first of them (Régiments de Picardie, Piémont, Navarre and Champagne) were called <i>Les Vieux Corps</i> (The Old Corps). It was normal policy to disband regiments after a war was over as a cost-saving measure with the <i>Vieux Corps</i> and the <a href="/wiki/French_Royal_Guard" class="mw-redirect" title="French Royal Guard">French Royal Guard</a> being the only survivors.</p><figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Villars_a_Denain1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Villars_a_Denain1.jpg/220px-Villars_a_Denain1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="194" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Villars_a_Denain1.jpg/330px-Villars_a_Denain1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Villars_a_Denain1.jpg/440px-Villars_a_Denain1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2545" data-file-height="2240" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/French_Royal_Army_(1652%E2%80%931830)" class="mw-redirect" title="French Royal Army (1652–1830)">French Royal Army</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Denain" title="Battle of Denain">Battle of Denain</a> (1712)</figcaption></figure><p>Regiments could be raised directly by the King and so be called after the region in which they were raised or by the nobility and so called after the noble or his appointed colonel. When <a href="/wiki/Louis_XIII" title="Louis XIII">Louis XIII</a> came to the throne, he disbanded most of the regiments in existence, leaving only the <i>Vieux</i> and a handful of others, which became known as the <i>Petite Vieux</i> and also gained the privilege of not being disbanded after a war. </p><figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Battle-of-Fontenoy.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Battle-of-Fontenoy.jpg/220px-Battle-of-Fontenoy.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="142" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Battle-of-Fontenoy.jpg/330px-Battle-of-Fontenoy.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Battle-of-Fontenoy.jpg/440px-Battle-of-Fontenoy.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="829" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Gardes_fran%C3%A7aises" class="mw-redirect" title="Gardes françaises">Gardes françaises</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Fontenoy" title="Battle of Fontenoy">Battle of Fontenoy</a> (1745)</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1684, there was a major reorganisation of the French infantry and another in 1701 to fit in with <a href="/wiki/Louis_XIV" title="Louis XIV">Louis XIV</a>'s plans and the <a href="/wiki/War_of_the_Spanish_Succession" title="War of the Spanish Succession">War of the Spanish Succession</a>. The reshuffle created many of the modern regiments of the French Army and standardised their equipment and tactics. The army of the Sun King tended to wear grey-white coats with <a href="/wiki/Facing_colour" title="Facing colour">coloured linings</a>. There were exceptions and the foreign troops, recruited from outside France, wore red (Swiss, Irish etc.) or blue (Germans, Scots etc.) while the <a href="/wiki/Gardes_fran%C3%A7aises" class="mw-redirect" title="Gardes françaises">French Guards</a> wore blue. In addition to the regiments of the line the <i>Maison du Roi</i> provided several elite units, the <a href="/wiki/Swiss_Guard#In_France" title="Swiss Guard">Swiss Guards</a>, French Guards and the Regiments of <a href="/wiki/Musketeers_of_the_Guard" title="Musketeers of the Guard">Musketeers</a> being the most famous. The white/grey coated French Infantry of the line <i>Les Blancs</i> with their Charleville muskets were a feared foe on the battlefields of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, fighting in the <a href="/wiki/Nine_Years%27_War" title="Nine Years' War">Nine Years' War</a>, the Wars of Spanish and <a href="/wiki/Austrian_Succession" class="mw-redirect" title="Austrian Succession">Austrian Succession</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Seven_Years%27_War" title="Seven Years' War">Seven Years' War</a> and the <a href="/wiki/American_Revolution" title="American Revolution">American Revolution</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEde_la_Gorce1963_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEde_la_Gorce1963-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Wars_of_the_Coalition">Wars of the Coalition</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=French_Army&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Wars of the Coalition"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Wars_of_the_Coalition" class="mw-redirect" title="Wars of the Coalition">Wars of the Coalition</a></div><figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bataille_Jemmapes.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Bataille_Jemmapes.jpg/220px-Bataille_Jemmapes.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="157" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Bataille_Jemmapes.jpg/330px-Bataille_Jemmapes.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Bataille_Jemmapes.jpg/440px-Bataille_Jemmapes.jpg 2x" data-file-width="736" data-file-height="524" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/French_Revolutionary_Army" title="French Revolutionary Army">French Revolutionary Army</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Jemappes" title="Battle of Jemappes">Battle of Jemappes</a> (1792)</figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/French_Revolution" title="French Revolution">French Revolution</a> caused the Army to lose most of its officers to <a href="/wiki/French_Emigres" class="mw-redirect" title="French Emigres">aristocratic flight</a> or the <a href="/wiki/Guillotine" title="Guillotine">guillotine</a>, and thus it became demoralised and ineffective. The revolutionary militias of <a href="/wiki/Sans-culottes" title="Sans-culottes">Sans-culottes</a>, and the bourgeoise <a href="/wiki/National_Guard_(France)" title="National Guard (France)">National Guard</a> formed the nucleus of the <a href="/wiki/French_Revolutionary_Army" title="French Revolutionary Army">French Revolutionary Army</a> alongside the remnants of the dissolved <a href="/wiki/Royal_French_Army" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal French Army">Royal French Army</a>; it was created following the <a href="/wiki/August_10_(French_Revolution)" class="mw-redirect" title="August 10 (French Revolution)">storming of the Tuileries palace</a>, where the <a href="/wiki/French_National_Guard" class="mw-redirect" title="French National Guard">French National Guard</a> joined the revolt, the loyal <a href="/wiki/Swiss_Guards" title="Swiss Guards">Swiss Guards</a> were massacred and the King was deposed. </p><p>From 1792, the Revolutionary Army fought against a combination of European powers in the <a href="/wiki/French_Revolutionary_Wars" title="French Revolutionary Wars">French Revolutionary Wars</a>, with the state directing most of its industry and population to war efforts, marking the start of modern <a href="/wiki/Conscription" title="Conscription">conscription</a> in the world,<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> it also allowed more flexible military strategies, setting way for <a href="/wiki/Napoleonic_Wars" title="Napoleonic Wars">Napoleonic warfare</a>. Moreover, many noble officers were retired, decreasing <a href="/wiki/Social_stratification" title="Social stratification">stratification</a> and increasing <a href="/wiki/Military_specialism" title="Military specialism">military specialism</a>. These, and the extreme investments into war efforts allowed France to begin a <a href="/wiki/Sister_republic" title="Sister republic">steady advance into Europe</a>. </p><p>Under <a href="/wiki/Napoleon_I" class="mw-redirect" title="Napoleon I">Napoleon I</a>, the <a href="/wiki/French_Imperial_Army" class="mw-redirect" title="French Imperial Army">French Imperial Army</a> conquered most of Europe during the <a href="/wiki/Napoleonic_Wars" title="Napoleonic Wars">Napoleonic Wars</a>. Professionalising again from the Revolutionary forces and using columns of attack with heavy artillery support and swarms of pursuit cavalry the French army under Napoleon and his marshals was able to outmanoeuvre and destroy the allied armies repeatedly until 1812. Napoleon introduced the concept of all arms <a href="/wiki/Corps" title="Corps">Corps</a>, each one a traditional army 'in miniature', permitting the field force to be split across several lines of march and rejoin or to operate independently. The <i><a href="/wiki/Grande_Arm%C3%A9e" title="Grande Armée">Grande Armée</a></i> operated by seeking a decisive battle with each enemy army and then destroying them in detail before rapidly occupying territory and forcing a peace. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Charles_Meynier_-_Entr%C3%A9e_de_Napol%C3%A9on_%C3%A0_Berlin._27_octobre_1806.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Charles_Meynier_-_Entr%C3%A9e_de_Napol%C3%A9on_%C3%A0_Berlin._27_octobre_1806.jpg/220px-Charles_Meynier_-_Entr%C3%A9e_de_Napol%C3%A9on_%C3%A0_Berlin._27_octobre_1806.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Charles_Meynier_-_Entr%C3%A9e_de_Napol%C3%A9on_%C3%A0_Berlin._27_octobre_1806.jpg/330px-Charles_Meynier_-_Entr%C3%A9e_de_Napol%C3%A9on_%C3%A0_Berlin._27_octobre_1806.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Charles_Meynier_-_Entr%C3%A9e_de_Napol%C3%A9on_%C3%A0_Berlin._27_octobre_1806.jpg/440px-Charles_Meynier_-_Entr%C3%A9e_de_Napol%C3%A9on_%C3%A0_Berlin._27_octobre_1806.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3200" data-file-height="2119" /></a><figcaption><i><a href="/wiki/Entry_of_Napoleon_into_Berlin" title="Entry of Napoleon into Berlin">Entry of Napoleon into Berlin</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Charles_Meynier" title="Charles Meynier">Charles Meynier</a>. After defeating Prussian forces at <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Jena-Auerstedt" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Jena-Auerstedt">Jena</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Grande_Arm%C3%A9e" title="Grande Armée">Grande Armée</a> entered Berlin on 27 October 1806</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1812, Napoleon invaded the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Empire" title="Russian Empire">Russian Empire</a> with a new <i>Grande Armee</i>, seeking to remove their influence from <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Europe" title="Eastern Europe">eastern Europe</a> and secure the frontiers of his <a href="/wiki/First_French_Empire" title="First French Empire">empire</a> and client states. The campaign initially went well, but the vast distances of the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Steppe" class="mw-redirect" title="Russian Steppe">Russian Steppe</a> and its cold winter forced his army into a shambling retreat preyed on by Russian raids and pursuit. This force could not be replaced and with the "ulcer" of the ongoing war in the Spanish peninsular against Britain and Portugal, the French Army was badly short of trained troops and French manpower was almost exhausted. </p><p>After Napoleon's abdication and return, halted by an Anglo-Dutch and Prussian alliance at Waterloo, the French army was placed back under the restored Bourbon Monarchy. The structure remained largely unchanged and many officers of the Empire retained their positions.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPichichero2018_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPichichero2018-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_19th_century">The 19th century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=French_Army&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: The 19th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Bourbon restoration was a time of political instability with the country constantly on the verge of political violence.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEde_la_Gorce1963_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEde_la_Gorce1963-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The army was committed to the <a href="/wiki/Hundred_Thousand_Sons_of_Saint_Louis" title="Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis">restoration of Spanish monarchial absolutism</a> in 1824. It achieved its aims in six months, but did not fully withdraw until 1828. By comparison with the earlier Napoleonic invasion, this expedition was rapid and successful. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Prise_de_la_Zaatcha_(1849).png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Prise_de_la_Zaatcha_%281849%29.png/220px-Prise_de_la_Zaatcha_%281849%29.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="139" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Prise_de_la_Zaatcha_%281849%29.png/330px-Prise_de_la_Zaatcha_%281849%29.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Prise_de_la_Zaatcha_%281849%29.png/440px-Prise_de_la_Zaatcha_%281849%29.png 2x" data-file-width="1394" data-file-height="880" /></a><figcaption>The conquest of Algeria</figcaption></figure> <p>Taking advantage of the weakness of the local <a href="/wiki/Bey" title="Bey">bey</a>, the <a href="/wiki/French_invasion_of_Algiers" class="mw-redirect" title="French invasion of Algiers">French invasion of Algiers</a> in 1830 again rapidly overcame initial resistance. The French government formally <a href="/wiki/French_Algeria" title="French Algeria">annexed</a> Algeria but it took nearly 45 years to fully pacify the country. This period of French history saw the creation of the <span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr"><a href="/wiki/Army_of_Africa_(France)" title="Army of Africa (France)">Armée d’Afrique</a></i></span>, which included the <a href="/wiki/French_Foreign_Legion" title="French Foreign Legion">Légion étrangère</a>. The Army was now uniformed in dark blue coats and red trousers, which it would retain until the First World War. </p><p>The news of the fall of Algiers had barely reached Paris in 1830 when the Bourbon Monarchy was <a href="/wiki/July_Revolution" title="July Revolution">overthrown</a> and replaced by the constitutional <a href="/wiki/July_Monarchy" title="July Monarchy">Orleans Monarchy</a>. During the <a href="/wiki/July_Revolution" title="July Revolution">July 1830 revolution</a>, the Paris mobs proved too much for the troops of the <span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr">Maison du Roi</i></span> and the main body of the French Army, sympathetic to the crowds, did not become heavily involved. </p><p>In 1848 a wave of revolutions swept Europe and <a href="/wiki/French_Revolution_of_1848" title="French Revolution of 1848">brought an end</a> to the French monarchy. The army was largely uninvolved in the street fighting in Paris which overthrew the King but later in the year troops were used in the suppression of the more <a href="/wiki/June_Days_uprising" title="June Days uprising">radical elements</a> of the new Republic which led to the election of Napoleon's nephew as president. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Napol%C3%A9on_III_et_l%27Italie_-_Gerolamo_Induno_-_La_bataille_de_Magenta_-_001.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Napol%C3%A9on_III_et_l%27Italie_-_Gerolamo_Induno_-_La_bataille_de_Magenta_-_001.jpg/220px-Napol%C3%A9on_III_et_l%27Italie_-_Gerolamo_Induno_-_La_bataille_de_Magenta_-_001.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="126" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Napol%C3%A9on_III_et_l%27Italie_-_Gerolamo_Induno_-_La_bataille_de_Magenta_-_001.jpg/330px-Napol%C3%A9on_III_et_l%27Italie_-_Gerolamo_Induno_-_La_bataille_de_Magenta_-_001.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Napol%C3%A9on_III_et_l%27Italie_-_Gerolamo_Induno_-_La_bataille_de_Magenta_-_001.jpg/440px-Napol%C3%A9on_III_et_l%27Italie_-_Gerolamo_Induno_-_La_bataille_de_Magenta_-_001.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3934" data-file-height="2258" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Magenta" title="Battle of Magenta">Battle of Magenta</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The Pope had been forced out of Rome as part of the Revolutions of 1848, and Louis Napoleon sent a 14,000 man expeditionary force of troops to the Papal State under General <a href="/w/index.php?title=Nicolas_Charles_Victor_Oudinot&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nicolas Charles Victor Oudinot (page does not exist)">Nicolas Charles Victor Oudinot</a> to restore him. In late April 1849, it was defeated and pushed back from Rome by <a href="/wiki/Giuseppi_Garibaldi" class="mw-redirect" title="Giuseppi Garibaldi">Giuseppi Garibaldi</a>'s volunteer corps, but then recovered and recaptured Rome. </p><p>The French army was among the first in the world to be issued with <a href="/wiki/Mini%C3%A9_rifle" title="Minié rifle">Minié rifles</a>, just in time for the <a href="/wiki/Crimean_War" title="Crimean War">Crimean War</a> against Russia, allied with Britain. This invention gave line infantry a weapon with a much longer range and greater accuracy and lead to new flexible tactics. The French army was more experienced at mass manoeuvre and war fighting than the British and the reputation of the French army was greatly enhanced. </p><p>A series of colonial expeditions followed and in 1856 France joined the <a href="/wiki/Second_Opium_War" title="Second Opium War">Second Opium War</a> on the British side against China; obtaining concessions. French troops were deployed into <a href="/wiki/Second_Italian_War_of_Independence" title="Second Italian War of Independence">Italy</a> against the Austrians, the first use of railways for mass movement. </p><p>The French army was now considered to be an example to others and military missions to <a href="/wiki/French_military_mission_to_Japan_(1867%E2%80%9368)" class="mw-redirect" title="French military mission to Japan (1867–68)">Japan</a> and the emulation of French <a href="/wiki/Zouave" title="Zouave">Zouaves</a> in other militaries added to this prestige. However, an <a href="/wiki/Second_French_intervention_in_Mexico" title="Second French intervention in Mexico">expedition</a> to Mexico failed to create a stable puppet régime. </p><p>France was humiliated following its defeat in the <a href="/wiki/Franco-Prussian_War" title="Franco-Prussian War">Franco-Prussian War</a>, and while the army had far superior infantry weapons in the form of the <a href="/wiki/Chassepot" title="Chassepot">Chassepot</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mitrailleuse" title="Mitrailleuse">Mitrailleuse</a>, its tactics and artillery were inferior, and by allowing the <a href="/wiki/Prussian_Army" title="Prussian Army">Prussian Army</a> to take the initiative, the French Army was rapidly bottled up into its fortress towns and defeated. The loss of prestige within the army lead to a great emphasis on aggression and close quarter tactics. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_World_Wars">The World Wars</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=French_Army&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: The World Wars"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/French_Army_in_World_War_I" title="French Army in World War I">French Army in World War I</a></div> <p>In August 1914, following the outbreak of the <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">Great War</a>, the <a href="/wiki/French_Armed_Forces" title="French Armed Forces">French Armed Forces</a> numbered some 1,300,000 soldiers, and by the end of the war the French Army had called up 8,817,000 men, including 900,000 colonial troops; of these around 1,397,000 French soldiers were killed in action, mostly on the <a href="/wiki/Western_Front_(World_War_I)" title="Western Front (World War I)">Western Front</a>. French soldiers, at the beginning of the war, still wore the colourful uniforms of the <a href="/wiki/Franco-Prussian_War" title="Franco-Prussian War">Franco-Prussian War</a>, with this conspicuous dress proving unsuited to the trenches and, accordingly, by 1915 the mostly blue and red peacetime uniforms had been replaced by <i><a href="/wiki/Horizon_blue" title="Horizon blue">bleu-horizon</a></i> (light blue-grey), with the <a href="/wiki/Adrian_helmet" title="Adrian helmet">Adrian helmet</a> in place of the <a href="/wiki/Kepi" title="Kepi">kepi</a>. The traditional <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/capote" class="extiw" title="wikt:capote">capote</a> of the French infantry continued to be worn in the trenches but in <i>bleu-horizon</i>. Colonial and North African soldiers adopted khaki uniforms.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEde_la_Gorce1963_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEde_la_Gorce1963-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:De_Gaulle-OWI.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/De_Gaulle-OWI.jpg/160px-De_Gaulle-OWI.jpg" decoding="async" width="160" height="236" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/De_Gaulle-OWI.jpg/240px-De_Gaulle-OWI.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/De_Gaulle-OWI.jpg/320px-De_Gaulle-OWI.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2480" data-file-height="3663" /></a><figcaption>Brigadier general <a href="/wiki/Charles_de_Gaulle" title="Charles de Gaulle">Charles de Gaulle</a></figcaption></figure><figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:El_114_de_infanter%C3%ADa,_en_Par%C3%ADs,_el_14_de_julio_de_1917,_Le%C3%B3n_Gimpel.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/El_114_de_infanter%C3%ADa%2C_en_Par%C3%ADs%2C_el_14_de_julio_de_1917%2C_Le%C3%B3n_Gimpel.jpg/220px-El_114_de_infanter%C3%ADa%2C_en_Par%C3%ADs%2C_el_14_de_julio_de_1917%2C_Le%C3%B3n_Gimpel.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="157" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/El_114_de_infanter%C3%ADa%2C_en_Par%C3%ADs%2C_el_14_de_julio_de_1917%2C_Le%C3%B3n_Gimpel.jpg/330px-El_114_de_infanter%C3%ADa%2C_en_Par%C3%ADs%2C_el_14_de_julio_de_1917%2C_Le%C3%B3n_Gimpel.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/El_114_de_infanter%C3%ADa%2C_en_Par%C3%ADs%2C_el_14_de_julio_de_1917%2C_Le%C3%B3n_Gimpel.jpg/440px-El_114_de_infanter%C3%ADa%2C_en_Par%C3%ADs%2C_el_14_de_julio_de_1917%2C_Le%C3%B3n_Gimpel.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1123" data-file-height="800" /></a><figcaption>French <a href="/wiki/Poilus" class="mw-redirect" title="Poilus">Poilus</a> posing with their war-torn flag in 1917, during <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a></figcaption></figure> <p>At the beginning of the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_France" title="Battle of France">Battle of France</a> the French Army deployed 2,240,000 combatants grouped into 94 <a href="/wiki/Division_(military)" title="Division (military)">divisions</a> (of which 20 were active and 74 were <a href="/wiki/Reservist" title="Reservist">reservists</a>) from the Swiss border to the <a href="/wiki/North_Sea" title="North Sea">North Sea</a>.These numbers did not include the Army of the Alps facing Italy or the 600,000 men dispersed through the <a href="/wiki/French_colonial_empire" title="French colonial empire">French colonial empire</a>. After <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_France" title="Battle of France">defeat in 1940</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Vichy_France" title="Vichy France">Vichy French</a> regime was allowed to retain 100–120,000 <a href="/wiki/Armistice_Army" title="Armistice Army">Armistice Army</a> personnel in unoccupied France, and larger forces in the <a href="/wiki/French_colonial_empire" title="French colonial empire">French Empire</a>: more than 220,000 in Africa (including 140,000 in <a href="/wiki/French_North_Africa" title="French North Africa">French North Africa</a>),<sup id="cite_ref-quid_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-quid-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and forces in Mandate Syria and <a href="/wiki/French_Indochina" title="French Indochina">French Indochina</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-jm_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jm-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Free_French_Forces" class="mw-redirect" title="Free French Forces">Free French Forces</a>, under the command of <a href="/wiki/Charles_de_Gaulle" title="Charles de Gaulle">Charles de Gaulle</a>, continued the fight with the Allies until the final defeat of the Axis in 1945. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Cold_War">The Cold War</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=French_Army&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: The Cold War"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Free_French_Foreign_Legionnairs.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Free_French_Foreign_Legionnairs.jpg/220px-Free_French_Foreign_Legionnairs.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="218" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Free_French_Foreign_Legionnairs.jpg/330px-Free_French_Foreign_Legionnairs.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Free_French_Foreign_Legionnairs.jpg/440px-Free_French_Foreign_Legionnairs.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="792" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Free_French_Forces" class="mw-redirect" title="Free French Forces">Free French</a> <a href="/wiki/French_Foreign_Legion" title="French Foreign Legion">Foreign Legionnaires</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Bir_Hakeim" title="Battle of Bir Hakeim">Battle of Bir Hakeim</a> (1942)</figcaption></figure> <p>After 1945, despite enormous efforts in the <a href="/wiki/First_Indochina_War" title="First Indochina War">First Indochina War</a> of 1945–54 and the <a href="/wiki/Algerian_War" title="Algerian War">Algerian War</a> of 1954–62, both lands eventually left French control. French units stayed in Germany after 1945, forming the <a href="/wiki/French_Forces_in_Germany" title="French Forces in Germany">French Forces in Germany</a>. <a href="/wiki/5th_Armored_Division_(France)" title="5th Armored Division (France)">5th Armored Division</a> stayed on in Germany after 1945, while 1st and 3rd Armoured Divisions were established in Germany in 1951. However <a href="/wiki/NATO" title="NATO">NATO</a>-assigned formations were withdrawn to fight in Algeria; 5th Armoured Division arrived in Algeria in April 1956.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEClayton1988189_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEClayton1988189-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From 1948 to 1966, many French Army units fell under the integrated <a href="/wiki/NATO_Military_Command_Structure" class="mw-redirect" title="NATO Military Command Structure">NATO Military Command Structure</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEIsbyKamps1985106_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEIsbyKamps1985106-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Commander-in-Chief <a href="/wiki/Allied_Forces_Central_Europe" class="mw-redirect" title="Allied Forces Central Europe">Allied Forces Central Europe</a> was a French Army officer, and many key NATO staff positions were filled by Frenchmen. While an upper limit of 14 French divisions committed to NATO had been set by the Treaty of Paris, the total did not exceed six divisions during the Indochina War, and during the Algerian War the total fell as low as two divisions. </p><p>The Army created two parachute divisions in 1956, the <a href="/wiki/10th_Parachute_Division_(France)" title="10th Parachute Division (France)">10th Parachute Division</a> under the command of General <a href="/wiki/Jacques_Massu" title="Jacques Massu">Jacques Massu</a> and the <a href="/wiki/25th_Parachute_Division_(France)" title="25th Parachute Division (France)">25th Parachute Division</a> under the command of General Sauvagnac.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEClayton1988190_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEClayton1988190-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After the <a href="/wiki/Algiers_putsch" class="mw-redirect" title="Algiers putsch">Algiers putsch</a>, the two divisions, with the 11th Infantry Division, were merged into a new light intervention division, the 11th Light Intervention Division, on 1 May 1961.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the <a href="/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War">Cold War</a>, the French Army, though leaving the <a href="/wiki/NATO_Military_Command_Structure" class="mw-redirect" title="NATO Military Command Structure">NATO Military Command Structure</a> in 1966, planned for the defence of Western Europe.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEIsbyKamps1985105-108_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEIsbyKamps1985105-108-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1977 the French Army switched from multi-brigade divisions to smaller divisions of about four to five battalions/regiments each. From the early 1970s, <a href="/wiki/2nd_Army_Corps_(France)" title="2nd Army Corps (France)">2nd Army Corps</a> was stationed in South Germany, and effectively formed a reserve for NATO's <a href="/wiki/Central_Army_Group" class="mw-redirect" title="Central Army Group">Central Army Group</a>. In the 1980s, <a href="/wiki/3rd_Army_Corps_(France)" title="3rd Army Corps (France)">3rd Army Corps</a> headquarters was moved to <a href="/wiki/Lille" title="Lille">Lille</a> and planning started for its use in support of NATO's <a href="/wiki/Northern_Army_Group" title="Northern Army Group">Northern Army Group</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Rapid_Action_Force_(France)" title="Rapid Action Force (France)">Rapid Action Force</a> of five light divisions, including the new 4th Airmobile and <a href="/wiki/6th_Light_Armoured_Division_(France)" class="mw-redirect" title="6th Light Armoured Division (France)">6th Light Armoured Divisions</a>, was also intended as a NATO reinforcement force. In addition, the <a href="/wiki/152nd_Infantry_Division_(France)" title="152nd Infantry Division (France)">152nd Infantry Division</a> was maintained to guard the <a href="/wiki/S3_(missile)" title="S3 (missile)">S3</a> <a href="/wiki/Intercontinental_ballistic_missile" title="Intercontinental ballistic missile">intercontinental ballistic missile</a> base on the Plateau d'Albion. </p><p>In the 1970s–1980s, two light armoured divisions were planned to be formed from school staffs (the 12th and 14th). The 12th Light Armoured Division (12 DLB) was to have its headquarters to be formed on the basis of the staff of the <a href="/wiki/Armoured_and_Cavalry_Branch_Training_School" class="mw-redirect" title="Armoured and Cavalry Branch Training School">Armoured and Cavalry Branch Training School</a> at <a href="/wiki/Saumur" title="Saumur">Saumur</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the late 1970s an attempt was made to form 14 reserve light infantry divisions, but this plan, which included the recreation of the <a href="/w/index.php?title=109th_Infantry_Division&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="109th Infantry Division (page does not exist)">109th Infantry Division</a><sup class="noprint" style="font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/109e_division_d%27infanterie_(France)" class="extiw" title="fr:109e division d'infanterie (France)">fr</a>]</sup>, was too ambitious. The planned divisions included the 102nd, 104e, 107e, 108e, 109e, 110e, 111e, 112e, 114e, 115th, and 127th Infantry Divisions. From June 1984, the French Army reserve consisted of 22 military divisions, administering all reserve units in a certain area, seven <i>brigades de zone de défense</i>, 22 <i>régiments interarmées divisionnaires</i>, and the 152nd Infantry Division, defending the ICBM launch sites.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEIsbyKamps1985111,_162_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEIsbyKamps1985111,_162-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The plan was put into action from 1985, and <i>brigades de zone</i>, such as the 107th Brigade de Zone, were created.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> But with the putting-in-place of the "Réserves 2000" plan, the brigades de zone were finally disbanded by mid-1993.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/1st_Army_Corps_(France)" title="1st Army Corps (France)">1st Army Corps</a> was disbanded on 1 July 1990; 2nd Army Corps in August 1993. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Decolonisation">Decolonisation</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=French_Army&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Decolonisation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Commando_de_chasse_V66_du_4me_Zouaves.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Commando_de_chasse_V66_du_4me_Zouaves.jpg/220px-Commando_de_chasse_V66_du_4me_Zouaves.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="156" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Commando_de_chasse_V66_du_4me_Zouaves.jpg/330px-Commando_de_chasse_V66_du_4me_Zouaves.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Commando_de_chasse_V66_du_4me_Zouaves.jpg/440px-Commando_de_chasse_V66_du_4me_Zouaves.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1177" data-file-height="832" /></a><figcaption>Soldiers of the 4th <a href="/wiki/Zouave" title="Zouave">zouaves</a> regiment during the <a href="/wiki/Algerian_War" title="Algerian War">Algerian War</a> </figcaption></figure> <p>At the end of the <a href="/wiki/Second_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Second World War">Second World War</a>, France was immediately confronted with the beginnings of the <a href="/wiki/Decolonisation" class="mw-redirect" title="Decolonisation">decolonisation</a> movement. The French army, which had employed indigenous North African <a href="/wiki/Spahis" class="mw-redirect" title="Spahis">spahis</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tirailleurs" class="mw-redirect" title="Tirailleurs">tirailleurs</a> in almost all of its campaigns since 1830, was the leading force in opposition to decolonization, which was perceived as a humiliation.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In Algeria the Army repressed an extensive rising in and around <a href="/wiki/S%C3%A9tif_and_Guelma_massacre" title="Sétif and Guelma massacre">Sétif</a> in May 1945 with heavy fire: figures for Algerian deaths vary between 45,000 as claimed by Radio Cairo at the time<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the official French figure of 1,020.<sup id="cite_ref-Horne26_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Horne26-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Army saw maintaining control of Algeria as a high priority. By this time, one million French settlers had established themselves, alongside an indigenous population of nine million. When it decided that politicians were about to sell them out and give independence to Algeria, the Army engineered a military coup that toppled the civilian government and put General de Gaulle back in power in the <a href="/wiki/May_1958_crisis" class="mw-redirect" title="May 1958 crisis">May 1958 crisis</a>. De Gaulle, however, recognized that Algeria was a dead weight and had to be cut free. Four retired generals then launched the <a href="/wiki/Algiers_putsch_of_1961" title="Algiers putsch of 1961">Algiers putsch of 1961</a> against de Gaulle himself, but it failed. After 400,000 deaths, Algeria finally became independent. Hundreds of thousands of <a href="/wiki/Harkis" class="mw-redirect" title="Harkis">Harkis</a>, Muslims loyal to Paris, went into exile in France, where they and their children and grandchildren remain in poorly assimilated "<a href="/wiki/Banlieue" title="Banlieue">banlieue</a>" suburbs.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Army repressed the <a href="/wiki/Malagasy_Uprising" title="Malagasy Uprising">Malagasy Uprising</a> in Madagascar in 1947. French officials estimated the number of Malagasy killed from a low of 11,000 to a French Army estimate of 89,000.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEClayton199485_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEClayton199485-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Recent_history_(1996–present)"><span id="Recent_history_.281996.E2.80.93present.29"></span>Recent history (1996–present)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=French_Army&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Recent history (1996–present)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:SETC_France%E2%80%99s_Defensive_Operations_Lane_(41661152745).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/SETC_France%E2%80%99s_Defensive_Operations_Lane_%2841661152745%29.jpg/220px-SETC_France%E2%80%99s_Defensive_Operations_Lane_%2841661152745%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/SETC_France%E2%80%99s_Defensive_Operations_Lane_%2841661152745%29.jpg/330px-SETC_France%E2%80%99s_Defensive_Operations_Lane_%2841661152745%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/SETC_France%E2%80%99s_Defensive_Operations_Lane_%2841661152745%29.jpg/440px-SETC_France%E2%80%99s_Defensive_Operations_Lane_%2841661152745%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2248" data-file-height="1500" /></a><figcaption>A French <a href="/wiki/Leclerc_tank" title="Leclerc tank">Leclerc tank</a> in camouflage Central-Europe in 2018.</figcaption></figure> <p>In February 1996, President <a href="/wiki/Jacques_Chirac" title="Jacques Chirac">Jacques Chirac</a> began the transition of the Army to a professional force, and as part of the resulting changes, ten regiments were dissolved in 1997.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 1 July 1997, the specialized support brigades were transferred to various <a href="/wiki/Communes_of_France" title="Communes of France">communes</a>; <a href="/wiki/Lun%C3%A9ville" title="Lunéville">Lunéville</a> for signals, <a href="/wiki/Haguenau" title="Haguenau">Haguenau</a> for artillery and <a href="/wiki/Strasbourg" title="Strasbourg">Strasbourg</a> for engineers. On 1 September 1997, the <a href="/wiki/2nd_Armored_Division_(France)" title="2nd Armored Division (France)">2nd Armoured Division</a> left <a href="/wiki/Versailles" class="mw-redirect" title="Versailles">Versailles</a> and was installed at <a href="/wiki/Ch%C3%A2lons-en-Champagne" title="Châlons-en-Champagne">Châlons-en-Champagne</a> in place of the disbanded <a href="/wiki/10th_Armoured_Division_(France)" title="10th Armoured Division (France)">10th Armoured Division</a>. On 5 March 1998, in view of the ongoing structural adoptions of the French Army, the <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Defence_(France)" class="mw-redirect" title="Minister of Defence (France)">Minister of Defence</a> decided to disband <a href="/wiki/III_Corps_(France)" class="mw-redirect" title="III Corps (France)">III Corps</a>, and the dissolution became effective 1 July 1998. The headquarters transitioned to become Headquarters <a href="/wiki/Commandement_de_la_force_d%27action_terrestre" class="mw-redirect" title="Commandement de la force d'action terrestre">Commandement de la force d'action terrestre</a> (CFAT) (the Land Forces Action Command). </p><p>During the professionalisation process, numbers decreased from the 236,000 (132,000 conscripts) in 1996 to around 140,000.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By June 1999, the Army's strength was 186,000, including around 70,000 conscripts. 38 of 129 regiments were planned to be stood down from 1997 to 1999. The previous structure's nine 'small' divisions and sundry separate combat and combat support brigades were replaced by nine combat and four combat support brigades. The Rapid Action Force, a corps of five small rapid-intervention divisions formed in 1983, was also disbanded, though several of its divisions were re-subordinated. </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Strasbourg_op%C3%A9ration_Sentinelle_20_janvier_2015.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Strasbourg_op%C3%A9ration_Sentinelle_20_janvier_2015.jpg/260px-Strasbourg_op%C3%A9ration_Sentinelle_20_janvier_2015.jpg" decoding="async" width="260" height="173" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Strasbourg_op%C3%A9ration_Sentinelle_20_janvier_2015.jpg/390px-Strasbourg_op%C3%A9ration_Sentinelle_20_janvier_2015.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Strasbourg_op%C3%A9ration_Sentinelle_20_janvier_2015.jpg/520px-Strasbourg_op%C3%A9ration_Sentinelle_20_janvier_2015.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2380" data-file-height="1587" /></a><figcaption>Soldiers on patrol during Opération sentinelle (2015)</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Op%C3%A9ration_Sentinelle" title="Opération Sentinelle">Opération Sentinelle</a> is a French military operation with 10,000 soldiers and 4,700 police and gendarmes deployed since the aftermath of the <a href="/wiki/January_2015_%C3%8Ele-de-France_attacks" title="January 2015 Île-de-France attacks">January 2015 Île-de-France attacks</a>, with the objective of protecting sensitive "points" of the territory from <a href="/wiki/Terrorism" title="Terrorism">terrorism</a>. It was reinforced during the <a href="/wiki/November_2015_Paris_attacks" title="November 2015 Paris attacks">November 2015 Paris attacks</a>, and was part of a <a href="/wiki/State_of_emergency_in_France" class="mw-redirect" title="State of emergency in France">state of emergency in France</a> due to continued terror threats and attacks.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-sky_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sky-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Organisation">Organisation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/200px-Flag_of_France.svg.png" decoding="async" width="200" height="133" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/300px-Flag_of_France.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/400px-Flag_of_France.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure></td></tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading"> Components</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Structure_of_the_French_Army" title="Structure of the French Army">Structure</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_French_Army_regiments" title="List of French Army regiments">List of current regiments</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/French_Army_Light_Aviation" title="French Army Light Aviation">Army Light Aviation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armoured_Cavalry_Arm" title="Armoured Cavalry Arm">Armoured Cavalry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Troupes_de_marine" title="Troupes de marine">Troupes de marine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/French_Foreign_Legion" title="French Foreign Legion">French Foreign Legion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chasseurs_Alpins" title="Chasseurs Alpins">Chasseurs alpins</a></li></ul> </div></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading"> Administration</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <a href="/wiki/Chief_of_Staff_of_the_French_Army" title="Chief of Staff of the French Army">Chief of Army Staff</a></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading"> Equipment</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <a href="/wiki/List_of_equipment_of_the_French_Army" title="List of equipment of the French Army">Modern Equipment</a></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading"> Personnel</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ranks_in_the_French_Army" title="Ranks in the French Army">Army ranks</a></li></ul> </div></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading"> History</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <a href="/wiki/Military_history_of_France" title="Military history of France">Military history of France</a></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading"> <a href="/wiki/Ribbons_of_the_French_military_and_civil_awards" title="Ribbons of the French military and civil awards">Awards</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Croix_de_Guerre" title="Croix de Guerre">Croix de Guerre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M%C3%A9daille_militaire" title="Médaille militaire">Médaille militaire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Legion_of_Honour" title="Legion of Honour">Légion d'honneur</a></li></ul> </div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-navbar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239400231">.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:inline;font-size:88%;font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output 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.navbar{display:none!important}}</style><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:French_Army" title="Template:French Army"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:French_Army" title="Template talk:French Army"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:French_Army" title="Special:EditPage/Template:French Army"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The organisation of the army is fixed by Chapter 2 of Title II of Book II of the Third Part of the Code of Defense, notably resulting in the codification of Decree 2000-559 of 21 June 2000.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In terms of Article R.3222-3 of the Code of Defence,<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the Army comprises: </p> <ul><li>The Army Chief of Staff (Chef d'état-major de l'armée de Terre (CEMAT)).</li> <li>The army staff (<i>l'état-major de l'armée de Terre</i> or EMAT), which gives general direction and management of all the components;</li> <li>The Army Inspectorate (<i>l'inspection de l'armée de Terre</i>);</li> <li>The Army Human Resources Directorate (<i>la direction des ressources humaines de l'armée de Terre</i> or DRHAT);</li> <li>The forces;</li> <li>A territorial organisation (seven regions, see below)</li> <li>The services;</li> <li>The personnel training and military higher training organisms.</li></ul> <p>The French Army was reorganized in 2016. The new organisation consists of two combined <a href="/wiki/Division_(military)" title="Division (military)">divisions</a> (carrying the heritage of <a href="/wiki/1st_Armored_Division_(France)" title="1st Armored Division (France)">1st Armored</a> and <a href="/wiki/3rd_Armored_Division_(France)" title="3rd Armored Division (France)">3rd Armored</a> divisions) and given three combat brigades to supervise each. There is also the <a href="/wiki/Franco-German_Brigade" title="Franco-German Brigade">Franco-German Brigade</a>. The <a href="/wiki/4th_Airmobile_Brigade_(France)" title="4th Airmobile Brigade (France)">4th Airmobile Brigade</a> was reformed to direct the three combat helicopter regiments. There are also several division-level (<i>niveau divisionnaire</i>) specialized commands including Intelligence, Information and communication systems, Maintenance, Logistics, Special Forces, <a href="/wiki/French_Army_Light_Aviation" title="French Army Light Aviation">Army Light Aviation</a>, the <a href="/wiki/French_Foreign_Legion" title="French Foreign Legion">Foreign Legion</a>, <a href="/wiki/National_Territory_Land_Command_(France)" title="National Territory Land Command (France)">National Territory</a>, Training. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Arms_of_the_French_Army">Arms of the French Army</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=French_Army&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Arms of the French Army"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Army is divided into arms (<i>armes</i>). They include the Infantry (which includes the <a href="/wiki/Chasseurs_Alpins" title="Chasseurs Alpins">Chasseurs Alpins</a>, specialist mountain infantry, the <i><a href="/wiki/Troupes_de_Marine" class="mw-redirect" title="Troupes de Marine">Troupes de Marine</a></i>, heirs of colonial troops and specialist amphibious troops), the <a href="/wiki/Armoured_Cavalry_Arm" title="Armoured Cavalry Arm">Armoured Cavalry Arm</a> (<i>Arme Blindée Cavalerie</i>), the Artillery, the <a href="/wiki/Engineering_Arm" title="Engineering Arm">Engineering Arm</a> (<i>l'arme du génie</i>), <i><a href="/wiki/Mat%C3%A9riel" class="mw-redirect" title="Matériel">Matériel</a></i>, Logistics (<i>Train</i>) and Signals (<a href="/wiki/Transmissions_(French_Army)" class="mw-redirect" title="Transmissions (French Army)"><i>Transmissions</i></a>).<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Each brigade will have several <i>armes</i> within its units. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/French_Foreign_Legion" title="French Foreign Legion">French Foreign Legion</a> was established in 1831 for foreign nationals willing to serve in the French Armed Forces. The Legion is commanded by French officers. It is an elite military unit numbering around 9,000 troops. The Legion has gained worldwide recognition for its service, most recently in <a href="/wiki/Operation_Enduring_Freedom" title="Operation Enduring Freedom">Operation Enduring Freedom</a> in Afghanistan since 2001. It is not strictly an <i>Arme</i> but a <i>commandement particulier</i>, whose regiments belong to several arms, notably the infantry and the engineering arm. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Troupes_de_marine" title="Troupes de marine">Troupes de marine</a> are the former Colonial Troops. They are the first choice units for overseas deployment and recruit on this basis. They are composed of Marine Infantry (<i>Infanterie de Marine</i>) (which includes parachute regiments such as <a href="/wiki/1er_RPIMa" class="mw-redirect" title="1er RPIMa">1er RPIMa</a> and a tank unit, the <i><a href="/wiki/R%C3%A9giment_d%27infanterie-chars_de_marine" title="Régiment d'infanterie-chars de marine">Régiment d'infanterie-chars de marine</a></i>) and the Marine Artillery (<i>Artillerie de Marine</i>). </p><p>The <i>Aviation légère de l'armée de Terre</i> (ALAT, which translates as <a href="/wiki/French_Army_Light_Aviation" title="French Army Light Aviation">Army Light Aviation</a>), was established on 22 November 1954 for observation, reconnaissance, assault and supply duties. It operates numerous helicopters in support of the French Army, its primary attack helicopter is the <a href="/wiki/Eurocopter_Tiger" title="Eurocopter Tiger">Eurocopter Tiger</a>, of which 80 were ordered. It is an <i>Arme</i> with a <i>commandement particulier</i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Administrative_services">Administrative services</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=French_Army&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Administrative services"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On the administrative side, there are now no more than one <b>Direction</b> and two services. </p><p>The Army Human Resources Directorate (DRHAT) manages human resources (military and civilian) of the Army and training. </p><p>The two Services are the service of ground equipment, and the integrated structure of operational maintenance of terrestrial materials (SIMMT, former DCMAT). This joint oriented service is responsible for project management support for all land equipment of the French army. The holding-operational equipment the Army is headed by the Service de maintenance industrielle terrestre (SMITer). </p><p>Historically there were other services of the Army who were all grouped together with their counterparts in other components to form joint agencies serving the entire French Armed Forces. </p><p>After the health service and the fuel service were both replaced respectively by the <a href="/wiki/French_Defence_Health_service" class="mw-redirect" title="French Defence Health service">French Defence Health service</a> and <a href="/wiki/Military_Fuel_Service_(France)" class="mw-redirect" title="Military Fuel Service (France)">Military Fuel Service</a>, other services have disappeared in recent years: </p> <ul><li>In 2005, the Army historical service (SHAT) became the "Land" department of the <a href="/wiki/Defence_Historical_Service" title="Defence Historical Service">Defence Historical Service</a> (Service historique de la défense);</li> <li>In September 2005, the Central Engineering Directorate (Direction centrale du génie, DCG) was merged with its counterparts in the air force and the navy to form the Central Directorate of Defense Infrastructure (Direction centrale du service d'infrastructure de la défense);</li> <li>On 1 January 2006, the Central Directorate of Telecommunications and Informatics (DCTEI) was incorporated into the Central Directorate of the <a href="/wiki/Joint_Directorate_of_Infrastructure_Networks_and_Information_Systems" title="Joint Directorate of Infrastructure Networks and Information Systems">Joint Directorate of Infrastructure Networks and Information Systems</a> (DIRISI);</li></ul> <p>The Army Commissariat was dissolved on 31 December 2009 and intégrated into the joint-service Service du commissariat des armées. </p><p>There is the <a href="/wiki/Diocese_of_the_French_Armed_Forces" title="Diocese of the French Armed Forces">Diocese of the French Armed Forces</a> which provides pastoral care to <a href="/wiki/Catholic" class="mw-redirect" title="Catholic">Catholic</a> members of the Army. It is headed by <a href="/wiki/Luc_Ravel" title="Luc Ravel">Luc Ravel</a> and is headquartered in <span title="French-language text"><span lang="fr" style="font-style: normal;"><a href="/wiki/Les_Invalides" title="Les Invalides">Les Invalides</a></span></span>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Military_regions">Military regions</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=French_Army&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Military regions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 24 July 1873, the <a href="/wiki/French_Parliament" title="French Parliament">French Parliament</a> passed a law which created 18 military regions in <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_France" title="Metropolitan France">metropolitan France</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A <a href="/wiki/19th_Army_Corps_(France)" title="19th Army Corps (France)">19th Army Corps</a> was created in Algeria in September 1873 (see <a href="/w/index.php?title=R%C3%A9gion_militaire&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Région militaire (page does not exist)">Région militaire</a><sup class="noprint" style="font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9gion_militaire#Troisième_République" class="extiw" title="fr:Région militaire">fr</a>]</sup>). In 1905, the strength of the <i><a href="/wiki/Troupes_coloniales" title="Troupes coloniales">Troupes coloniales</a></i> stationed in the 19 military districts of metropolitan France was reported at 2,123 officers and 26,581 other ranks.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1946, following the Second World War ten military regions were created or recreated, in accordance with a decree of 18 February 1946. They included the 1st (Paris); 2e (Lille); 3e (Rennes); 4e (Bordeaux); 5e (Toulouse); 6e (Metz); 7e (Dijon); 8th (Lyon); the 9th (Marseille), and the 10th in Algeria. The <a href="/w/index.php?title=10th_Military_Region_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="10th Military Region (France) (page does not exist)">10th Military Region (France)</a> supervised <a href="/wiki/French_Algeria" title="French Algeria">French Algeria</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Algerian_War" title="Algerian War">Algerian War</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/D%C3%A9fense_op%C3%A9rationnelle_du_territoire" title="Défense opérationnelle du territoire">Défense opérationnelle du territoire</a> supervised reserve and home defence activities from 1959<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to the 1970s.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEIsbyKamps1985162_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEIsbyKamps1985162-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, by the 1980s the number had been reduced to six: the <a href="/w/index.php?title=1st_Military_Region_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1st Military Region (France) (page does not exist)">1st Military Region (France)</a> with its headquarters in Paris, the <a href="/w/index.php?title=2nd_Military_Region_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="2nd Military Region (France) (page does not exist)">2nd Military Region (France)</a> at <a href="/wiki/Lille" title="Lille">Lille</a>, the <a href="/w/index.php?title=3rd_Military_Region_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="3rd Military Region (France) (page does not exist)">3rd Military Region (France)</a> at <a href="/wiki/Rennes" title="Rennes">Rennes</a>, the <a href="/w/index.php?title=4th_Military_Region_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="4th Military Region (France) (page does not exist)">4th Military Region (France)</a> at <a href="/wiki/Bordeaux" title="Bordeaux">Bordeaux</a>, the <a href="/w/index.php?title=5th_Military_Region_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="5th Military Region (France) (page does not exist)">5th</a> at Lyons and the <a href="/w/index.php?title=6th_Military_Region_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="6th Military Region (France) (page does not exist)">6th</a> at Metz.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEIsbyKamps1985131–133_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEIsbyKamps1985131–133-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Each supervised up to five <i>division militaire territoriale</i> – military administrative sub-divisions, in 1984 sometimes supervising up to three reserve regiments each. Today, under the latest thorough reform of the French security and defence sector, there are seven <a href="/w/index.php?title=Zone_de_d%C3%A9fense_et_de_s%C3%A9curit%C3%A9&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Zone de défense et de sécurité (page does not exist)">Zone de défense et de sécurité</a><sup class="noprint" style="font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_de_d%C3%A9fense_et_de_s%C3%A9curit%C3%A9" class="extiw" title="fr:Zone de défense et de sécurité">fr</a>]</sup> each with a territorial ground army region: Paris (or Île-de-France, HQ in Paris), Nord (HQ in Lille), Ouest (HQ in Rennes), Sud-Ouest (HQ in Bordeaux), Sud (HQ in Marseille), Sud-Est (HQ in Lyon), Est (HQ in Strasbourg).<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personnel">Personnel</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=French_Army&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Personnel"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Strength">Strength</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=French_Army&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Strength"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table style="float:right;" class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <td colspan="2"><i><b>Personnel strength of the French Army 2022</b></i> </td></tr> <tr> <th><b>Category</b> </th> <td><b>Strength</b> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Commissioned officers </td> <td>14,155 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Non-commissioned officers </td> <td>38,684 </td></tr> <tr> <td>EVAT </td> <td>61,372 </td></tr> <tr> <td>VDAT </td> <td>466 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Civilian employees </td> <td>8,119 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Source:<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>As of 2020<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=French_Army&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, the French Army employed 118,600 personnel; this includes the <a href="/wiki/French_Foreign_Legion" title="French Foreign Legion">French Foreign Legion</a> and <a href="/wiki/Paris_Fire_Brigade" title="Paris Fire Brigade">Paris Fire Brigade</a>. In addition, the <a href="/wiki/Military_reserve_forces_of_France" title="Military reserve forces of France">reserves</a> of the French Army consist of 22,750 personnel.<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated1_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Contracts">Contracts</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=French_Army&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Contracts"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Enlistment contracts for French army soldiers can range from a one to a five-year contract, which are all renewable. Meanwhile, <a href="/wiki/Non-commissioned_officers" class="mw-redirect" title="Non-commissioned officers">Non-commissioned officers</a> serve on permanent contracts, or exceptionally on renewable five years-contracts. Though NCO candidates are required to have a high school diploma that grants them access to university. <i>École Nationale des Sous-Officiers d’Active (ENSOA)</i>, Basic NCO school of 8 months, followed by combat school of 4 to 36 weeks depending on occupational specialty. A small number of NCO candidates are trained at the <i>Ecole Militaire de Haute Montagne (EMHM)</i> (High Mountain Military School). NCOs with the Advanced Army Technician Certificate (BSTAT) can serve as <a href="/wiki/Platoon_leader" title="Platoon leader">platoon leaders</a>. </p><p>All Career officers serve on permanent contracts, with direct entry cadets with two years of <a href="/wiki/Classe_pr%C3%A9paratoire_aux_grandes_%C3%A9coles" title="Classe préparatoire aux grandes écoles">Classe préparatoire aux grandes écoles</a> or a <a href="/wiki/Bachelor%27s_degree" title="Bachelor's degree">bachelor's degree</a> spend three years at <a href="/wiki/%C3%89cole_Sp%C3%A9ciale_Militaire_de_Saint-Cyr" class="mw-redirect" title="École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr">École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr</a> (ESM), and graduate as <a href="/wiki/First_Lieutenant" class="mw-redirect" title="First Lieutenant">First Lieutenants</a>. Direct entry cadets with a <a href="/wiki/Master%27s_degree" title="Master's degree">master's degree</a> spend one year at ESM, and graduate as First Lieutenants. Non-commissioned officers with three years in the army, spend two years at <a href="/wiki/%C3%89cole_militaire_interarmes" title="École militaire interarmes">École militaire interarmes</a>, and graduate as First Lieutenants. 50% of the commissioned officers in the French Army are former NCOs. </p><p>Contract officers serve on renewable contracts for a maximum of 20 years service. A bachelor's degree is required. There are two different programs, combat officers and specialist officers. Officers in both programs graduate as <a href="/wiki/Second_Lieutenant" class="mw-redirect" title="Second Lieutenant">Second Lieutenants</a> and may reach <a href="/wiki/Lieutenant_Colonel" class="mw-redirect" title="Lieutenant Colonel">Lieutenant Colonels</a> rank. Combat officers spend eight months at ESM, followed by one year at a combat school. Specialist officers spend three months at ESM, followed by a year of on the job-training within an area of specialization determined by the type of degree held. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Women">Women</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=French_Army&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Women"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Civilian women were hired by the French army in the First World War, thereby opening new opportunities for them, forcing a redefinition of military identity, and revealing the strength of anti-Republicanism within the Army. Officers by the 1920s accepted women as part of their institution.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Code">Code</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=French_Army&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Code"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1999, the Army issued the <i>Code of the French Soldier</i>, which includes the injunctions: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Mastering his own strength, he respects his opponent and is careful to spare civilians. He obeys orders while respecting laws, customs of war and international conventions. (...) He is aware of global societies and respects their differences.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ranks">Ranks</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=French_Army&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Ranks"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Ranks_in_the_French_Army" title="Ranks in the French Army">Ranks in the French Army</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Commissioned_officer_ranks">Commissioned officer ranks</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=French_Army&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Commissioned officer ranks"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The rank insignia of <a href="/wiki/Commissioned_officer" class="mw-redirect" title="Commissioned officer">commissioned officers</a>. </p> <table style="border:1px solid #8888aa; background-color:#f7f8ff; padding:5px; font-size:95%; margin: 0px 12px 12px 0px;"> <tbody><tr style="background-color:#CCCCCC; width: 100%"> <th>NATO code</th> <th colspan="2">OF-10</th> <th colspan="2">OF-9</th> <th colspan="2">OF-8</th> <th colspan="2">OF-7</th> <th colspan="2">OF-6</th> <th colspan="2">OF-5</th> <th colspan="2">OF-4</th> <th colspan="2">OF-3</th> <th colspan="2">OF-2</th> <th colspan="6">OF-1 </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td rowspan="2"><b><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" 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</td> <td colspan="2"><span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr"><a href="/wiki/Divisional_general#France" title="Divisional general">Général de division</a></i></span> </td> <td colspan="2"><span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr"><a href="/wiki/Brigadier_general#France" title="Brigadier general">Général de brigade</a></i></span> </td> <td colspan="2"><span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr"><a href="/wiki/Colonel" title="Colonel">Colonel</a></i></span> </td> <td colspan="2"><span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr"><a href="/wiki/Lieutenant-colonel" class="mw-redirect" title="Lieutenant-colonel">Lieutenant-colonel</a></i></span> </td> <td colspan="2"><span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr"><a href="/wiki/Commandant_(rank)#France" title="Commandant (rank)">Commandant</a></i></span> </td> <td colspan="2"><span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr"><a href="/wiki/Captain_(armed_forces)" title="Captain (armed forces)">Capitaine</a></i></span> </td> <td colspan="3"><span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr"><a href="/wiki/Lieutenant#Army_rank" title="Lieutenant">Lieutenant</a></i></span> </td> <td colspan="3"><span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr"><a href="/wiki/Sub-lieutenant" title="Sub-lieutenant">Sous-lieutenant</a></i></span> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Other_ranks">Other ranks</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=French_Army&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Other ranks"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The rank insignia of <a href="/wiki/Non-commissioned_officer" title="Non-commissioned officer">non-commissioned officers</a> and <a href="/wiki/Enlisted_rank" title="Enlisted rank">enlisted personnel</a>. </p> <table style="border:1px solid #8888aa; background-color:#f7f8ff; padding:5px; font-size:95%; margin: 0px 12px 12px 0px;"> <tbody><tr style="background-color:#CCCCCC;"> <th><a href="/wiki/Ranks_and_insignia_of_NATO" title="Ranks and insignia of NATO">NATO code</a></th> <th colspan="6">OR-9</th> <th colspan="2">OR-8</th> <th colspan="2">OR-7</th> <th colspan="6">OR-6</th> <th colspan="6">OR-5</th> <th colspan="4">OR-4</th> <th colspan="2">OR-3</th> <th colspan="6">OR-2</th> <th colspan="2">OR-1 </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td rowspan="2"><b><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/23px-Flag_of_France.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/35px-Flag_of_France.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/46px-Flag_of_France.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a class="mw-selflink selflink">French Army</a></b><sup id="cite_ref-France_Army_44-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-France_Army-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul class="navbar-brackets"><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Ranks_and_Insignia_of_NATO_Armies/OR/France" title="Template:Ranks and Insignia of NATO Armies/OR/France"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Ranks_and_Insignia_of_NATO_Armies/OR/France" title="Template talk:Ranks and Insignia of NATO Armies/OR/France"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Ranks_and_Insignia_of_NATO_Armies/OR/France" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Ranks and 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typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Army-FRA-OR-05.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Army-FRA-OR-05.svg/50px-Army-FRA-OR-05.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="125" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Army-FRA-OR-05.svg/75px-Army-FRA-OR-05.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Army-FRA-OR-05.svg/100px-Army-FRA-OR-05.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="162" data-file-height="405" /></a></span> </td> <td colspan="2"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Army-FRA-OR-04a.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Army-FRA-OR-04a.svg/50px-Army-FRA-OR-04a.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="125" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Army-FRA-OR-04a.svg/75px-Army-FRA-OR-04a.svg.png 1.5x, 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class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Army-FRA-OR-03.svg/75px-Army-FRA-OR-03.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Army-FRA-OR-03.svg/100px-Army-FRA-OR-03.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="162" data-file-height="405" /></a></span> </td> <td colspan="6"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Army-FRA-OR-02.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Army-FRA-OR-02.svg/50px-Army-FRA-OR-02.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="125" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Army-FRA-OR-02.svg/75px-Army-FRA-OR-02.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Army-FRA-OR-02.svg/100px-Army-FRA-OR-02.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="162" data-file-height="405" /></a></span> </td> <td colspan="2"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Army-FRA-OR-01.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Army-FRA-OR-01.svg/50px-Army-FRA-OR-01.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="125" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Army-FRA-OR-01.svg/75px-Army-FRA-OR-01.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Army-FRA-OR-01.svg/100px-Army-FRA-OR-01.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="162" data-file-height="405" /></a></span> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td colspan="3"><span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr"><a href="/wiki/Major_(France)" title="Major (France)">Major</a></i></span> </td> <td colspan="3"><span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr"><a href="/wiki/Warrant_officer#France" title="Warrant officer">Adjudant-chef</a></i></span> </td> <td colspan="2"><span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr"><a href="/wiki/Adjutant#Military_rank" title="Adjutant">Adjudant</a></i></span> </td> <td colspan="2"><span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr"><a href="/wiki/Chief_sergeant" title="Chief sergeant">Sergent-chef BM2</a>/<br /><a href="/wiki/Mar%C3%A9chal_des_logis" title="Maréchal des logis">Maréchal-des-logis-chef de 1<sup>ere</sup> classe</a></i></span> </td> <td colspan="6"><span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr"><a href="/wiki/Chief_sergeant" title="Chief sergeant">Sergent-chef</a>/<br /><a href="/wiki/Mar%C3%A9chal_des_logis" title="Maréchal des logis">Maréchal-des-logis-chef</a></i></span> </td> <td colspan="6"><span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr"><a href="/wiki/Sergeant#France" title="Sergeant">Sergent</a>/<br /><a href="/wiki/Mar%C3%A9chal_des_logis" title="Maréchal des logis">Maréchal-des-logis</a></i></span> </td> <td colspan="2"><span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr"><a href="/wiki/Master_corporal" title="Master corporal">Caporal-chef de 1<sup>re</sup> classe</a></i></span> </td> <td colspan="2"><span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr"><a href="/wiki/Master_corporal" title="Master corporal">Caporal-chef</a>/<br /><a href="/wiki/Brigadier#Non-commissioned_rank" title="Brigadier">Brigadier-chef</a></i></span> </td> <td colspan="2"><span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr"><a href="/wiki/Caporal_(military_rank)" class="mw-redirect" title="Caporal (military rank)">Caporal</a>/<br /><a href="/wiki/Brigadier#Non-commissioned_rank" title="Brigadier">Brigadier</a></i></span> </td> <td colspan="6"><span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr"><a href="/wiki/Soldat_(rank)" title="Soldat (rank)">Soldat de 1<sup>re</sup> classe</a></i></span> </td> <td colspan="2"><span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr"><a href="/wiki/Soldat_(rank)" title="Soldat (rank)">Soldat</a></i></span> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Equipment">Equipment</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=French_Army&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Equipment"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/List_of_equipment_of_the_French_Army" title="List of equipment of the French Army">List of equipment of the French Army</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_active_military_aircraft_of_the_French_Armed_Forces" title="List of active military aircraft of the French Armed Forces">List of active military aircraft of the French Armed Forces</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:French,_US_forces_continue_working_side_by_side.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/French%2C_US_forces_continue_working_side_by_side.jpg/220px-French%2C_US_forces_continue_working_side_by_side.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/French%2C_US_forces_continue_working_side_by_side.jpg/330px-French%2C_US_forces_continue_working_side_by_side.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/French%2C_US_forces_continue_working_side_by_side.jpg/440px-French%2C_US_forces_continue_working_side_by_side.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="996" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Eurocopter_Tiger" title="Eurocopter Tiger">Eurocopter Tiger</a></figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Uniforms">Uniforms</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=French_Army&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Uniforms"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Military_uniform#France" title="Military uniform">Military uniform § France</a></div> <p>In the 1970s, France adopted a light beige dress uniform which is worn with coloured <a href="/wiki/Kepi" title="Kepi">kepis</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Sash" title="Sash">sashes</a>, fringed <a href="/wiki/Epaulette" title="Epaulette">epaulettes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fourrag%C3%A8re" title="Fourragère">fourragères</a> and other traditional items on appropriate occasions. The most commonly worn parade dress, however, consists of camouflage uniforms worn with the dress items noted above. The camouflage pattern, officially called <a href="/wiki/Camouflage_Central-Europe" title="Camouflage Central-Europe">Camouflage Centre Europe (CE)</a>, draws heavily on the colouration incorporated into the US <a href="/wiki/U.S._Woodland" title="U.S. Woodland">M81 woodland</a> pattern, but with a thicker and heavier striping. A desert version called the <a href="/wiki/Camouflage_Daguet" title="Camouflage Daguet">Camouflage Daguet</a> has been worn since the <a href="/wiki/Gulf_War" title="Gulf War">Gulf War</a> which consists of large irregular areas of chestnut brown and light grey on a sand khaki base. </p><p>The legionnaires of the <a href="/wiki/French_Foreign_Legion" title="French Foreign Legion">Foreign Legion</a> wear white kepis, blue sashes, and green and red epaulettes as dress uniform, while the <a href="/wiki/Troupes_de_marine" title="Troupes de marine">Troupes de marine</a> wear blue and red kepis and yellow epaulettes. The pioneers of the Foreign Legion wear the basic legionnaire uniform but with leather aprons and gloves. The <a href="/wiki/Chasseurs_Alpins" title="Chasseurs Alpins">Chasseurs Alpins</a> wear a large <a href="/wiki/Military_beret#France" title="Military beret">beret</a>, known as the "tarte" (the <i>pie</i>) with dark blue or white mountain outfits. The <a href="/wiki/Spahi" title="Spahi">Spahis</a> retain the long white cloak or "<a href="/wiki/Burnous" title="Burnous">burnous</a>" of the regiment's origin as North African cavalry. </p><p>The military cadets of <a href="/wiki/%C3%89cole_sp%C3%A9ciale_militaire_de_Saint-Cyr" title="École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr">Saint-Cyr</a> and the <a href="/wiki/%C3%89cole_Polytechnique" class="mw-redirect" title="École Polytechnique">École Polytechnique</a> retain their late 19th century dress uniforms.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGalliac201244_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGalliac201244-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A dark blue/black evening dress is authorized for officers<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGalliac201292–93_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGalliac201292–93-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and individual branches or regiments may parade bands or "fanfares" in historic dress dating as far back as the Napoleonic period. </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional center"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 230px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:ENSOA_Bastille_Day_2013_Paris_t110136.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Ceremonial parade for the commemoration of 8 May 1945"><img alt="Ceremonial parade for the commemoration of 8 May 1945" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/ENSOA_Bastille_Day_2013_Paris_t110136.jpg/200px-ENSOA_Bastille_Day_2013_Paris_t110136.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="160" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/ENSOA_Bastille_Day_2013_Paris_t110136.jpg/300px-ENSOA_Bastille_Day_2013_Paris_t110136.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/ENSOA_Bastille_Day_2013_Paris_t110136.jpg/400px-ENSOA_Bastille_Day_2013_Paris_t110136.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5000" data-file-height="4000" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Ceremonial parade for the commemoration of 8 May 1945</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; 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In 1992, as part of the " Armée 2000 " plan, the brigade became the 109th brigade régionale de défense (109th Regional Defence Brigade).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-43"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-43">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Original <a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a>: <i lang="fr">Maître de sa force, il respecte l'adversaire et veille à épargner les populations. Il obéit aux ordres, dans le respect des lois, des coutumes de la guerre et des conventions internationales. (...) 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London: <a href="/wiki/Jane%27s_Information_Group" class="mw-redirect" title="Jane's Information Group">Jane's Information Group</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7106-0341-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-7106-0341-X"><bdi>0-7106-0341-X</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Armies+of+NATO%27s+Central+Front&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Jane%27s+Information+Group&rft.date=1985&rft.isbn=0-7106-0341-X&rft.aulast=Isby&rft.aufirst=David+C.&rft.au=Kamps%2C+Charles+T.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFrench+Army" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPichichero2018" class="citation book cs1">Pichichero, Christy (2018). <i>The Military Enlightenment: War and Culture in the French Empire from Louis XIV to Napoleon</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Military+Enlightenment%3A+War+and+Culture+in+the+French+Empire+from+Louis+XIV+to+Napoleon&rft.date=2018&rft.aulast=Pichichero&rft.aufirst=Christy&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFrench+Army" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=French_Army&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBlaufarb2021" class="citation book cs1">Blaufarb, Rafe (2021). <i>The French army 1750–1820: Careers, talent, merit</i>. Manchester University Press.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+French+army+1750%E2%80%931820%3A+Careers%2C+talent%2C+merit&rft.pub=Manchester+University+Press&rft.date=2021&rft.aulast=Blaufarb&rft.aufirst=Rafe&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFrench+Army" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFClayton2013" class="citation book cs1">Clayton, Anthony (2013). <i>Paths of Glory: The French Army 1914</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Paths+of+Glory%3A+The+French+Army+1914&rft.date=2013&rft.aulast=Clayton&rft.aufirst=Anthony&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFrench+Army" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFElting1988" class="citation book cs1">Elting, John R. (1988). <i>Swords Around a Throne: Napoleon's Grande Armée</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Swords+Around+a+Throne%3A+Napoleon%27s+Grande+Arm%C3%A9e&rft.date=1988&rft.aulast=Elting&rft.aufirst=John+R.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFrench+Army" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHorne1984" class="citation book cs1">Horne, Alistair (1984). <i>The French Army and Politics: 1870–1970</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+French+Army+and+Politics%3A+1870%E2%80%931970&rft.date=1984&rft.aulast=Horne&rft.aufirst=Alistair&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFrench+Army" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLewis2002" class="citation magazine cs1">Lewis, J. A. C. (19 June 2002). "Going Pro: Special Report French Army". <i><a href="/wiki/Jane%27s_Defence_Weekly" title="Jane's Defence Weekly">Jane's Defence Weekly</a></i>. <a href="/wiki/Jane%27s_Information_Group" class="mw-redirect" title="Jane's Information Group">Jane's Information Group</a>. pp. 54–59.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Jane%27s+Defence+Weekly&rft.atitle=Going+Pro%3A+Special+Report+French+Army&rft.pages=54-59&rft.date=2002-06-19&rft.aulast=Lewis&rft.aufirst=J.+A.+C.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFrench+Army" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLynn1997" class="citation book cs1">Lynn, John A. (1997). <i>Giant of the Grand Siècle: The French Army, 1610–1715</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Giant+of+the+Grand+Si%C3%A8cle%3A+The+French+Army%2C+1610%E2%80%931715&rft.date=1997&rft.aulast=Lynn&rft.aufirst=John+A.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFrench+Army" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLynn1999" class="citation book cs1">Lynn, John A. (1999). <i>The Wars of Louis XIV</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Wars+of+Louis+XIV&rft.date=1999&rft.aulast=Lynn&rft.aufirst=John+A.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFrench+Army" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFNolan2008" class="citation book cs1">Nolan, Cathal (2008). <i>Wars of the Age of Louis XIV, 1650–1715: An Encyclopedia of Global Warfare and Civilization</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Wars+of+the+Age+of+Louis+XIV%2C+1650%E2%80%931715%3A+An+Encyclopedia+of+Global+Warfare+and+Civilization&rft.date=2008&rft.aulast=Nolan&rft.aufirst=Cathal&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFrench+Army" class="Z3988"></span> <span class="cs1-visible-error citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_book" title="Template:Cite book">cite book</a>}}</code>: </span><span class="cs1-visible-error citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">|work=</code> ignored (<a href="/wiki/Help:CS1_errors#periodical_ignored" title="Help:CS1 errors">help</a>)</span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFNolan2006" class="citation book cs1">Nolan, Cathal (2006). <i>The Age of Wars of Religion, 1000–1650</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Age+of+Wars+of+Religion%2C+1000%E2%80%931650&rft.date=2006&rft.aulast=Nolan&rft.aufirst=Cathal&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFrench+Army" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>Pengelley, Rupert. "French Army transforms to meet challenges of multirole future", <i>Jane's International Defence Review</i>, June 2006, 44–53</li> <li>Pichichero, Christy. <i>The Military Enlightenment: War and Culture in the French Empire from Louis XIV to Napoleon</i> (2018) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=51594">online review</a></li> <li>Porch, Douglas. <i>The March to the Marne: The French Army 1871–1914</i> (2003)</li> <li>Vernet, Jacques. <i>Le réarmement et la réorganisation de l'armée de Terre française, 1943–1946</i> (Service historique de l'armée de Terre, 1980).</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=French_Army&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #aaa;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);display:flow-root}.mw-parser-output .side-box-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{padding:0.25em 0.9em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-image{padding:2px 0 2px 0.9em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-imageright{padding:2px 0.9em 2px 0;text-align:center}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .side-box-flex{display:flex;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{flex:1;min-width:0}}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .side-box{width:238px}.mw-parser-output .side-box-right{clear:right;float:right;margin-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-left{margin-right:1em}}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237033735">@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox{display:none!important}}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox img[src*="Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg"]{background-color:white}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox img[src*="Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg"]{background-color:white}}</style><div class="side-box side-box-right plainlinks sistersitebox"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-image"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/30px-Commons-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="30" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/45px-Commons-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/59px-Commons-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="1376" /></span></span></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist">Wikimedia Commons has media related to <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:French_Army" class="extiw" title="commons:Category:French Army">French Army</a></span>.</div></div> </div> <ul><li><span class="languageicon">(In French)</span> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.defense.gouv.fr/terre">Official website</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.carlisle.army.mil/usawc/Parameters/00summer/bloch.htm">French Military Reform: Lessons for America's Army?</a>, George A. 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style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Cold_War_(1945–1991)" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War">Cold War</a> (1945–1991)</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Infantry</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2nd_Infantry_Division_(France)" title="2nd Infantry Division (France)">2nd Motorized</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=4th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="4th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">4th Motorized</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=9th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="9th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">9th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/9th_Light_Armoured_Marine_Brigade_(France)" class="mw-redirect" title="9th Light Armoured Marine Brigade (France)">9th Marine</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=11th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="11th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">11th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/12th_Infantry_Division_(France)" title="12th Infantry Division (France)">12th</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=13th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="13th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">13th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/14th_Infantry_Division_(France)" title="14th Infantry Division (France)">14th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/15th_Infantry_Division_(France)" title="15th Infantry Division (France)">15th</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=19th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="19th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">19th</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=20th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="20th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">20th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/21st_Infantry_Division_(France)" title="21st Infantry Division (France)">21st</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/27th_Mountain_Infantry_Brigade_(France)" title="27th Mountain Infantry Brigade (France)">27th Alpine</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=29th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="29th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">29th</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=109th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="109th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">109th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/152nd_Infantry_Division_(France)" title="152nd Infantry Division (France)">152nd</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Armored</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1st_Armored_Division_(France)" title="1st Armored Division (France)">1st</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2nd_Armored_Division_(France)" title="2nd Armored Division (France)">2nd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/3rd_Armored_Division_(France)" title="3rd Armored Division (France)">3rd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/4th_Armoured_Division_(France,_1967)" title="4th Armoured Division (France, 1967)">4th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/5th_Armored_Division_(France)" title="5th Armored Division (France)">5th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/6th_Armoured_Division_(France)" title="6th Armoured Division (France)">6th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/7th_Armoured_Division_(France)" title="7th Armoured Division (France)">7th</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=8th_Armoured_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="8th Armoured Division (France) (page does not exist)">8th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/10th_Armoured_Division_(France)" title="10th Armoured Division (France)">10th</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Light Armored</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/6th_Light_Armoured_Brigade_(France)" title="6th Light Armoured Brigade (France)">6th</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=12th_Light_Armoured_Division&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="12th Light Armoured Division (page does not exist)">12th</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=14th_Light_Armoured_Division&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="14th Light Armoured Division (page does not exist)">14th</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Airborne</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=4th_Airmobile_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="4th Airmobile Division (France) (page does not exist)">4th Airmobile</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/10th_Parachute_Division_(France)" title="10th Parachute Division (France)">10th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/11th_Parachute_Brigade_(France)" title="11th Parachute Brigade (France)">11th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/11th_Light_Intervention_Division_(France)" class="mw-redirect" title="11th Light Intervention Division (France)">Light Intervention</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/24th_Airborne_Division_(France)" title="24th Airborne Division (France)">24th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/25th_Parachute_Division_(France)" title="25th Parachute Division (France)">25th</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Division_Daguet" title="Division Daguet">Division Daguet</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="World_War_II_(1939–1945)_(list)" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> (1939–1945) (<a href="/wiki/List_of_French_divisions_in_World_War_II" title="List of French divisions in World War II">list</a>)</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1939–1940</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Tank</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Armoured" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Armoured</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1st_Armoured_Division_(France,_1940)" title="1st Armoured Division (France, 1940)">1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2nd_Armoured_Division_(France,_1940)" title="2nd Armoured Division (France, 1940)">2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/3rd_Armoured_Division_(France,_1940)" title="3rd Armoured Division (France, 1940)">3</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/4th_Armored_Division_(France,_1940)" title="4th Armored Division (France, 1940)">4</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Light Mechanized</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1st_Light_Mechanized_Division_(France)" title="1st Light Mechanized Division (France)">1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2nd_Light_Mechanized_Division_(France)" title="2nd Light Mechanized Division (France)">2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/3rd_Light_Mechanized_Division_(France)" title="3rd Light Mechanized Division (France)">3</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=4th_Light_Mechanized_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="4th Light Mechanized Division (France) (page does not exist)">4</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=7th_Light_Mechanized_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="7th Light Mechanized Division (France) (page does not exist)">7</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Cavalry</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1st_Light_Cavalry_Division_(France)" title="1st Light Cavalry Division (France)">1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2nd_Light_Cavalry_Division_(France)" title="2nd Light Cavalry Division (France)">2</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=3rd_Light_Cavalry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="3rd Light Cavalry Division (France) (page does not exist)">3</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/4th_Light_Cavalry_Division_(France)" title="4th Light Cavalry Division (France)">4</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/5th_Light_Cavalry_Division_(France)" title="5th Light Cavalry Division (France)">5</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=6th_Light_Cavalry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="6th Light Cavalry Division (France) (page does not exist)">6</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Colonial</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Colonial" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Colonial</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1st_Colonial_Infantry_Division_(France)" title="1st Colonial Infantry Division (France)">1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2nd_Colonial_Infantry_Division" class="mw-redirect" title="2nd Colonial Infantry Division">2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/3rd_Colonial_Infantry_Division_(France)" title="3rd Colonial Infantry Division (France)">3</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=4th_Colonial_Infantry_Division&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="4th Colonial Infantry Division (page does not exist)">4</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=5th_Colonial_Infantry_Division&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="5th Colonial Infantry Division (page does not exist)">5</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=6th_Colonial_Infantry_Division&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="6th Colonial Infantry Division (page does not exist)">6</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=7th_Colonial_Infantry_Division&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="7th Colonial Infantry Division (page does not exist)">7</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=8th_Colonial_Infantry_Division&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="8th Colonial Infantry Division (page does not exist)">8</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Moroccan</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1st_Moroccan_Division_(1939)" title="1st Moroccan Division (1939)">1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2nd_Moroccan_Division" title="2nd Moroccan Division">2</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=3rd_Moroccan_Division&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="3rd Moroccan Division (page does not exist)">3</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">North African</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1st_North_African_Infantry_Division&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1st North African Infantry Division (page does not exist)">1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2nd_North_African_Infantry_Division" title="2nd North African Infantry Division">2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/3rd_North_African_Infantry_Division" title="3rd North African Infantry Division">3</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/4th_North_African_Infantry_Division" title="4th North African Infantry Division">4</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/5th_North_African_Infantry_Division" title="5th North African Infantry Division">5</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=6th_North_African_Infantry_Division&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="6th North African Infantry Division (page does not exist)">6</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/7th_North_African_Infantry_Division" title="7th North African Infantry Division">7</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Indochina</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cochinchina_and_Cambodia_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cochinchina and Cambodia Division (France) (page does not exist)">Cochinchina and Cambodia</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tonkin_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tonkin Division (France) (page does not exist)">Tonkin</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Infantry</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="1st_–_9th" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1st – 9th</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1st_Motorised_Infantry_Division_(France)" title="1st Motorised Infantry Division (France)">1st Motorized</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2nd_Infantry_Division_(France)" title="2nd Infantry Division (France)">2</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=3rd_Motorized_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="3rd Motorized Division (France) (page does not exist)">3rd Motorized</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=4th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="4th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">4</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/5th_Motorized_Division_(France)" title="5th Motorized Division (France)">5th Motorized</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=6th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="6th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">6</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=7th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="7th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">7</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/8th_Infantry_Division_(France)" title="8th Infantry Division (France)">8</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/9th_Motorized_Division_(France)" class="mw-redirect" title="9th Motorized Division (France)">9th Motorized</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">10th – 19th</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/10th_Infantry_Division_(France)" title="10th Infantry Division (France)">10</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=11th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="11th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">11</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/12th_Motorized_Division_(France)" class="mw-redirect" title="12th Motorized Division (France)">12th Motorized</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=13th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="13th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">13</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/14th_Infantry_Division_(France)" title="14th Infantry Division (France)">14</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/15th_Motorized_Infantry_Division_(France)" class="mw-redirect" title="15th Motorized Infantry Division (France)">15th Motorized</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=16th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="16th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">16</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=17th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="17th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">17</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/18th_Infantry_Division_(France)" title="18th Infantry Division (France)">18</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=19th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="19th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">19</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">20th – 29th</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=20th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="20th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">20</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/21st_Infantry_Division_(France)" title="21st Infantry Division (France)">21</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/22nd_Infantry_Division_(France)" title="22nd Infantry Division (France)">22</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=23rd_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="23rd Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">23</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=24th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="24th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">24</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/25th_Motorized_Division_(France)" title="25th Motorized Division (France)">25th Motorized</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=26th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="26th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">26</a></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Mountain" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Mountain</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/27th_Mountain_Infantry_Brigade_(France)" title="27th Mountain Infantry Brigade (France)">27</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=28th_Mountain_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="28th Mountain Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">28</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=29th_Mountain_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="29th Mountain Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">29</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">30th – 39th</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Mountain" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Mountain</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=30th_Mountain_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="30th Mountain Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">30</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=31st_Mountain_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="31st Mountain Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">31</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/32nd_Infantry_Division_(France)" title="32nd Infantry Division (France)">32</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=35th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="35th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">35</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=36th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="36th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">36</a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">40th – 49th</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=40th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="40th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">40</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/41st_Infantry_Division_(France)" title="41st Infantry Division (France)">41</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=42nd_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="42nd Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">42</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=43rd_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="43rd Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">43</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=44th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="44th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">44</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=45th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="45th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">45</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=47th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="47th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">47</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">50th – 59th</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=51st_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="51st Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">51</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=52nd_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="52nd Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">52</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/53rd_Infantry_Division_(France)" title="53rd Infantry Division (France)">53</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=54th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="54th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">54</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/55th_Infantry_Division_(France)" title="55th Infantry Division (France)">55</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=56th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="56th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">56</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/57th_Infantry_Division_(France)" title="57th Infantry Division (France)">57</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=58th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="58th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">58</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=59th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="59th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">59</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">60th – 69th</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/60th_Infantry_Division_(France)" title="60th Infantry Division (France)">60</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/61st_Infantry_Division_(France)" title="61st Infantry Division (France)">61</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=62nd_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="62nd Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">62</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=63rd_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="63rd Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">63</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=67th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="67th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">67</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/68th_Infantry_Division_(France)" title="68th Infantry Division (France)">68</a></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Mountain" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Mountain</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=64th_Mountain_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="64th Mountain Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">64</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=65th_Mountain_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="65th Mountain Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">65</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=66th_Mountain_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="66th Mountain Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">66</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">70th – 89th</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=70th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="70th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">70</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/71st_Infantry_Division_(France)" title="71st Infantry Division (France)">71</a></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="African" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">African</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=81st_African_Infantry_Division&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="81st African Infantry Division (page does not exist)">81</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=82nd_African_Infantry_Division&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="82nd African Infantry Division (page does not exist)">82</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=83rd_African_Infantry_Division&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="83rd African Infantry Division (page does not exist)">83</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=84th_African_Infantry_Division&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="84th African Infantry Division (page does not exist)">84</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=85th_African_Infantry_Division&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="85th African Infantry Division (page does not exist)">85</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=86th_African_Infantry_Division&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="86th African Infantry Division (page does not exist)">86</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/87th_African_Infantry_Division" title="87th African Infantry Division">87</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=88th_African_Infantry_Division&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="88th African Infantry Division (page does not exist)">88</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">100th – 199th</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Fortress" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Fortress</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=101st_Fortress_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="101st Fortress Division (France) (page does not exist)">101</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/102nd_Fortress_Division_(France)" title="102nd Fortress Division (France)">102</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=103rd_Fortress_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="103rd Fortress Division (France) (page does not exist)">103</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=104th_Fortress_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="104th Fortress Division (France) (page does not exist)">104</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=105th_Fortress_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="105th Fortress Division (France) (page does not exist)">105</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">African</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=180th_African_Infantry_Division&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="180th African Infantry Division (page does not exist)">180</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=181st_African_Infantry_Division&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="181st African Infantry Division (page does not exist)">181</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=182nd_African_Infantry_Division&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="182nd African Infantry Division (page does not exist)">182</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/183rd_African_Infantry_Division" class="mw-redirect" title="183rd African Infantry Division">183</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=191st_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="191st Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">191</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/192nd_Infantry_Division_(France)" class="mw-redirect" title="192nd Infantry Division (France)">192</a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Light Division of Infantry</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <li><a href="/wiki/1st_Motorised_Infantry_Division_(France)" title="1st Motorised Infantry Division (France)">1st Motorized</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=3rd_Light_Division_of_Infantry_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="3rd Light Division of Infantry (France) (page does not exist)">3</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=17th_Light_Division_of_Infantry_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="17th Light Division of Infantry (France) (page does not exist)">17</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/32nd_Infantry_Division_(France)" title="32nd Infantry Division (France)">32</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=43rd_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="43rd Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">43</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=59th_Light_Division_of_Infantry_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="59th Light Division of Infantry (France) (page does not exist)">59</a></li> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="235th_–_241st" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">235th – 241st</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=235th_Light_Division_of_Infantry_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="235th Light Division of Infantry (France) (page does not exist)">235</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=236th_Light_Division_of_Infantry_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="236th Light Division of Infantry (France) (page does not exist)">236</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=237th_Light_Division_of_Infantry_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="237th Light Division of Infantry (France) (page does not exist)">237</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=238th_Light_Division_of_Infantry_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="238th Light Division of Infantry (France) (page does not exist)">238</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=239th_Light_Division_of_Infantry_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="239th Light Division of Infantry (France) (page does not exist)">239</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=240th_Light_Division_of_Infantry_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="240th Light Division of Infantry (France) (page does not exist)">240</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=241st_Light_Division_of_Infantry_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="241st Light Division of Infantry (France) (page does not exist)">241</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Light_Division_Burtaire&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Light Division Burtaire (page does not exist)">Burtaire</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1st_Light_Division_of_North_African_Infantry&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1st Light Division of North African Infantry (page does not exist)">1st North African</a></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Colonial</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=2nd_Light_Division_of_Colonial_Infantry&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="2nd Light Division of Colonial Infantry (page does not exist)">2</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=8th_Light_Division_of_Colonial_Infantry&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="8th Light Division of Colonial Infantry (page does not exist)">8</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Chasseurs</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1st_Light_Division_of_Chasseurs_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1st Light Division of Chasseurs (France) (page does not exist)">1</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=2nd_Light_Division_of_Chasseurs_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="2nd Light Division of Chasseurs (France) (page does not exist)">2</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">March</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Besse_March_Division&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Besse March Division (page does not exist)">Besse</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chastanet_March_Division&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Chastanet March Division (page does not exist)">Chastanet</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Poisot_March_Division&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Poisot March Division (page does not exist)">Poisot</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Regard_March_Division&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Regard March Division (page does not exist)">Regard</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Senselme_March_Division&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Senselme March Division (page does not exist)">Senselme</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Polish</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1st_Grenadiers_Division_(Poland)" class="mw-redirect" title="1st Grenadiers Division (Poland)">1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2nd_Rifle_Division_(Poland)" title="2nd Rifle Division (Poland)">2</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Vichy_France" title="Vichy France">Vichy France</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Metropolitan</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/7th_Military_Division_(Vichy_France)" title="7th Military Division (Vichy France)">7</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=9th_Military_Division_(Vichy_France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="9th Military Division (Vichy France) (page does not exist)">9</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=12th_Military_Division_(Vichy_France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="12th Military Division (Vichy France) (page does not exist)">12</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=13th_Military_Division_(Vichy_France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="13th Military Division (Vichy France) (page does not exist)">13</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/14th_Military_Division_(Vichy_France)" title="14th Military Division (Vichy France)">14</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/15th_Military_Division_(Vichy_France)" title="15th Military Division (Vichy France)">15</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=16th_Military_Division_(Vichy_France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="16th Military Division (Vichy France) (page does not exist)">16</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=17th_Military_Division_(Vichy_France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="17th Military Division (Vichy France) (page does not exist)">17</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Africa and Asia</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Algiers_Territorial_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Algiers Territorial Division (France) (page does not exist)">Algiers Territorial</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Casablanca_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Casablanca Division (France) (page does not exist)">Casablanca</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cochinchina_and_Cambodia_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cochinchina and Cambodia Division (France) (page does not exist)">Cochinchina and Cambodia</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Constantine_Territorial_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Constantine Territorial Division (France) (page does not exist)">Constantine Territorial</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fez_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Fez Division (France) (page does not exist)">Fez</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marrakech_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Marrakech Division (France) (page does not exist)">Marrakech</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Meknes_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Meknes Division (France) (page does not exist)">Meknes</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oran_Territorial_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Oran Territorial Division (France) (page does not exist)">Oran Territorial</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tunisian_Forces_Command_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tunisian Forces Command (France) (page does not exist)">Tunisian Forces Command</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tonkin_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tonkin Division (France) (page does not exist)">Tonkin</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/33rd_Waffen_Grenadier_Division_of_the_SS_Charlemagne_(1st_French)" class="mw-redirect" title="33rd Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS Charlemagne (1st French)">33rd Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS Charlemagne (1st French)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Free_France" title="Free France">Free France</a>/<br /> <a href="/wiki/Army_of_Liberation_(France)" class="mw-redirect" title="Army of Liberation (France)">Army of Liberation</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Infantry</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1st_Free_French_Division" title="1st Free French Division">1st Free French Division</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1st_Infantry_Division_(France)" title="1st Infantry Division (France)">1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2nd_Moroccan_Infantry_Division" title="2nd Moroccan Infantry Division">2 (Moroccan)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/3rd_Algerian_Infantry_Division" title="3rd Algerian Infantry Division">3 (Algerian)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/4th_Moroccan_Mountain_Division" title="4th Moroccan Mountain Division">4 (Moroccan Mountain)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=6th_Moroccan_Mountain_Division&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="6th Moroccan Mountain Division (page does not exist)">6 (Moroccan Mountain)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=7th_Algerian_Infantry_Division&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="7th Algerian Infantry Division (page does not exist)">7 (Algerian)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/9th_Colonial_Infantry_Division" title="9th Colonial Infantry Division">9 (Colonial)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=10th_Colonial_Infantry_Division&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="10th Colonial Infantry Division (page does not exist)">10 (Colonial)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/10th_Infantry_Division_(France)" title="10th Infantry Division (France)">10</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/14th_Infantry_Division_(France)" title="14th Infantry Division (France)">14</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=19th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="19th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">19</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=23rd_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="23rd Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">23</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/25th_Infantry_Division_(France)" class="mw-redirect" title="25th Infantry Division (France)">25</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/27th_Mountain_Infantry_Brigade_(France)" title="27th Mountain Infantry Brigade (France)">27 (Alpine)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=36th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="36th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">36</a></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Far_East_Colonial" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Far East Colonial</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1st_Far_East_Colonial_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1st Far East Colonial Division (France) (page does not exist)">1</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=2nd_Far_East_Colonial_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="2nd Far East Colonial Division (France) (page does not exist)">2</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Armour</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1st_Armored_Division_(France)" title="1st Armored Division (France)">1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2nd_Armored_Division_(France)" title="2nd Armored Division (France)">2</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=3rd_Armored_Division_(France,_1943%E2%80%931946)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="3rd Armored Division (France, 1943–1946) (page does not exist)">3</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/5th_Armored_Division_(France)" title="5th Armored Division (France)">5</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Temporary</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Constantine_March_Division&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Constantine March Division (page does not exist)">Constantine March</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Algerian_March_Division&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Algerian March Division (page does not exist)">Algerian March</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oran_March_Division&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Oran March Division (page does not exist)">Oran March</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Morocco_March_Division&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Morocco March Division (page does not exist)">Morocco March</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Southeast_Algerian_Front_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Southeast Algerian Front (France) (page does not exist)">Southeast Algerian Front</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="World_War_I_(1914–1918)_(list)" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a> (1914–1918) (<a href="/wiki/List_of_French_divisions_in_World_War_I" title="List of French divisions in World War I">list</a>)</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Infantry</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="1st_–_9th" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1st – 9th</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1st_Infantry_Division_(France)" title="1st Infantry Division (France)">1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2nd_Infantry_Division_(France)" title="2nd Infantry Division (France)">2</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=3rd_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="3rd Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">3</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=4th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="4th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">4</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=5th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="5th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">5</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=6th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="6th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">6</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=7th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="7th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">7</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/8th_Infantry_Division_(France)" title="8th Infantry Division (France)">8</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=9th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="9th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">9</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">10th – 19th</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/10th_Infantry_Division_(France)" title="10th Infantry Division (France)">10</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=11th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="11th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">11</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/12th_Infantry_Division_(France)" title="12th Infantry Division (France)">12</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=13th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="13th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">13</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/14th_Infantry_Division_(France)" title="14th Infantry Division (France)">14</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/15th_Infantry_Division_(France)" title="15th Infantry Division (France)">15</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=16th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="16th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">16</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=17th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="17th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">17</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/18th_Infantry_Division_(France)" title="18th Infantry Division (France)">18</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=19th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="19th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">19</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">20th – 29th</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=20th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="20th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">20</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/21st_Infantry_Division_(France)" title="21st Infantry Division (France)">21</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/22nd_Infantry_Division_(France)" title="22nd Infantry Division (France)">22</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=23rd_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="23rd Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">23</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=24th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="24th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">24</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/25th_Infantry_Division_(France)" class="mw-redirect" title="25th Infantry Division (France)">25</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=26th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="26th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">26</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=27th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="27th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">27</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=28th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="28th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">28</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=29th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="29th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">29</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">30th – 39th</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=30th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="30th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">30</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=31st_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="31st Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">31</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/32nd_Infantry_Division_(France)" title="32nd Infantry Division (France)">32</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/33rd_Infantry_Division_(France)" title="33rd Infantry Division (France)">33</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=34th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="34th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">34</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=35th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="35th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">35</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=36th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="36th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">36</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/37th_Infantry_Division_(France)" title="37th Infantry Division (France)">37</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=38th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="38th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">38</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=39th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="39th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">39</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">40th – 49th</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=40th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="40th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">40</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/41st_Infantry_Division_(France)" title="41st Infantry Division (France)">41</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=42nd_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="42nd Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">42</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=43rd_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="43rd Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">43</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=44th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="44th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">44</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=45th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="45th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">45</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=46th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="46th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">46</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=47th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="47th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">47</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=48th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="48th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">48</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=49th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="49th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">49</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">50th – 59th</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=50th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="50th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">50</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=51st_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="51st Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">51</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=52nd_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="52nd Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">52</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/53rd_Infantry_Division_(France)" title="53rd Infantry Division (France)">53</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=54th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="54th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">54</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/55th_Infantry_Division_(France)" title="55th Infantry Division (France)">55</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=56th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="56th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">56</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/57th_Infantry_Division_(France)" title="57th Infantry Division (France)">57</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=58th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="58th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">58</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=59th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="59th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">59</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">60th – 69th</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/60th_Infantry_Division_(France)" title="60th Infantry Division (France)">60</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/61st_Infantry_Division_(France)" title="61st Infantry Division (France)">61</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=62nd_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="62nd Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">62</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=63rd_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="63rd Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">63</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=64th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="64th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">64</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=65th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="65th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">65</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=66th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="66th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">66</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=67th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="67th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">67</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/68th_Infantry_Division_(France)" title="68th Infantry Division (France)">68</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=69th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="69th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">69</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">70th – 79th</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=70th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="70th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">70</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/71st_Infantry_Division_(France)" title="71st Infantry Division (France)">71</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/72nd_Infantry_Division_(France)" title="72nd Infantry Division (France)">72</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=73rd_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="73rd Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">73</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=74th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="74th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">74</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=75th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="75th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">75</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=76th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="76th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">76</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=77th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="77th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">77</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">80th – 99th</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=81st_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="81st Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">81</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=87th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="87th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">87</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=88th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="88th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">88</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=97th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="97th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">97</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Territorial Infantry</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="81st_–_89th" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">81st – 89th</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=81st_Territorial_Infantry_Division&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="81st Territorial Infantry Division (page does not exist)">81</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=82nd_Territorial_Infantry_Division&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="82nd Territorial Infantry Division (page does not exist)">82</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=83rd_Territorial_Infantry_Division&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="83rd Territorial Infantry Division (page does not exist)">83</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=84th_Territorial_Infantry_Division&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="84th Territorial Infantry Division (page does not exist)">84</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=85th_Territorial_Infantry_Division&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="85th Territorial Infantry Division (page does not exist)">85</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=86th_Territorial_Infantry_Division&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="86th Territorial Infantry Division (page does not exist)">86</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=87th_Territorial_Infantry_Division&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="87th Territorial Infantry Division (page does not exist)">87</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=88th_Territorial_Infantry_Division&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="88th Territorial Infantry Division (page does not exist)">88</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=89th_Territorial_Infantry_Division&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="89th Territorial Infantry Division (page does not exist)">89</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">90th – 99th</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=90th_Territorial_Infantry_Division&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="90th Territorial Infantry Division (page does not exist)">90</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=91st_Territorial_Infantry_Division&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="91st Territorial Infantry Division (page does not exist)">91</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=92nd_Territorial_Infantry_Division&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="92nd Territorial Infantry Division (page does not exist)">92</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=94th_Territorial_Infantry_Division&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="94th Territorial Infantry Division (page does not exist)">94</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=96th_Territorial_Infantry_Division&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="96th Territorial Infantry Division (page does not exist)">96</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=97th_Territorial_Infantry_Division&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="97th Territorial Infantry Division (page does not exist)">97</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=99th_Territorial_Infantry_Division&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="99th Territorial Infantry Division (page does not exist)">99</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">100th – 105th</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=100th_Territorial_Infantry_Division&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="100th Territorial Infantry Division (page does not exist)">100</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/101st_Infantry_Division_(France)" title="101st Infantry Division (France)">101</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/102nd_Fortress_Division_(France)" title="102nd Fortress Division (France)">102</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=103th_Territorial_Infantry_Division&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="103th Territorial Infantry Division (page does not exist)">103</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=104th_Territorial_Infantry_Division&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="104th Territorial Infantry Division (page does not exist)">104</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=105th_Territorial_Infantry_Division&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="105th Territorial Infantry Division (page does not exist)">105</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">120th – 129th</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=120th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="120th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">120</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=121st_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="121st Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">121</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/122nd_Infantry_Division_(France)" title="122nd Infantry Division (France)">122</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=123rd_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="123rd Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">123</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=125th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="125th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">125</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=126th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="126th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">126</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=127th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="127th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">127</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=128th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="128th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">128</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=129th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="129th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">129</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">130th – 149th</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=132nd_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="132nd Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">132</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=133rd_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="133rd Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">133</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=134th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="134th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">134</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">150th – 159th</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=151st_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="151st Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">151</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/152nd_Infantry_Division_(France)" title="152nd Infantry Division (France)">152</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=153rd_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="153rd Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">153</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=154th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="154th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">154</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=155th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="155th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">155</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/156th_Infantry_Division_(France)" title="156th Infantry Division (France)">156</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/157th_Infantry_Division_(France)" title="157th Infantry Division (France)">157</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=158th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="158th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">158</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">160th – 170th</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=161st_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="161st Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">161</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=162nd_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="162nd Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">162</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=163rd_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="163rd Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">163</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=164th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="164th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">164</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=165th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="165th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">165</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=166th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="166th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">166</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=167th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="167th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">167</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=168th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="168th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">168</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=169th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="169th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">169</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=170th_Infantry_Division_(France)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="170th Infantry Division (France) (page does not exist)">170</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" 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data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Croatian_Army" title="Croatian Army">Croatian Army</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Czech_Republic" title="Czech Republic"><img alt="Czech Republic" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Flag_of_the_Czech_Republic.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Czech_Republic.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Flag_of_the_Czech_Republic.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Czech_Republic.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Flag_of_the_Czech_Republic.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_Czech_Republic.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Czech_Land_Forces" title="Czech Land Forces">Czech Land Forces</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Denmark" title="Denmark"><img alt="Denmark" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/20px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/31px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/40px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="387" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Royal_Danish_Army" title="Royal Danish Army">Royal Danish Army</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Estonia" title="Estonia"><img alt="Estonia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Flag_of_Estonia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Estonia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Flag_of_Estonia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Estonia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Flag_of_Estonia.svg/46px-Flag_of_Estonia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="990" data-file-height="630" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Estonian_Land_Forces" title="Estonian Land Forces">Estonian Land Forces</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Finland" title="Finland"><img alt="Finland" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Flag_of_Finland.svg/23px-Flag_of_Finland.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Flag_of_Finland.svg/35px-Flag_of_Finland.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Flag_of_Finland.svg/46px-Flag_of_Finland.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1800" data-file-height="1100" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Finnish_Army" title="Finnish Army">Finnish Army</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/France" title="France"><img alt="France" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/23px-Flag_of_France.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/35px-Flag_of_France.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/45px-Flag_of_France.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a class="mw-selflink selflink">French Army</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany"><img alt="Germany" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/23px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/35px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/46px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/German_Army" title="German Army">German Army</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Greece" title="Greece"><img alt="Greece" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Greece.svg/23px-Flag_of_Greece.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Greece.svg/35px-Flag_of_Greece.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Greece.svg/45px-Flag_of_Greece.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="400" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Hellenic_Army" title="Hellenic Army">Hellenic Army</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Hungary" title="Hungary"><img alt="Hungary" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Flag_of_Hungary.svg/23px-Flag_of_Hungary.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Flag_of_Hungary.svg/35px-Flag_of_Hungary.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Flag_of_Hungary.svg/46px-Flag_of_Hungary.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Hungarian_Ground_Forces" title="Hungarian Ground Forces">Hungarian Ground Forces</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Iceland" title="Iceland"><img alt="Iceland" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Flag_of_Iceland.svg/21px-Flag_of_Iceland.svg.png" decoding="async" width="21" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Flag_of_Iceland.svg/32px-Flag_of_Iceland.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Flag_of_Iceland.svg/42px-Flag_of_Iceland.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1250" data-file-height="900" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Iceland_Crisis_Response_Unit" title="Iceland Crisis Response Unit">Iceland Crisis Response Unit</a></span></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy"><img alt="Italy" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/23px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/35px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/45px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="1000" /></a></span></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Italian_Army" title="Italian Army">Italian Army</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Carabinieri" title="Carabinieri">Carabinieri</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Latvia" title="Latvia"><img alt="Latvia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Flag_of_Latvia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Latvia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Flag_of_Latvia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Latvia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Flag_of_Latvia.svg/46px-Flag_of_Latvia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Latvian_Land_Forces" title="Latvian Land Forces">Latvian Land Forces</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Lithuania" title="Lithuania"><img alt="Lithuania" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Flag_of_Lithuania.svg/23px-Flag_of_Lithuania.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Flag_of_Lithuania.svg/35px-Flag_of_Lithuania.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Flag_of_Lithuania.svg/46px-Flag_of_Lithuania.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Lithuanian_Land_Force" class="mw-redirect" title="Lithuanian Land Force">Lithuanian Land Force</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Luxembourg" title="Luxembourg"><img alt="Luxembourg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Flag_of_Luxembourg.svg/23px-Flag_of_Luxembourg.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Flag_of_Luxembourg.svg/35px-Flag_of_Luxembourg.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Flag_of_Luxembourg.svg/46px-Flag_of_Luxembourg.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="307" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Luxembourg_Army" class="mw-redirect" title="Luxembourg Army">Luxembourg Army</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Montenegro" title="Montenegro"><img alt="Montenegro" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Flag_of_Montenegro.svg/23px-Flag_of_Montenegro.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Flag_of_Montenegro.svg/35px-Flag_of_Montenegro.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Flag_of_Montenegro.svg/46px-Flag_of_Montenegro.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Montenegrin_Ground_Army" title="Montenegrin Ground Army">Montenegrin Ground Army</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Netherlands" title="Netherlands"><img alt="Netherlands" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Royal_Netherlands_Army" title="Royal Netherlands Army">Royal Netherlands Army</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/North_Macedonia" title="North Macedonia"><img alt="North Macedonia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Flag_of_North_Macedonia.svg/23px-Flag_of_North_Macedonia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Flag_of_North_Macedonia.svg/35px-Flag_of_North_Macedonia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Flag_of_North_Macedonia.svg/46px-Flag_of_North_Macedonia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Army_of_North_Macedonia" title="Army of North Macedonia">Army of North Macedonia</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Norway" title="Norway"><img alt="Norway" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/21px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png" decoding="async" width="21" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/32px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/41px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="372" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Norwegian_Army" title="Norwegian Army">Norwegian Army</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Poland" title="Poland"><img alt="Poland" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/23px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/35px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/46px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="800" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Polish_Land_Forces" title="Polish Land Forces">Polish Land Forces</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Portugal" title="Portugal"><img alt="Portugal" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Portugal.svg/23px-Flag_of_Portugal.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Portugal.svg/35px-Flag_of_Portugal.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Portugal.svg/45px-Flag_of_Portugal.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="400" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Portuguese_Army" title="Portuguese Army">Portuguese Army</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Romania" title="Romania"><img alt="Romania" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/23px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/35px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/45px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="400" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Romanian_Land_Forces" title="Romanian Land Forces">Romanian Land Forces</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Slovakia" title="Slovakia"><img alt="Slovakia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Flag_of_Slovakia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Slovakia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Flag_of_Slovakia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Slovakia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Flag_of_Slovakia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Slovakia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Ground_Forces_of_the_Slovak_Republic" title="Ground Forces of the Slovak Republic">Ground Forces of the Slovak Republic</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Slovenia" title="Slovenia"><img alt="Slovenia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Flag_of_Slovenia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Slovenia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Flag_of_Slovenia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Slovenia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Flag_of_Slovenia.svg/46px-Flag_of_Slovenia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Slovenian_Ground_Force" title="Slovenian Ground Force">Slovenian Ground Force</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain"><img alt="Spain" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/23px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/35px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/45px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="500" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Army" title="Spanish Army">Spanish Army</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Sweden" title="Sweden"><img alt="Sweden" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4c/Flag_of_Sweden.svg/23px-Flag_of_Sweden.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4c/Flag_of_Sweden.svg/35px-Flag_of_Sweden.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4c/Flag_of_Sweden.svg/46px-Flag_of_Sweden.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1000" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Swedish_Army" title="Swedish Army">Swedish 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