French overseas operations: 50 years of engagement

Sangaris, Serval, Chammal, Barkhane... Regular media coverage in recent years has meant that these names have become familiar to French people. Overseas operations occupy an important place in current affairs, sadly all too often when a member of the armed forces is killed in action. From the decisi...

While overseas operations may have a regular place in the current affairs of the Ministry of the Armed Forces today, this does not make them any less an object of history and therefore an object of study. As France sees an exceptional operational commitment, 2017 is the time to put that military inv...

A subject of history, overseas operations are - like the remembrance of earlier conflicts such as the two world wars - becoming an increasingly important part of passing on the memory of those who took part in them, particularly to the young. A living memorial, the servicemen and women deployed on o...