Striking Back
Credit: ECPAD/French Defense Ministry
For Operation Serval, the French military action to rid Mali of Islamist insurgents, Paris has sent 3,500 troops and 20 combat helicopters to its former West African colony—more of either than France has deployed in 10 years of military involvement in Afghanistan. Another 870 men and their equipment...
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