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France to conduct biggest ever war games in 2023

by Agence France-Presse
November 15, 2022
in Army News
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NATO troops face chill of combat in Arctic exercises

French soldiers with the 1st Infantry Regiment fire their mortars near Rena, Norway during Exercise Brilliant Jump 2022. The long-planned exercise in Norway aimed to train the very high-readiness component of the NATO Response Force. The land part of the exercise involved around 2,500 troops from France, Italy, Norway, Poland and Spain. These forces were supported at sea by 10 warships and 750 sailors from seven NATO nations. Brilliant Jump 2022 ran from 28 February until 17 March.

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France is planning its biggest ever military exercise involving 12,000 troops, including NATO allies, in the first half of next year, a commander at the chiefs of staff said Tuesday.

The scenario calls for a major conflict with an unspecified foreign state to be played out, said Yves Metayer, commander of the troop deployment division at the French chiefs of staff.

The exercise will come against the background of Russia’s war in Ukraine launched in February this year.

“The geopolitical context justifies this exercise,” Metayer said, adding however that the war games plan had been in the works since 2020 and followed on from a French strategic review published in 2017.

The review pointed to “a need to prepare for a major conflict”, after two decades of mostly asymmetrical warfare with non-state actors, such as jihadists, he said.

“After the fall of the Berlin Wall, we allowed the mobilization mechanisms we had during the Cold War to decline,” he added.

The wargames, called Orion will involve European NATO allies Germany, Britain, Belgium, Italy and Spain as well as the United States.

Between late February and early May, 7,000 troops will play out a sequence involving naval operations in the Mediterranean, and an amphibian and airlift operation in southern France.

This phase will simulate an intervention in a country undermined by militia activity, and neighbor to a powerful nuclear state stirring up the unrest.

From mid-April to early May, the soldiers will simulate an air and land conflict with that powerful state, involving the deployment of up to 12,000 troops in northern France.

Orion will involve land, sea, air and space components, including cyber warfare, as well as civilian operations in wartime, such as health services and transport, Metayer.

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