2020年法国萨赫勒军事战略解析

Abstract:Launched in January 2013，the Sahel anti-terrorist war，including two operations（first Serval，then Barkhane）is France’s biggest military action since the end of colonial wars. In terms of duration，resources devoted and mission complexity，the Sahel anti-terrorist war is a remarkable one in French military history. In a pure military perspective，the target of elimination of terrorist threat in Sahel cannot be achieved，because of the mismatch between the guidelines of action and the goal pursued by the war. However，this is a logic result of French strategy which projects the Sahel anti-terrorist war into more global and strategic considerations：the real concerns of France are not the expansion of global terrorism in Sahel and its consequences，but the consolidation of French military presence in Africa and from that the pushing forward of the construction of EU’s independent defense system. Behind France’s Sahel military strategy can be found its efforts to adapt to new challenges caused by the mutation in world landscape and to preserve France’s roles as a middle global power.

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