France

 

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reliability index 1 (excellent) GDP $2.9 Trillion 2009 Personnel 134,000; plus 29,000 civilians Budget $45-billion 2009 Territorial defense forces 75 companies (all arms), 14 companies (engineers, support); 30,000 troops.   Organization   (Regiments are normally reinforced battalion-sized)

 

Note

 

While this Orbat appears to exactly resemble the Wikipedia Orbat, ours is a company orbat and originally written for us more than two years ago, before the Wikipedia article, and periodically updated. Like ours, the Wiki orbat appears to rely on official websites, and this may account for the similarities.

 

As with all orbats, please keep in mind that:

 

(a)    Information from our sources may be incomplete

(b)   Information from official websites is not necessarily current

 

France maintains considerable stability in its units, but changes do take place.

 

 

Brigades

 

            2 armored (2^nd, 7^th)

            2 mechanized (1^st, 3^rd)

            2 light armored (6^th, 9^th)

            1 airborne (11^th)

1 mountain (27^th)

1 combat helicopter (4^th)

1 joint (Franco-German)

1 SF

2 logistics (1^st, 2^nd)

1 engineer

1 artillery

1 signals

1 ISTAR

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