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Category Archives: Mali
Friday Foto
This photo taken March 8, 2013 by the French Army Communications Audiovisual office (ECPAD) shows French soldiers patrolling in the Mettatai region in northern Mali. France’s Presidential office on Saturday March 23 2013 said that DNA testing has shown that … Continue reading
Posted in COIN / CT / CRW, Hotspots, Mali, Operations
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C’est L’Afrique
Continuing on our recent theme of French involvement in Africa, our interest was piqued recently when we saw this new -and unusual – morale patch design pop up. “C’est L’Afrique” is of course French for “This is Africa” – you … Continue reading
Posted in Hotspots, Individual Equipment, Mali
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Friday Foto
Timbuktu, 29 January 2013. Supported by several hunting patrols and helicopters of the Airmobile Group (GAM) and surveillance drones, French forces of the GTIA 21st RIMa and the 2nd Foreign legion Parachute Regiment (2e REP) simultaneously seized the Timbuktu airport … Continue reading
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French Foreign Legion paratroopers conduct a Combat Parachute Assault in Mali
On January 28, about two hundred legionnaires of the 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment (2e REP – 2e Régiment étranger de parachutistes) jumped north of Timbuktu, the ancient trading city in Mali and an important point controlled by Islamist insurgents.
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Operation Serval – French intervention in Mali
I predict that we’re going to be seeing a lot more in the news about Western military, especially counter-insurgency, operations in Africa in the months ahead – as this continent appears most definitely to be the next front in the … Continue reading
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