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French Army Doctrine

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Wednesday, October 10th 2012, 6:28am

French Army Doctrine

Notes on French Army Doctrine, Tactics, Strategy, etc.

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Principles of Warfare

The French Principles of Warfare (Principes de la guerre)
  1. Simplicité (Simplicity): Preparing clear, uncomplicated, precise plans to ensure understanding of the objective.
  2. Clarté (Clarity of Purpose): Military operations must have a clearly-defined goal.
  3. Faisabilité (Attainability): The goal of the military operation should be attainable.
  4. Unité (Unity): Military forces should work towards the same goals with unity of command and purpose; cooperation.
  5. Sécurité (Security): Preventing the enemy from learning your own goals, strengths, weaknesses, and dispositions, or providing him misleading information about these aspects. Also, ensuring that the enemy is unable to mislead or surprise you.
  6. Mobilité (Mobility): Placing the enemy in a position of disadvantage through the use of maneuver; exploiting success, maintaining freedom of action and initiative, and sustaining momentum.
  7. Profondeur (Depth of Operation): Engagement with and destruction of the enemy throughout the full depth of their deployment.
  8. Economie (Economy of Force): Employment of all combat power in the most effective manner possible, without waste or purposelessness.
  9. Puissance (Power): Puissance is the massing of overwhelming combat power at the decisive place and time.
  10. Initiative (Initiative): Utilizing surprise, decisiveness, agility and aggressiveness to achieve and retain the initiative: efforts to fulfill the plan in spite of difficulties.
  11. Agressivité (Aggressiveness): The deliberate cultivation of energy, vigour, and relentlessness in pursuit of the objective.
  12. Préparation (Preparedness): Possessing the mental and material fortitude to conduct combat operations.
  13. Durabilité (Sustainability or Logistics): Maintaining or restoring combat potential.
  14. Flexibilité (Flexibility): The capability to adapt to changing circumstances.