How the wars in Ukraine and Iran made France rethink its military plans

(Laura Kayali – Politico) France is rewriting its war playbook using lessons from Ukraine and the Middle East, as it prepares for a possible confrontation with Russia later this decade. Both conflicts are shaping imminent decisions on what weapons Paris will develop, buy and deploy, as the French government prepares to present an updated military planning law on April 8. “We are applying everything we can learn from Ukraine, particularly in terms of capability development — whether in connection with what is currently happening in the Middle East, or tomorrow on the eastern flank,” Gen. Dominique Tardif, the French air force’s deputy chief, told POLITICO. – How the wars in Ukraine and Iran made France rethink its military plans – POLITICO