[1rudeboy]

It’s fashionable to rip on French troops on FR, granted . . . but their performance in Africa of late leaves nothing to scoff at . . . .

[steelhead_trout]

“It’s fashionable to rip on French troops on FR, granted . . . but their performance in Africa of late leaves nothing to scoff at . . . .”

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Indeed. The French Air Force transported Moroccan troops to what was then Zaire in 1977 to fight Marxist rebels in Shaba province. The Foreign Legion itself took on those rebels a year later. I can think of other examples, like fighting Libyan troops in Chad back in the 1980s.

[redgolum]

The French, for what ever reason, don’t fight on their own soil very well. Even in their colonies.

However, when they go to Africa, they tend to solve the problem pretty well.

[hinckley buzzard]

You are right. But for a couple of poorly trained and poorly led reserve divisions of butchers and bakers who panicked and ran before Guderian's tanks, the French have traditionally been tough fighters. They acquit themselves well in Africa.