Listen, France has had numerous attacks against its people and a serious Jihadist problem. If all it is going to do is commit the resources from one aircraft carrier then it’s fight is limited.
In Afghanistan the French actually deployed thousands of troops and personel in ground support. They had an incident in 2012 where some french troops were killed which eventually led to the removal of all ground personel. All they have is logistics.
You think they are all in? I guess you are a general.
Nope, nothing there.
“If all it is going to do is commit the resources from one aircraft carrier then it’s fight is limited.”
They only have one aircraft carrier, but it is the biggest non-US carrier in NATO. They also have their SF guys on the ground in Syria to guide in the air strikes. They are punching hard, relative their capability - the most of any European Country. They are going to get take home some ISIS scalps.
They also took the lead a couple of years back in driving alQueda out of control of Northern Mali, including their ground troops and Legionnaires.
I used to talk trash about the French military, over their defeats in WWII, but I have developed more respect for them in recent years, and remember them fondly from the Gulf War as well.
I think that the return of their carrier after reloading, will be a possible indicator of an opcoming assault on the ISIS capitol of Raqqa (Sept? Oct?).