Posted on 04/30/2015 5:56:17 PM PDT by markomalley
President Francois Hollande announced on Wednesday that France would increase its defence budget by close to €4billion over four years, in response to extremist threats after the Paris jihadist attacks.
He also said that military patrols at sensitive sites throughout France that were set up after the January attacks would be made permanent, with a 7,000-strong force dedicated to internal security.
That means there will be around 3,000 less troops on the streets guarding synagogues, tourist sites and other sensitive landmarks, as there are currently around 10,000 on duty as part of the post terror attacks operation named Sentinelle.
The announcements came nearly four months after jihadists went on a three-day killing spree in Paris, leaving 17 people dead and putting France and neighbouring European countries on high alert.
Speaking after calling a defence council, Hollande said the decisions were taken to ensure France's internal security but also the safety of military forces currently engaged in operations abroad, such as in the Sahel region or in the Central African Republic.
"We have the duty to support people who may come under threat, but we also defend our own security," he told reporters.
"It's a significant effort, it's even a very big effort," Hollande said, acknowledging France's ballooning budget deficit and its ongoing quest for growth and jobs.
"I made this choice for France, for its protection, its security, and I know that if they want to have confidence in the future, the French must feel safe everywhere."
In March top counter-terrorism officials warned that the threat of a jihadist attack in France has reached a level "without precedent" and new attacks are inevitable.
"The number of targets has exploded. There are two or three thousand, maybe four thousand, people identified or suspected of evil intentions," one official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
They also warned that stationing thousands of soldiers at sensitive sights around the country would do little to prevent terror attacks.
France's armed forces have been at the forefront of some high profile recent conflicts, most notably the NATO operation to oust former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi and the recent military intervention in Mali against Islamist rebels and in the Central African Republic.
France is also involved in the bombing campaign against Isis targets in Iraq.
Hollande's announcement comes exactly a year after it was announced that France's drive to balance the books would see 20,000 posts deleted from the army by 2019.
In October last year the Minister of Defence announced the scrapping of an artillery regiment and the loss of 7,500 jobs, as the country battles a ballooning budget deficit.
Or with Pope Cromwell (he got promoted) waiting to feel the power of the glow and be divided.
Indeed. Like the NCR we’ll go waiting for someone to come save us and bitching loudly about it...
I’m more of a Courier than an NCR.
Oh look! An empty whiskey bottle!!!
Jet and a stimpak.
The ruling elites of France, UK. , Italy, even Germany. And now USA have been selling our western countries out to the islamonazis. Charles Martel
Is spinning in his grave. Either the islamics are sent home now — not later - now — or else they will take over our homes and subjugate or enslave or murder us per their Koran Anyone who doesn’t see this is blind.
Brotherhood hit it harder ;)
Haha, so sorry, government cannot protect you.
Implant GRX.... those things mimic Turbo nonaddictively and they reappear every 24 hours. You get five at level 1, 10 at level 2. They last either 2 or 4 second each. Taken with Day Tripper and Chemist perks, thats one whole minute of slow-mo punishing the bad guys.
This run I’m a Legion fanboy. Profligates like you should be hanging from a cross. Vale! Hail to Caesar!
I must have missed that. I’ll have to go back give that a go.
Coming from a girlyman in a dress with a dead wolf on his head I’m not real concerned about that outcome. The last one of your degenerate kind that mouthed off spit teeth in a McCarrin back room before squealing like a pig ;)
Yours Truly, Knight Paladin Lenhart
Mohave Chapter - Brotherhood of Steel
Muslims should be taxed to pay for this.
Didn't I heard the BoS got their a&&es handed to them at Helios by the NCR?
Vale! Hail to Caesar!
Frummanati Laz A. Mataz
Hey I can’t help it if our leader turned traitor, abandoned us and ran off to play kinky games with Lobotomites. It did however take most of their Mohave forces to overcome a handful of us, and we killed the majority of them on the way out. You should be thanking us actually. Besides, the guy they got running the place now isn’t going to fix anything anytime soon. We’ll be back for it later once they get a new coffee machine.
Oh BTW...sorry to hear about that little incident at Catherine’s landing. I hear some brain damaged mailman and a crazed vigilante slaughtered the Tranny legion’s slaver crew.
too bad, so sad...
Oops, forgot to ping to 35
Well, we did leave the dock intact, for future "diplomatic" missions.
It’s not like we’re muslims (Or Legion) wantonly destroying valued archeological sites or something. We preserved it for future generations. ...For the children...
While The Brotherhood cowers in its hole thinking of a way for a Robot to do it's work and The Legion mounts each other.
N.C.R. will be busy fixing up Helios One and Reigning in Mr. House (as Soon as Crocker signs the Proper Release Forms)
Vegas isn't Humming to attract Brotherhood, Legion or Great Khans.
Oh please. A bunch of inbreds camped out inside a non functional dam hiring messenger services to fight their wars isn’t my idea of the future of government. fortunately your cows have two heads so your soldiers (snicker) can get their Cochran fantasies out of the way at doubled rate.
Better than the pedos up the hill I’ll grant you. But we have more hot lesbians. Hot Lesbians with robots, baby!
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