Laura Kayali – Politico Apr 11, 2024
The French navy is shifting its training away from a focus on policing operations to gird for war against foes who want “to destroy us,” says Rear Admiral Jacques Mallard, the commander of France’s carrier battle group.
When he joined the armed forces in the 1990s, the French navy’s main missions were to intercept drug traffickers and fight illegal fishing. Training consisted of practicing how to launch Zodiac inflatable boats and catching criminals.
Now, training focuses on war, Mallard said.
“Naval combat is becoming increasingly likely,” he told POLITICO. “We’re moving from a world where we were pretty free to do as we pleased to one where we feel threatened on a more regular basis … We now train for other missions, in particular what we call high-intensity warfare.”
France is the only EU country operating a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier — the Charles de Gaulle, which also carries nuclear weapons. It is the flagship of a wider carrier battle group that includes nuclear submarines, frigates and Rafale fighter jets.
France’s carrier battle group is expected to start a mission in the Mediterranean Sea in the coming days.
With Russia’s war against Ukraine also spilling into the Black Sea and Iran-backed Houthi rebels relentlessly attacking warships and commercial vessels in the Red Sea, Western navies have to adapt to a new environment with “increasingly uninhibited competitors,” Mallard said.
“That’s where we become a little more aggressive, or at least, we prepare to be,” the rear admiral continued.
Sailors practice fighting against “someone who wants to destroy us. Not someone who wants to do illegal trafficking, not someone who wants to steal fish, not someone who wants to watch or observe us: someone who wants to destroy us,” he said.
In 2021, the French navy introduced a new Polaris training exercise that simulates a naval battle. The idea is to put crews and vessels into free-flowing combat situations that “frees up all the rules to develop the imagination of sailors and fighters.”
“It’s a bit more risky but it’s very useful to disinhibit tactical thinking,” Mallard said. In the spring, the French navy will conduct a Polaris-type exercise with the Italian fleet.
Although France is preparing for high-intensity warfare at sea, Paris doesn’t see China as an immediate threat — whereas the United States does.
China has a “rather restrictive vision” of freedom of navigation and decided to focus its efforts on controlling the South China Sea, Mallard said, adding that French diplomats and politicians regularly call out China’s attempts to “destabilize the U.S.-led world order.”
But “France does not position itself in a bipolar logic,” he said.
“As long as the Chinese haven’t invaded the island of La Réunion or decided to kick us off the island of Mayotte, there’s no reason to single out the Chinese as our main adversary,” he said, referring to French Indian Ocean island territories.
Macron and his army of Moslems will defend France against the White people
This is an impressive quote from a dullard.
“We’re moving from a world where we were pretty free to do as we pleased to one where we feel threatened on a more regular basis … We now train for other missions, in particular what we call high-intensity warfare.”
In the paragraph above the quote, they suggest they needed aircraft carrier strike groups to deal with drug trafficking and illegal fishing boats, and now things are different, because NATO is on Russias border and tried to attack the Dombas and retake Crimea.
The key line in the quote is: ‘we feel threatened’. This is a political statement with no basis in fact. The Chinese wants to control the SCS, because if they don’t, the US will control it, and have the ability it close or restrict Chinese shipping or trade. The Chinese have already suffered a trade blockade. When ships can’t unloaded in Amerika and Europe, those ships can’t return to China. This happened, and it could happen again.
Rear Admiral Jacques Mallard should know that if the French navy goes to war, his carrier will be sunk within an hour of that war starting. Carriers are absolutely redundant. China has them, and is building more, because in the SCS theater, they are a mobile version of Chinese built and fortified islands. China isn’t stupid enough to send its carriers to the US West coast. They can be effective in the SCS, but not in the Baltic, Mediterranean, or Black Sea.
Mallard is a Dullard.
In an interesting article Larry Johnson mentions France’s new naval role (or lack thereof!) as well as other areas of confrontation between the west and Middle East, including Iran’s possible response to Israel and the west’s impotence against the Houthis in the Red Sea. Well worth five minutes.
https://sonar21.com/western-countries-panic-as-iran-weighs-its-options/
LOL.. this imbecile..
I don’t think for one minute that the irony of the following platitude is lost on this uniformed cretin..
to Wit: “We’re moving from a world where we were pretty free to do as we pleased to one where we feel threatened on a more regular basis …” of course he forgot the caveat “and we intend to make sure it happens”….
.. it’s looking more likely, that all the other plans having failed to ‘coff’ up their desired outcomes, leaves just the old standby of war the only tool left in the box.. with which to re-engineer the muggles..for wail street and the shitty..
but surely..Having seriously compromised their ability to actually mount any meaningful resistance in a land war..(OTAN is really a maritime operation.. they prefer to carpet bomb little countries from aircraft carriers before they send in the grunts)..
….or to their imagined threats… No doubt the Froggies now think that they can simply march all the millions of Africans they house and feed ..and hehe ‘conscript’.. into the meat grinder..for liberty and equality…and a welfare check.. just like the colonialists they really are…
to bury their crimes..just like the rest of the imbeciles that run the crime syndicate known euphemistically as the so called West..
Good luck..but it’s unlikely..they really aren’t that stupid..
NB:For those that have played Risk or read any military white papers/war gaming… ‘Theoretically’ and by that I mean if the Russians were actually an adversary and had a capable modern military and quality leadership (none of which is true)…They would be unbeatable in a land war fought in Central Europe… which in itself would be enough to blow back and finish the Yangee asylum…as we know it..(and wish we didn’t)..
Presumably this will be the ‘narrative’..and one we will be hearing much much more of…and very soon… as the jab deaths begin to mount noticeably..perhaps exponentially..
The “foes who want to destroy” France can be found in their capital and at meetings of international Jews, so unless that aircraft carrier and those nuclear subs can navigate The Seine, they’re barking up the wrong tree. The most depraved and dangerous enemies of just about any Western cuntry are already inside the gates; treasonous politicians, bureaucrats, Jews, activist judges, lying media, parasitic criminals calling themselves bankers, etc…
“France’s carrier battle group is expected to start a mission in the Mediterranean Sea in the coming days.” … Which certainly won’t entail them actually defending the cuntry and sinking all those ships carrying Orc invaders in a constant flood from Africa, as they should have been doing for years.
Bloviating buffoon Rear Admiral Jacques Mallard deserves to be beaten to a pulp and vigorously sodomized by a horde of randy “migrants”. You know, really stress the rear of the rear admiral.
Mallard vomited out, “France does not position itself in a bipolar logic” … In fact, France does not position itself in any logic at all.
there is just one enemy
your own zio controlled government
they gave you the covid jew-jabs
they brought in mil;ions of migrants
they killed your elderly relatives in the liver pool care pathway
to steal their homes to pay for my migrants
it is them who brought in the LBGT to chop your kids bits off and change their sex
and taxed the balls off you to pay the rothschilds loans interest fees
know your enemy