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The French government announced early today that it has raised their terror alert level from "Run" to "Hide". The only two higher terror alert levels in France are "Surrender" and "Collaborate". The raise in the threat level was precipitated by a recent fire which destroyed France's white flag factory, effectively disabling their military...
Seriously, though. When I was first in Afghanistan in 2002/2003, one of the units we supported there was French Special forces, who were operating in the southeast of the country. From what I saw of them, they were a tough group of professional soldiers, obviously good at their job. They, along with their US counterparts, were routing out AQ personnel in the districts that were located far from the main city of Kabul. One thing to note, is that at the soldier level, most of the politics junk goes out the window, and soldiers work together in a common goal, getting the mission done and surviving.
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