The French government is reportedly planning to pass out survival manuals this summer, as the country reckons with increasingly tense international relations.
President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday that France planned to increase orders for Rafale fighter jets, adding the country will have to get ready to defend itself "if we want to avoid war".
French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday ruled out bringing back mandatory military service but said he wanted to mobilise society in the face of Russian aggression and would make an announcement in the coming weeks.
Frightened by the prospect of US security disengagement and three years of Moscow's war against Ukraine, European countries are debating reinstating compulsory military service to boost their defences in the face of Russian aggression.
Europe's security is at a turning point, EU chief Ursula von der Leyen said on Monday, as she arrived in Paris for an emergency meeting to address the US's shock policy shift on the war in Ukraine.
Valérie André, the first French woman to be promoted to the rank of general in an armed forces career that saw her deployed as a doctor, parachutist and helicopter pilot died on Tuesday aged 102, the defence ministry said.
Two French pilots died on Wednesday after their Rafale jets collided in mid-air in eastern France, President Emmanuel Macron said, in a rare accident involving the cutting-edge military aircraft.
France on Wednesday carried out its first test firing of an updated nuclear-capable missile designed to be launched by a Rafale fighter jet, Defence Minister Sebastien Lecornu said.
France and Germany on Friday firmed up plans to jointly develop a next-generation battle tank equipped with artificial intelligence and laser technology, billed as a game changer in modern warfare.
France's defence ministry on Friday announced new guidelines and an internal probe after allegations of impunity following sexual violence in the military.
The French navy has shot down two drones over the Red Sea where Yemen's Huthi rebels have been attacking ships, the defence ministry in Paris has said.
French President Emmanuel Macron has announced plans to create 238 new gendarmerie brigades and employ more than 2,100 gendarmes by 2027, in a bid to fight crime in suburban and rural France.
France will on Monday host a
meeting of European defence ministers to try to smooth out differences over the continent's joint air defence, after bristling at a German-led project that snubbed its manufacturers.
Security forces in the overseas territory of French Guiana, South America, have arrested a man suspected of having killed a member of an elite French gendarme unit, the prosecutor's office said Saturday.
France's military will raise the maximum age for reservists to 70, the defence minister said on Tuesday, after months of clashes over a divisive increase to the nation's minimum retirement age.
An elite French gendarme was shot dead in France's overseas territory of French Guiana in South America while taking part in an operation against illegal gold mining, the French presidency said Saturday.
EU defence ministers on Wednesday discussed plans to raid their stockpiles to rush one billion euros' worth of ammunition to Ukraine and place joint orders for more to ensure supplies keep flowing.
France has launched its biggest military exercise in decades, with soldiers practising parachute operations and amphibious landings along the Mediterranean coast, as well as cyber-warfare.
France is planning its biggest ever military exercise involving 12,000 troops, including NATO allies, in the first half of next year, a commander at the chiefs of staff said on Tuesday
Australia is to pay France compensation after backing out of a deal to buy submarines from Naval Group - a defence manufacturer, in which the French government is the majority shareholder.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has naturally focused attention on military matters, so just how powerful is the French army? And is France really the only European country capable of unilateral military action overseas?
A French inventor and entrepreneur on Sunday soared above the Champs-Elysées on a turbine engine-powered flyboard in front of President Emmanuel Macron and other EU leaders.
France will maintain its participation in the coalition fighting Islamic State forces in Syria, government officials said Thursday after President Donald Trump surprised Washington's allies by ordering US troops home.
France said on Friday it would send its aircraft carrier to the Indian Ocean next year, to defend freedom of navigation at a time of growing Chinese assertiveness in disputed waters.
