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54. MOD, France, Défense et Sécurité nationale: le Livre blanc, 178.
55. LPM 2009–2014, rapport annexé, 21.
56. Calculation of percentage is based upon figures from Jean-Luc Mathieu,
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57. International Institute for Strategic Studies, The Military Balance 1991–92
(London: Brassey’s for the IISS, 1991), 56–57.
58. International Institute for Strategic Studies, The Military Balance 2002–03
(Oxford, England: Oxford University Press for the IISS, 2002), 40–41.
59. LPM 2003–2008, 27–28.
60. LPM 2009–2014, rapport annexé, 14–15, 21.
61. Cdt José Souvignet and Lt Col Stéphane Virem, “L’Armée de l’Air dans la
tourmente: la campagne aérienne du Golfe,” Penser les ailes françaises, no. 9
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62. Rachel Utley, The Case for Coalition: Motivation and Prospects: French
Military Intervention in the 1990s, The Occasional, no. 41 (New Baskerville,
England: Strategic and Combat Studies Institute, 2001), 22.
63. François Ouisse, “Présence française en Centrafrique: l’Armée de l’Air
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64. “Une Défense nouvelle 1997–2015,” 14; and Gen Michel Mathe, “Garantir
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65. Kai Burmester, “Atlantische Annäherung—Frankreichs Politik gegenüber
der NATO und den USA,” in Die verhinderte Grossmacht: Frankreichs
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66. Gautier, Mitterrand et son armée 1990–1995, 64, 69.
67. Burmester, “Atlantische Annäherung,” 105.
68. Gautier, Mitterrand et son armée 1990–1995, 75.
69. Utley, Case for Coalition, 38.
70. MOD, France, Livre blanc sur la défense, 35–37.
71. Gregory, French Defence Policy, 106–7.
72. Gautier, Mitterrand et son armée 1990–1995, 81.
73. Gregory, French Defence Policy, 109–10.
74. Burmester, “Atlantische Annäherung,” 112.
75. Gregory, French Defence Policy, 125–27.
76. Ibid., 112–18.
77. Charles Grant, “Conclusion: The Significance of European Defence,” in
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78. Ibid., 68–69.
79. MOD, France, Défense et Sécurité nationale: le Livre blanc, 99.
80. NATO, “France Moves on Reintegrating NATO’s Military Structure,”
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