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Land Army
Armée de terre
Founded
26 May 1445 (1445-05-26) (578 years, 11 months ago)
Country
France
Branch
Army
Role
Land warfare
Size
118,600 active personnel 23,000 reserve personnel[1]
Part of
French Armed Forces
Motto(s)
Honneur et Patrie "Honour and Fatherland"
Colors on logo:
Blue, White, and Red
Engagements
List of conflicts
Hundred Years' War
Colonial Wars (1534–1980)
Italian Wars
Thirty Years' War
War of the League of Augsburg
War of the Spanish Succession
War of the Polish Succession
War of the Austrian Succession
Seven Years' War
American Revolutionary War
French Revolutionary Wars
Napoleonic Wars
French intervention in Spain
Greek War of Independence
Conquest of Algeria
Belgian Revolution
Franco-Moroccan War
Cochinchina Campaign
Crimean War
Franco-Austrian War
Franco-Prussian War
Paris Commune
French conquest of Tunisia
Mandingo Wars
First Franco-Dahomean War
Second Franco-Dahomean War
Ouaddai War
First World War
Franco-Turkish War
Levant Campaign
Rif War
Second World War
Indochina War
Malagasy Uprising
Suez Crisis
Algerian War
Lebanese Civil War
United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (1978–present)[2]
Gulf War
Kosovo War
1999 East Timorese crisis
Operation Enduring Freedom
War in Afghanistan
Northern Mali Conflict
Second Ivorian Civil War
Central African Republic conflict
Website
https://www.defense.gouv.fr/terre
Commanders
Chief of the Armed Forces
President Emmanuel Macron
Chief of the Defence Staff
Army General Thierry Burkhard
Chief of the Army Staff
Army General Pierre Schill
Major General of the French Army
Army Corps General Hervé Gomart
Military unit
The French Army, officially known as the Land Army (French: Armée de terre, lit.'Army of Land'), is the principal land warfare force of France, and the largest component of the French Armed Forces; it is responsible to the Government of France, alongside the French Navy, French Air and Space Force, and the National Gendarmerie.[3] The Army is commanded by the Chief of Staff of the French Army (CEMAT), who is subordinate of the Chief of the Defence Staff (CEMA), who commands active service Army units and in turn is responsible to the President of France.[4] CEMAT is also directly responsible to the Ministry of the Armed Forces for administration, preparation, and equipment.
The French Army, following the French Revolution, has generally been composed of a mixed force of conscripts and professional volunteers. It is now considered a professional force, since the French Parliament suspended the conscription of soldiers.
According to British historian Niall Ferguson, out of all recorded conflicts which occurred since the year 387 BC, France has fought in 168 of them, won 109, lost 49 and drawn 10; this makes France the most successful military power in European history in terms of number of fought and won.[5][anachronism]
^"Armée de terre – Ministère de Armées". www.defense.gouv.fr. Retrieved 27 January 2022.
^United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon Peacekeeping in between the Blue Line
^"www.defense.gouv". www.defense.gouv.fr. Retrieved 27 January 2022.
^"Armée de terre". www.defense.gouv.fr. Retrieved 27 January 2022.
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