Trimmed French military is no retreat http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7459214.stm
By Jonathan Marcus Diplomatic correspondent, BBC News
There is no doubt that France's new defence policy bears the stamp of President Nicolas Sarkozy himself.
He is the most Atlanticist president to occupy the Elysee Palace since the inception of the Fifth Republic in the late 1950s. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7459214.stm