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The French Republic is a sovereign state comprising territory in western Europe and several overseas regions and territories. As a member of G7 France ranked as the world’s seventh largest economy. It also has the mixed economy which combines private enterprise and government intervention. France’s economics are unstable, but it is still very competitive in the world. The reason why its economics is denounced is because its high unemployment rate and its extremely unstable CPI.

There are three primary forces directly responsible for current European defense. U.S. military forces assigned under United States European Command (EUCOM), North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and European Union (EU) defense forces. A stable Europe is vital to U.S. interest and has been for well over 100 years. After World War II, NATO was formed to provide a forum for discussion on security and provide agreement for a collective defense of members. The EU continues to expand it role beyond economic benefits and include defense forces primarily for crisis management operations. This combination of forces increases compacity but effectiveness is reduced due to redundancies and lack of interoperability.

Logan French His 103 02 Research Project September 9, 2016 The French Alliance I. Seven Years War a. The seven years’ war started in 1756 and ended in 1763 with the treaty of Paris. The French had to give up all of their territory east of the Mississippi and all their territory in Canada.

In 1943 the British and American Allies shared a common language and a common enemy, but they disagreed on the war’s grand strategy. (site) General George Marshall, Army Chief of Staff, wanted to conduct a cross channel invasion bringing the fight directly to the Germans. Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister, wanted to fight in the edges of the Axis territory and exploit the soft underbelly of Southern Europe. (site) These strategic differences culminated in the Sicily Campaign, where the Allies’ command and control function, in many cases, proved to be inadequate to consistently integrate joint functions at the operational level, as it failed to ensure all senior leaders adhered to the three key attributes for Mission Command and,

EEC (1958) was the European Economic Community, originally consisting of France, (then West) Germany, Italy, and the Benelux nations (Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg).

Throughout the course of history it has been proven that a country cannot survive without employing the use of armed forces. These forces offer security to the people of the nation. Having a strong military base allows the United States to have allies, as well as being a power house country. Through the actions of our soldiers, we have been able to protect our homeland along with providing aides to other countries in need. Currently, there are three main branches of the US Military; the United States Army, the United States Air Force and the United States Navy.

The problem preventing Allied forces from changing the current M/NATO theater-level environment to their desired campaign end state is their inability to seize and exploit the initiative. The Allies’ limited foot print in Egypt coupled with the Axis’ control of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea and most of North Africa makes holding/protecting the Suez Canal, rather than aggressive offensive operations, a primary objective. This is necessary to both deny Axis forces access to the canal and to maintain sea lines of communication (SLOC).

After the signing of the armistice in June of 1940, France was divided into two zones: the occupied zone in the North (controlled by the German) and the free zone in the South (controlled by the Vichy regime) separated by a demarcation. After his meeting with Hitler, Pétain decided to engage France in a politic of cooperation. From 1940 to 1945, women and men from all backgrounds joined the Resistance because they refused to submit to the German soldiers occupying France, as well as the Vichy government, a collaborator of Nazi Germany.

France is historically and culturally amongst the most important nations in the Western world, France also plays a very significant role in international affairs, with former colonies in every corner of the globe. Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, the Alps and the Pyrenees, France has long provided a geographic, economic, and linguistic bridge joining northern and southern Europe. It is Europe’s most important agricultural producer and one of the world’s leading industrial powers.

With the wartime cooperation between the Soviets and the Western Allies now broken, and the threat of further communist expansion in the very near future, the U.S. and eleven other Western nations banded together on April 4, 1949 and formed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The nations that united together with the United States included the United Kingdom, Belgium, France, Canada, Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands, Iceland, Luxembourg, Norway, and Portugal. This organization sought to create a counterbalance against the powerful Soviet armies that had arisen and were placed throughout eastern and central Europe. NATO pledged that an armed attack against any of the participating countries would be considered an attack against all

NATO stands for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization; a “political and military alliance”. NATO started in 1949 with 12 nations: the United States, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Iceland, Canada, United Kingdom and Portugal. According to an article “NATO’s essential purpose is to safeguard the freedom and security of its members through political and military means”. NATO involves a line of defense as well as democratic values. Roland Flamini starts his article of with describing NATO as the “west line defense” during the cold war, but then explain how some feel “about NATO relevance”.

Labor force all the members of a particular organization or population who are able to work, viewed collectively.

“In June 2012, approximately 155,163,00 people were in the labor force (those actively employed or seeking employment). With a total U.S. working-age population of approximately 243 million individuals, the labor force participation rate currently stands at 63.8 percent. Out of those 155 million individuals in the labor force, 142,415,00 are currently employed, with unemployment hovering around 8.2 percent”.

     France, which is the largest nation in Western Europe, is a presidential republic. France is a very important nation in Europe and it continues to be involved in contemporary policy issues. Helping the world as one of the great trading nations, France is a very important trading partner with the United States. Not only is France important to the United States, they are also important to countries all over the world. Their abundance of both mineral and agricultural resources make them a very important supplier of products all over the world. I chose to report on France because it is an interesting county and I wanted to learn more about it.

In 1999 seventeen countries in the European Union adopted the Euro forming a Euro Area. With the adoption of the Euro these seventeen countries discontinued their old currencies and monetary policies. Monetary Policies