Cheese-Eating Boots On Ground (and in air)

1) Grands fromagers:


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2) Bottes:

France completes Operation Tudelle in northern Mali
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France completed its Operation ‘Tudelle’ in Mali’s Ifoghas mountains, 500 km north of Gao and close to the Algerian border in early November. The operation saw a shift in both jihadist and French military tactics, while behind the scenes all the indications are that France’s military involvement in Mali is set for the long term…
Operation ‘Tudelle’ involved some 400 soldiers and 100 vehicles, and forms part of the wider Operation ‘Barkhane’, which spans from Chad to Mali and involves 3,000 French personnel…
According to the French military, Operation ‘Tudelle’ saw 24 jihadists killed, two captured and a large amount of ammunition, weapons and bomb-making components destroyed. France meanwhile suffered its 10th fatality since its Operation ‘Serval’ was launched in Mali in 2013, when a French special forces operator from the Commando Parachutiste de l’Air n°10 was killed on 29 October…

14 Replies to “Cheese-Eating Boots On Ground (and in air)”

  1. The filthy stuff that passes for cheese in the US shouldn’t even be fed to hogs. To make it worse, American dairy people will license a name of a cheese (Cambozola for instance) and put out tasteless goop under a well-known label.
    Some orientals can’t digest cheese.
    BTWl the German military just before WW II thought that the French had won WW I and thought that the invasion of france in May 1940 was doomed to failure.

  2. Not sure what the cheese has to do with operation Tudelle but I do know that thanks to the Mafia (better known as the milk and cheese cartel) we would buy a lot more cheese if it was affordable. We pay a ridiculous price compared to our southern neighbors.

  3. Read the Jane’s account more carefully. That’s one casualty in this operation. It’s only the latest in a string of operations over the past 18 months by the French.

  4. As an Englishman, I am not a particular fan of the French in some ways, ut I have visited the country a few times and always enjoyed it.
    To call the French surrender monkeys isn’t really fair. In world war 1 33 percent of all military age men were killed, and substantially more than that must have been killed. In effect, they killed or crippled all there young men defending their country. At the St Cyr military academy, where French army officers are trained, Class of 1914, is one entry on their memorial. Every single officer from the graduating class of 1914 was killed in world war one. A country can not sustain that kind of sacrifice without it having some effect on their future. Unfortunately, that future is being lived out now.

  5. Considering the Chinese will eat anything that crawls, is nearly extinct, or cultually taboo………………..cheese?
    We should sell off more of our countries to China.

  6. France is a joke, they’ve given their country away to Algeria, and by extension Islam.
    Let them rot on their knee’s banging their foreheads on the filthy city streets of Paris and Marseilles.

  7. Knight;
    Exactly. It was bad in ’68 when I was last there and has only got worse. Big Julie’s behavior against the Gauls was completely understandable.

  8. A little known factoid re the “surrender monkey” nonsense….Verdun.
    The intent of the German Generals after their initial failure to capture Verdun was to continue attacks to effect a war of attrition…..
    It worked….the German army basically lost WW1 at Verdun.
    The Battle of France in 1940 was lost at Verdun….

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