@tacticalarchives_: || Combat Archives || French Foreign Legion & Army in heavy combat in Afghanistan | France was there from the beginning. In the weeks following September 11th 2001 France invoked Article 5 of the NATO charter alongside every other alliance member; a declaration that an attack on one is an attack on all. French forces deployed to Afghanistan as part of Operation Enduring Freedom and later the NATO led ISAF mission, contributing thousands of troops across more than a decade of sustained combat operations. The Foreign Legion and conventional French Army units operated primarily in the Kapisa and Surobi provinces east of Kabul; some of the most dangerous and contested terrain in the entire country where insurgent activity was relentless and the terrain favoured ambushes at every turn. The August 2008 Uzbin Valley ambush was the single deadliest day for French forces in Afghanistan; 10 French soldiers killed in a Taliban ambush that shocked France and forced a national conversation about the true cost of the war. French special operations forces operated alongside American and British counterparts on classified direct action missions that have never been fully disclosed. France lost 89 soldiers in Afghanistan across the entire campaign; men whose sacrifice is rarely mentioned in English language accounts of the war. This is their archive too. #TacticalArchives #afghanistan #combat #army #war

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