De Gaulle.

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Yet more from the latest edition of the DEBKAfile newsletter:

The French prepare to enter the fray in Libya.

"French nuke carrier for sea-air drill with Egypt ahead of Libya offensive"

29 February.

"The two navies and air forces will rehearse a multinational assault on ISIS in Libya, for which President Barack Obama is increasingly reluctant to commit US troops. The French nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle is on its way to the Mediterranean for joint maneuvers with the Egyptian navy to prepare for a joint attack on ISIS in Libya . . . It will be the Egyptian navy’s first joint exercise with a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier." 

See the previous blog entries the topic of which is Libya and the Multi-National Force:

http://militaryanalysis.blogspot.com/2016/01/cyrenecia.html

http://militaryanalysis.blogspot.com/2016/01/mnf-libya_9.html

http://militaryanalysis.blogspot.com/2016/01/libya-mnf.html

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