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French Armed Forces

French Armed Forces
Forces armées françaises
Emblem of the French Defence Staff
Founded26 May 1445
(579 years, 326 days)
Service branches
National Gendarmerie
HeadquartersHexagone Balard, Paris
Leadership
Chief of the Armed Forces President Emmanuel Macron
Minister of the Armed Forces Sébastien Lecornu
Chief of the Defence Staff Général d'armée Thierry Burkhard
Personnel
Military age17.5
ConscriptionNone
Active personnel270,000 (2021) [1]
Reserve personnel63,700 (including Gendarmerie) [2]
Expenditure
Budget€61.8 billion ($63.7 billion)
(2025, including pensions)
€50.5 billion ($52.1 billion)
(2025, excluding pensions)[1]
Percent of GDP2.06% (2024)[2]
Industry
Domestic suppliers
Foreign suppliers United States
 United Kingdom
 Brazil
  Switzerland
 Germany
 Netherlands
 Italy
 Norway
 Canada
 Belgium
 Austria
Annual importsUS$84 million (2014–2022)[3]
Annual exportsUS$2.60 billion (2014–2022)[3]
Related articles
HistoryMilitary history of France
Warfare directory of France
Wars involving France
Battles involving France
RanksArmy ranks
Navy ranks
Air and Space Force ranks

The French Armed Forces (French: Forces armées françaises, pronounced [fɔʁs aʁme fʁɑ̃sɛːz]) are the military forces of France. They consist of four military branches – the Army, the Navy, the Air and Space Force, and the National Gendarmerie. The National Guard serves as the French Armed Forces' military reserve force. As stipulated by France's constitution, the president of France serves as commander-in-chief of the French military. France has the ninth largest defense budget in the world and the second largest in the European Union (EU). It also has the largest military by size in the EU.[4] As of 2021, the total active personnel of the French Armed Forces is 270,000. While the reserve personnel is 63,700 (including the National Gendarmerie), for a total of 333,000 personnel (excluding the active personnel of the National Gendarmerie). Including the active personnel of the National Gendarmerie, the total manpower of all the French Armed Forces combined is 435,000 strong.[5] A 2015 Credit Suisse report ranked the French Armed Forces as the world's sixth most powerful military.[6]

  1. ^ "PROJET DE LOI DE FINANCES" (PDF) (in French). Ministere Armees. Retrieved 2025-01-05.
  2. ^ "Defence Expenditure of NATO Countries (2014-2024)" (PDF). nato.int. 2024-06-17. Retrieved 2024-06-18.
  3. ^ a b "TIV of arms imports/exports data for France, 2014–2022". Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. 30 January 2024.
  4. ^ "Military expenditure by country, in constant (2015) US$ m., 2007–2016 (table)" (PDF). Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
  5. ^ "Quel avenir pour la gendarmerie ?". 3 April 2023.
  6. ^ O’Sullivan, Michael; Subramanian, Krithika (2015-10-17). The End of Globalization or a more Multipolar World? (Report). Credit Suisse AG. Archived from the original on 15 February 2018. Retrieved 2017-07-14.

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