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This chapter presents the fighting that took place on 4 August 2014 between the French Battle Group and a numerically superior adversary. It sets out the tactical difficulties and explains how the orders given by the commanding officer are taken in the light of the political and strategic consequences that his decisions may have. In view of the tactical situation and the strengths and weaknesses of his Battle Group, which a third of whose vehicles are not armoured, the commanding officer decides to adapt the orders received and not to apply them as they have been transmitted to him.
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Field Marshal Viscount Slim, Defeat into Victory, PAN books, London, 2009, p. 80.
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быcтpo быcтpo, means: “fast, fast” in Russian. This expression is often used in the Foreign Legion.
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Dirou, A. (2022). A Town to Seize. In: Security and International Relations in Central Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89597-6_6
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