Why doesn france put any military resources into NATO at the moment?
Actually, it does. Quoted from “Defence – France and NATO” by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs: “France and NATO France is one of the founding members of the Atlantic Alliance created by the 1949 Washington Treaty. Since leaving the integrated NATO structure in 1966, France has continued to participate fully in the activities of the political bodies… …France is one of the leading contributors of personnel and funding to NATO, with 5,000 of its troops committed to Alliance operations. France contributes 15.3% of the civilian budget and 13.8% of the military budget for the Alliance. France considers that the European defence structure and the NATO structure are complements to each other and not rivals… …France participates in the NATO response force and supports the policy for enlarging NATO to include the countries of Central and Eastern Europe.” This sounds as though France considers itself a member of “the Atlantic Alliance,” and over the years France has actually taken
