The French had developed a pretty unrivaled SOF/paramilitary apparatus during the 50s, and it was all thrown in the garbage rather unceremoniously by de Gaulle.

It's just a figure of speech, brother...but SDECE had attempted to bolster it's paramilitary capacity going back to the early/mid 70s, so just a couple of years after de Gaulle left.

This was a direct result of their involvement in Angola, and it was only accelerated by Entebbe.

Yes, you did.

And yes he did. He disbanded the 1er Choc, 11e Choc and 12e Choc, and a small fraction of their personnel was divided into what would become the CPIS and CPEOM, but this did not constitute an operational unit. This i why the GO of the 1er RPIMA became a SOF unit in the 70s.

The thing in question actually talks about the dual mission that took place in Kolwezi:

The REP jumped and fought, yes.

The 1er RPIMA conducted a parallel mission in support of the operation.

Again...if you knew how to read you would notice that I very specifically did not say that.

You'll notice that I never called the 2e REP SOF, friend.

A fantastic article about exactly that:

Charles de Gaulle (a pretty forward thinking guy) disbanded/downsized all French SOF units after the Algerian war ended.

What happened after that? Well, it turns out it's actually pretty tough to do that whole Françafrique thing without SOF!

So guess what the Army did the second he was gone?

I got out of the army and went to grad school. That's really it.

No one understands Trump less than his followers

LMAO!

Smart woman.

It reminds me of Lula telling people to ask the first lady about his sexual prowess.

The idea that we should be bombing someone just because is the great unifier.

I always interpreted this meme from that exact perspective....It's not hard to decipher why a bunch of random Afghans planted IEDs in the hopes that some American would step on 'em.

Believing in "Islamo-Gauchisme" is a sure sign that you're an incredibly racist piece of shit.

Pierre-André Taguieff.