Population: 59 271 thousand people. The military budget - 25,3 billion dollars (2001). The regular forces are 273 740 people (including 18 760 women). The reserve - 419 000 people, including land forces - 242 500, air force - 79 500, naval forces - 97 000. Militarized formations: gendarmerie - 94 950 people. Recruitment for the army: mixed. Hitch - 10 months. Mobilization resources - 14,6 million people, including 12,2 million able-bodied men.

Land forces: 150 000 people (9 150 women), 4 headquarters of operative (expeditionary) forces, 5 regional headquarters, 16 brigades: 2 armoured, 2 mechanized, 1 airborne, 2 armoured cavalry, 1 mountainous, 1 army-co-operation aviation, 1 lift-off, 1 SAM, 2 artillery, 1 intercommunication, 1 engineers, 1 electronic warfare and electronic reconnaissance brigades, 7 regiments of territorial defense.

The French component of the Eurocorps: 1 armoured brigade, 1 armoured cavalry and 1 motorized infantry (on armored troop carriers) regiments of the French-German motorized infantry brigade. The foreign legion (8 000 people): 1 tank, 1 airborne, 6 motorized infantry and 2 engineer regiments. The "Marin" units (14 700 people): 21 regiments (10 of them in foreign territories). The specops forces: 1 airborne regiment, 1 army-co-operation group, 3 training centres.

Arms: 809 battle tanks (of them 311 Leclerc, 498 АМХ-30B2), 1 548 armoured reconnaissance vehicles (337 AMX-10RC, 192 ERC-90 F4, 1 019 VBL M-11), 599 infantry fighting vehicles АМХ-10 Р/РС, 3 900 armored troop carriers VAB, 794 field artillery guns (including 97 155 mm towed howitzers, 273 155 mm self-propelled guns AU F-1), 61 227 mm MLRS, 363 120 mm mortars, 700 antitank missile systems Eric, 1 348 antitank missile systems Milan and HOT, other antitank means. 26 SAM systems Hawk, 98 SAM systems Roland-1 and -2, 331 portable surface-to-air missile systems Mistral, planes (2 Cessna Caravan-2, 5 PC-6, 8 TBM-700), 410 army-co-operation helicopters (262 combat: 77 SA-341F, 155 SA-342M, 30 SA-342AATCP; 4 reconnaissance AS-532; 144 transport helicopters: 24 AS-532, 120 BA-330), 8 pilotless vehicles.

Air force: 63 000 people, 473 planes, combat helicopters are not available. Tactical elements: 6 fighter and bomber air squadrons, 6 air defence fighter squadrons, 2 reconnaissance air squadrons, 1 AWACS squadron, 4 training air squadrons, 2 electronic warfare air squadrons, 14 transport squadrons, 5 helicopter squadron, 11 SAM battalions. Planes and helicopters: 352 Mirage-F1B, -F-1C, -F-1CR, -F-1CT, Mirage IVP, -M-2000B, C, O and N, 22 Jaguar, 99 Alpha Jet, 4 E-3F, 2 A-310-300, 3 DC-8F, 14 C-130 H and H-30, 11 C-135FR, 77 C-160 (C, F, G, Gabriel), 3 KC-135, 14 CN-235M, 19 N.262, 17 Falcon-20 and Falcon-50, 24 MS-760, 11 CM-170, 6 DHC-6, 32 EMB-121, 92 TB-30, 9 CAP-10, CAP-20 and CAP-231, 48 EMB-312, 2 CR-100, 3 SA-319, 29 SA-330, 7 AS-332, 3 AS-532, 6 AS-355, 4 AS-555. Air defence: 60 SAM batteries (24 Crotal, 36 Mistral).

Naval forces: 45 600 people (including 3 310 women, 1 700 marines, 6 800 aircraft, 1 000 in service for a fixed period). Operative commands: the naval strategic forces, the Atlantic, Mediterranean sea, Northern sea and La Manche, the Indian and Pacific oceans. Commands of: surface ships, anti-submarine ships, submarines, minesweepers, aircraft, marines. Navy: 4 atomic submarines with ballistic missiles (2 Triuphan, 2 Inflexible), 6 atomic submarines Rubis, submarines Agosta, carrier Charles de Golle, 1 corvette Jane d'Ark, 13 destroyers (7 George Legi, 2 Cassar, 2 Suffren, 2 Turville), 20 fregates (5 La Fayette, 9 D'Estien d'Orv, 6 Floreal), 37 patrol vessels (including 10 L'odasez, Fulmar, 3 Flaman, 8 Leopard, 2 Atos), the command ship of minesweepers Loire, 16 minesweepers (13 Eridan, 3 Antares), 4 diving vessels Volcano, 11 storm-boats (2 Dudr, 2 Hurricane, 2 tank landing ships Saber, 5 tank landing ships Batral), 18 storm-boats, 10 hydrographic vessels, 1 oceanographic vessel, 40 vessels, 16 support vessels (including 4 supply ships Durance, 1 floating shop, 2 mother ships, 4 tankers), 13 training vessels, 23 towboats (including 2 ocean ones).