FFS, get over it. We've been working with the French for years, at many different levels, and it works well. Anybody who has actually worked with the French military that I have met has really enjoyed it.
The DSL is going to have to gear up French teaching, but French is a lot easier to learn than German, and we managed fine in BAOR for years. Any youngster who wants a long career in the military should get themselves on a French exchange posting ASAP as cooperation is going to get a lot closer over the next twenty years.