A dear friend reports the French are now complete with a live fire exercise in the Gulf Region, lots of tanks running about going boom bang...unmarked Mirages zooming about....AWACS operating in the area.....unless I miss my mark here....sounds like they might anticipate some combat and want to be trained up for the event.
When it happens....the French will be there too.
But then again, as someone else has so nicely put it....."Going to war without the French, is like going deer hunting without an Acordion."