Word: isnard
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...that the spiraling costs of nuclear modernization threaten to bankrupt conventional defense efforts. The British Army of the Rhine, for example, is undermanned and short of ammunition and tanks. Similarly, the state of French ground forces has been described as "catastrophic" by Le Monde's military expert Jacques Isnard, who claims that "they have only half the material they need." International Relations' Lellouche shares his concern, gloomily predicting that "conventional forces will have to be cut even more to pay for the nuclear investments...
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