David Saforcada
Defence
54 documented positions: from their programme first, then their campaign, their party and earlier texts.
2027 programme or campaign document : 53 · Campaign proposal or statement : 1
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Invest in national defence and deterrence and develop overseas territories, the maritime economic zone and blue economy.
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Reject an integrated European army, deterrent or political command; join shared operations only with French-approved missions and rules while protecting critical technology and supplies.
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Maintain national detection, attribution and intervention capabilities for air, maritime, electromagnetic, digital and space domains under French command.
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Retain national command over deployed forces; in every coalition a French officer may suspend or end participation, supported by independent communications and intelligence.
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Keep nuclear doctrine, capabilities, targeting and employment decisions exclusively national, maintaining necessary communications, scientific skills and industry.
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Leave NATO’s integrated military command while remaining in the political alliance at this stage; permit case-by-case cooperation and periodically reassess treaty membership.
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Require overseas interventions to have a political objective, legal basis, resources, exit strategy and risk assessment; reject regime-change wars and operations without clear objectives.
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Maintain national human, technical, space, cyber, maritime and financial intelligence under institutional oversight; allow reciprocal cooperation without single-provider dependency or uncontrolled data access.
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Link ships, aircraft, satellites, drones, radar and professionals in a permanent alert-and-response chain; supplement patrol vessels with long-endurance systems, crews and forward maintenance and publish basin coverage subject to secrecy.
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Organise five presence fleets under one command: Atlantic-Channel-North Sea, Mediterranean, Antilles-Guiana, Indian/Southern Ocean and Pacific-Indo-Pacific; target two aircraft carriers and four amphibious helicopter carriers, with a major Indo-Pacific support base after study and consultation.
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Reinforce five overseas regional forces with permanent units and personnel; provide land, sea, air, intelligence, cyber, engineering and medical joint capacity per basin and modernise infrastructure under French command.
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Integrate resilience into defence-critical policies including energy, health, transport, food and data; prepare armed forces for military and hybrid threats without replacing routine policing.
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Retain a secure national command chain and independent planning, targeting, communications, navigation, intelligence and support; no coalition automatically triggers French deployment.
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Strengthen human, electromagnetic, space, cyber, maritime, financial and scientific intelligence; provide redundant communications and alerts with manual and offline capabilities after attacks.
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Keep deterrence under the president’s sole decision without European or foreign sharing; ensure continuity of naval and airborne components, communications, weapons, tests and skills, with secrecy-compatible democratic oversight.
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Leave NATO’s integrated command while remaining a political member at this stage; cooperate and join collective defence only by French decision, rejecting a supranational army and shared deterrence.
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Prepare a new military programme effective in 2028 raising annual defence spending above €100 billion; distinguish funding, orders, deliveries, personnel, training and readiness, with separate financing and industrial scheduling and no double counting.
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Retain all military components with sufficient mass for alert, deployment, rotation and regeneration; simultaneously defend national and overseas territory, contribute to a major coalition and conduct a limited independent operation.
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Set multi-year ammunition, missile, drone, parts, fuel, battery, medical, electronic and equipment stocks for high-intensity needs; distribute and rotate them with industrial reserves and separate training stocks.
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Contract maintenance against actual availability, retain military battlefield repair and heavy industrial support; train for dispersion, jamming, losses, logistics and evacuation without wholly replacing live exercises with simulation.
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Plan and exercise mobilisation, requisition, flows and industrial conversion; use multi-year contracts, minimum orders, simplified standards and reserve capacity with stocks or diversified suppliers beyond extraterritorial vetoes.
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Expand heavy Leclerc, tracked armour, artillery, engineering, air defence and logistics with allowances for maintenance, reserves and losses; retain complementary light, airborne, mountain, marine and air-mobile forces.
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Expand and upgrade Leclerc tanks with protection, sensors, communications, drones and parts; put the successor under French prime contracting and abandon the current MGCS format, allowing modular cooperation without foreign veto on architecture, exports or timing.
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Strengthen long-range fires, rockets, missiles, loitering munitions and drones; deploy counter-drone detection, jamming and interception and mobile layered air defence for forces, command, logistics and vital sites.
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Expand army aviation helicopters and acquire heavy-lift capacity, combine them with drones, train for contested environments and disperse aircraft, parts and mechanics.
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Strengthen engineering, transport, maintenance, fuel, communications and health for sustained deployment; provide modular hospitals, surgery, transfusion, protected evacuation and rehabilitation, with prepared civilian cooperation without depleting civilian services.
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Organise five permanent naval presences in the Atlantic-Channel-North Sea, Mediterranean, Indian Ocean, Pacific and Antilles-Guiana, with stocks, workshops, intelligence and air assets under French command.
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Programme two aircraft carriers for continuous availability, including the new-generation design and a second sharing equipment; provide four amphibious helicopter carriers with associated escorts, submarines, replenishment ships, aircraft, ammunition and personnel.
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Increase frigates, patrol and sovereignty vessels, replenishment ships and mine-warfare capacity; maintain nuclear submarines and complement them with maritime patrol aircraft, helicopters and drones, prioritising actual availability.
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Develop maritime drones, underwater robots and deep-water sensors for infrastructure and cable monitoring and repair; modernise robotic mine clearance while retaining human skills and producing repairable interoperable systems at scale.
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Reinforce permanent forces in the Antilles, Guiana, Réunion-Mayotte, New Caledonia and Polynesia with joint assets and stocks; equip bases for reinforcements, prioritise French territories and cooperate in the Indo-Pacific without alignment.
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Expand Rafale numbers, stocks, French weapons and sensors; lead its successor in France, abandon the current multinational SCAF format and allow separable modules preserving intellectual property, exports and scheduling.
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Study then acquire a robust, enduring, low-cost light attack aircraft for suitable missions, especially overseas, complementing Rafale, drones and helicopters and subject to threat conditions.
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Strengthen A400M, C-130, tanker, early-warning and transport fleets; guarantee very-heavy transport through purchase, secured leasing or cooperation; harden and disperse bases with stocks, shelters, rapid repair and counter-drone systems.
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Substantially expand SAMP/T, short- and very-short-range systems, artillery and electronic warfare in layered air defence; protect nuclear sites, bases, cities, ports and grids with cost-proportionate drone responses and directed energy only when mature.
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Guarantee space access, communications, observation, signals collection, warning, navigation and surveillance with redundancy and rapid replacement; provide lawful protection and hostile-capability denial, sovereign data and commercial services only as supplements.
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Maintain at least 80,000 operational reservists excluding the civic reserve, genuinely equipped, led and employed, organised into combat/support and territorial-defence tiers.
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Create a first tier of at least 20,000 reservists able to staff three to six combined-arms battlegroups and specialist support, with roughly 30–50 activity days yearly by mission and equipment comparable to regular forces where required.
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Organise the second tier by defence zone and department with reservists, specialists, available former personnel and volunteers to protect vital sites, borders, coasts, rear areas and supplies and help during serious crises.
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Offer exclusively military voluntary service to French citizens aged 18–25, targeting ten months followed by a defined reserve-availability period; recognise certifications and skills without substituting cheap labour for professionals.
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Make the gendarmerie the departmental cornerstone of territorial defence within inter-agency zonal plans, with a clear military chain for defence missions and preservation of routine services.
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Regularly exercise no-notice mobilisation and hybrid crises with forces, reserves, prefects, local authorities and operators; target compensation to employers granting release beyond the minimum, protect self-employed people and SMEs and grade crisis call-up duties.
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Protect defence industry through equity, golden shares, vetoes, orders and foreign-investment screening; ensure second suppliers and stocks through contracts and secure public rights to use, repair, modify and produce in crises.
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Abandon SCAF and MGCS in their current forms for French-led programmes; retain useful modular cooperation without blocking unanimity or export vetoes and prefer open standards to irreversible industrial integration.
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Use the advanced-projects agency for dual-use demonstrators in AI, quantum, hypersonics, robotics, drones, sensors, directed energy, electronics, materials, medicine and seabeds; test early, order initial production rapidly and protect assets.
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Strengthen cyberdefence, military offensive capacity and legally controlled information operations, staffing and reserves; design weapons for contested networks, national updates, data free of extraterritorial dependency and total-outage exercises.
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Strengthen independent intelligence and secure sharing among services with separate missions, countering espionage, interference and proliferation; provide national sensors and analysts under legal and parliamentary oversight with source protection.
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Authorise arms exports according to French interests, international law, technology protection and misuse risk; do not delay domestic deliveries without an explicit decision and replenishment plan, and focus Francophone cooperation on training, maintenance and autonomy.
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Ensure clear timely pay and pensions adapted to service constraints, retain shortage specialists, support housing, childcare, partners’ jobs, schooling, transfers and civilian transition, and renovate barracks and bases.
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Give physically and psychologically injured personnel a continuous pathway with a named coordinator, care, rehabilitation and retraining; support families long term, provide prompt contestable pension and compensation decisions and involve veterans in remembrance and mentoring.
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Condition interventions on an explicit purpose, attainable objective, legal basis, rules, resources, review and exit; promptly inform Parliament and report costs and mission changes, without extending an operation whose purpose is unattainable.
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Develop voluntary sports-defence-emergency-school partnerships for fitness, first aid and service, and reserve access to preparation; strengthen injured service members’ recovery from care to autonomy or competition.
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Create an operational reserve of 80,000 people.
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Leave NATO’s integrated command.
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Source Civique, « David Saforcada — Defence », https://sourcecivique.fr/en/candidates/david-saforcada/defense/, accessed [date] (version of 1 November 2026).
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