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Ministry of War Ministry of War may refer to: * Ministry of War (imperial China) (c.600–1912) * Chinese Republic Ministry of War (1912–1946) * Ministry of War (Kingdom of Bavaria) (1808–1919) * Ministry of War (Brazil) (1815–1999) * Ministry of War (Estoni ...

, preceding2 = Ministry of the Navy , preceding3 = Ministry of the Air , dissolved = , superseding1 = , superseding2 = , jurisdiction = Government of France , headquarters = Hôtel de Brienne
Paris 7e, French Republic
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Hexagone Balard Hexagone Balard is the headquarters of the French Armed Forces and the Ministry of the Armed Forces. Inaugurated in 2015, more than 9,300 personnel from the French Army, French Navy, French Air and Space Force and Direction générale de l'armeme ...

Paris 15e, French Republic , coordinates =
, motto = , employees = 271,268 , budget = €54.494 billion , minister1_name =

Sébastien Lecornu Sébastien Lecornu (; born 11 June 1986) is a French politician who served as Minister of the Armed Forces in the government of Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne since 20 May 2022. A member of La République En Marche! (LREM) since he left The ...

, minister1_pfo = , minister2_name = Minister of the Armed Forces , minister2_pfo = , deputyminister1_name = , deputyminister1_pfo = , deputyminister2_name = , deputyminister2_pfo = , chief1_name = Thierry Burkhard , chief1_position = Chief of the Defence Staff , chief2_name = , chief2_position = , public_protector = , deputy = , parent_department = , parent_agency = , parent_agency_type = , child1_agency = , child2_agency = , keydocument1 = , website = , agency_id = , map = , map_size = , map_caption = , footnotes = , embed = The Ministry of Armed Forces (, ) is the ministry of the Government of France in charge of managing the French Armed Forces inside and outside French soil. Its head is the Minister of the Armed Forces. From 1947 until 2017, the Ministry was designated the Ministry of Defence (french: Ministère de la Défense). It is France's ministry of defence.

Organisation

Minister of the Armed Forces

The head of the department is the Minister of the Armed Forces. The current officeholder has been

since 2022. Currently, he reports directly to the President of the Republic, the Commander-in-Chief of the French Armed Forces. His mission is to organize and manage the country Defense Policy in liaison with other departments. He is also in charge of mobilizing troops and managing the military infrastructure. He is responsible of the French Armed forces security to the

Parliament In modern politics, and history, a parliament is a legislative body of government. Generally, a modern parliament has three functions: representing the electorate, making laws, and overseeing the government via hearings and inquiries. Th ...

Chief of the Defence Staff

The Chief of the Defence Staff (CEMA) reports directly to the Minister. He is in charge of conducting operations, troops training, troops inspection, programming the forces future, and gathering and analyzing Intelligence. He is also in charge of maintaining relationships with other countries. The position of Chief of the Defence Staff was held by

French Army The French Army, officially known as the Land Army (french: Armée de Terre, ), is the land-based and largest component of the French Armed Forces. It is responsible to the Government of France, along with the other components of the Armed Force ...

General A general officer is an officer of high rank in the armies, and in some nations' air forces, space forces, and marines or naval infantry. In some usages the term "general officer" refers to a rank above colonel."general, adj. and n.". OED ...

Pierre de Villiers until 20 July 2017, when he handed his resignation without an official reason. However sources suggest that this was done as a protest against the announced defence budget cuts in contradiction to previous assurances for increased defence spendings.

François Lecointre François Gérard Marie Lecointre (; born 6 February 1962) is a French army general who served as Chief of the Defence Staff between 2017 and 2021. As a captain, with Lieutenant Bruno Heluin (platoon leader) as the company commanding officer, h ...

took over as Chief of Staff of the Armies on the following day.

SGA

The Secretary General for Administration is in charge of the general administration of the Department. He assists the Minister for: * Elaborating Budget * Legal advice * Human resources policy * House resources * Social Management The position is held by Jean-Paul Bodin.

DGA

The ''Direction Générale de l'Armement'' is the research and development service of the Department. It is in charge of furnishing equipment to all branches of the Armed Forces and creating the future equipment of the armies. The service manages more than 80 projects and commanded more than 7.5 billion euros to the national Industry in 2011.

Headquarters

The headquarters of the Ministry of the Armies is at the Hotel de Brienne, in the 14th Arrondissement of Paris but all services have been moved to a new headquarters. On 5 November 2015, French president François Hollande inaugurated The new French Defence Ministry headquarters at Balard Site, nicknamed

or "Balardgon" in reference to its American counterpart

The Pentagon The Pentagon is the headquarters building of the United States Department of Defense. It was constructed on an accelerated schedule during World War II. As a symbol of the U.S. military, the phrase ''The Pentagon'' is often used as a meton ...

. Hexagone Balard concentrates all components of the French Armed Forces, and houses the Chief of Staff of the Army, Chief of Staff of the Navy, Chief of Staff of the Air and Space Force, the

Direction générale de l'armement The Direction générale de l’armement (DGA; English: Directorate General of Armaments), is the French Government Defence procurement and technology agency responsible for project management, development and purchase of weapon systems for the Fr ...

, the General Secretary for the Administration and the Chief of the Defence Staff, while the office of the Minister of the Armed Forces stays in the Hotel de Brienne. It is a 250 000 square metres (2690978 Sq Ft) building on a 39.5 acre (16.5 hectares) ground. Its nickname "Hexagon" was given to the project because of the shape of the ministry building. The center of the quadrilateral that forms the whole of the West plot consists of two buildings of hexagonal shape.

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Armies An army (from Old French ''armee'', itself derived from the Latin verb ''armāre'', meaning "to arm", and related to the Latin noun ''arma'', meaning "arms" or "weapons"), ground force or land force is a fighting force that fights primarily on ...

Organisation

Minister of the Armed Forces

Chief of the Defence Staff

SGA

DGA

Headquarters

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