A week into the French military intervention in Mali, it is becoming clear that France may have chewed more than it can swallow. Like in Iraq and Afghanistan, this is not a conventional war. France knows that airstrike alone won’t achieve the desired objectives and Paris has decided to put boots on the ground. This is a bold move but it is a very risky one. AQIM (Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb) and its partners (Ansar Dine, Mujwa) might decide, in face of a stronger army, to start an urban warfare in cities that were recaptured by the French army. This isn’t going to be a boxing match with two adversaries facing each other in a ring. French troops could soon find themselves in an ugly, messy and very bloody war.
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