For Sébastien Boussois, a researcher specializing in the Middle East, the failure of the French military operation in the Sahel is obvious, insofar as jihadism is far from having been eradicated in the region. 

The US withdrawal from Afghanistan, after 20 years of securing and attempting to build a viable state, has unfortunately brought nothing new to light. Since 1945, the world's policeman has not been able to win a war abroad, in distant lands, nor to impose his political model. Much the same is true for other Western powers like France. Its presence in the Sahel, in the three border area, as part of Operation Barkhane unfortunately seems doomed from the start. The Ministry of Defense specifies the initial objectives of the French presence in the region as follows: "France's Sahelian strategy aims for partner states to acquire the capacity to ensure their security independently. It is based on a comprehensive approach (political, security and development) whose military component is supported by Operation Barkhane, led by the French armies. "

Jihadism in the Sahel is more present than ever, even if it was partly contained Of course, but the death of a new French soldier yesterday, after that barely three weeks ago of Maxime Blaxo, who had greatly moved the This opinion puts the legitimacy and meaning of these operations on the spot back to the forefront, while since 2013, 57 soldiers have been killed in the Sahel. Marshal des Logis, Adrien Quélin, died at the age of 29 “by accident” we are told on the French military base in Timbuktu. Can we still speak of an accident when Operation Barkhane is increasingly contested in France and Paris is torn between leaving and staying? In both cases, alas, the failure is obvious because jihadism in the Sahel is more present than ever, even if it has been partly contained, but more invigorated than ever, pushed by states that are bankrupt or too weak to resist. their inexorable push. In his book A Lost War, France in the Sahel (1), Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos perfectly sums up the origins of the operation: "January 2013: the French army intervenes in Mali. This is his biggest foreign military operation since the Algerian war. François Hollande had however announced that France would not intervene. The original aim was only to support a possible United Nations peace operation to restore order. But after the capture by the jihadists of Timbuktu, Gao, Kidal, we must act otherwise, they say, [after the French departure], Bamako could fall. 

All "Sahelistan" would be in the hands of madmen of God ". Left to its own devices, France then found itself in its traditional geopolitical backyard in Africa to try to contain the jihadist hydra in vain. And it is now clear that the day Paris flees, as Washington did from Kabul, Bamako will fall like the string of strategic towns in the area. This is inevitable as Islamist determination is self-sustaining precisely with a Western presence and resistance to the regional order that these jihadists intend to impose in the long term.

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