What it wants to avoid is a parallel military structure acting outside its control.
NATO's military structure, the West's war over Kosovo, and anything else that might impinge on French sovereignty.
France, an advocate of more purely European defence structures, has even rejoined the military structure of Nato.
Even when fully within NATO's military structure, France will still retain its independent nuclear capability and defence autonomy.
In 1966, he announced France's withdrawal from the military structure of NATO and ordered all NATO military installations to leave French territory.
The 2006 QDR already foresaw that America had to deal with a range of crises, and Mr Gates's review only tinkers with America's military structure.
NATO's integrated military structure, could provide a boost to the alliance.
Paris has always resented Washington's post-World War II dominance in Western Europe, which is why Charles de Gaulle pulled France out of NATO's military structure in the mid-1960s.
Even before France rejoined NATO's integrated military structure last year, British and French forces had frequently worked and fought together under the command of one or other country.
The reason: to start enlarging the 16-nation defense alliance and to discuss reorganizing the alliance's military structure to take into account the new challenges of the post-Cold War period.
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NATO's integrated military structure is harder than leaving it.
And he has a decent foreign-policy record, from taking France back into NATO's military structure to his intervention in the 2008 Russian-Georgian war and his joint leadership of the campaign against Libya.
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Architect Sir Norman Foster elegantly combined a refurbished British-era military structure surrounded by manicured green lawns with curved, metal-clad modern hotel buildings and villas that tumble down a hillside to the South China Sea.
If France no longer seems to command the world's attention as it did a few years ago, could this be because it lost its singularity when Mr Sarkozy returned the country fully to NATO in 2009, reversing Charles de Gaulle's 1966 withdrawal from its military structure?
The other thing, though, that I would say was that I still sometimes have to really work hard to grasp the magnitude and the scope of what it is that we are doing in trying to help re-establish, in a really quite a short period of time, a country's entire military structure.
Without a doubt, AFRICOM is an essential reform in our global military command structure.
So Mr Sarkozy talks about coming out of the Schengen agreement, Ms le Pen of ditching the euro, Mr Hollande of renegotiating the EU's budgetary rules, and Mr Melenchon of sidestepping international markets or Nato's military command structure.
That is why the Constitution gives the Congress the power to shape and structure the military.
Some are just as patriotic as anyone but just cannot take the rigid structure of the military.
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This regimented structure is the foundation of military effectiveness.
Built in 1803 and fronted by Doric columns, the structure was originally designed to house military orphans.
The process began in the early 1990s, at the very top of the armed forces, when politicians pushed the military to streamline its command-and-control structure.
"It is a command structure that is aiming to help provide military assistance to African nations so African nations are more capable of dealing with Africa's conflicts - like peacekeeping training, " he said.
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British military advisers - visible around the city, but not talking to journalists - are among those trying to help the National Transitional Council in Benghazi to establish what many see as a prerequisite for any successful military push against Gaddafi loyalists - a clear command structure.
Monika Chiang fused military shapes with more floaty pieces to create a balance between structure and softness.
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France is the only power among NATO's 19 allies whose military forces are not part of the alliance's integrated command structure.
Brown said the building, "like many other pre-existing buildings in Iraq, had not been grounded or bonded by the contractors who built the structure, " and she said KBR had warned the military about the hazard nine months before Maseth died.
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After meeting America's secretary of state, Colin Powell, on Thursday, and Britain's foreign secretary, Jack Straw, on Friday, Mr Annan acknowledged that diplomats were discussing the possibility of agreeing a multinational force to guard UN sites and staff, with a separate command structure but in some way under the influence of the American military.
If the military has standardized on Microsoft and is only now moving to a consolidated directory structure they have a long road ahead of them in modernizing their IT operations.
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