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Sakatz (on top of the jeep), a Roumanian man enrolled in the French Foreign legion, going to take part in the building of a Forward Operating Base, an excercice on guerilla war, in an environment very similar to the one encountered, for example, in Afghanistan.. French soldiers in a camouflaged jeep. The Foreign Legion, a unit of the French army, sets off on an anti-guerrilla exercise. .Djibouti offers the ideal terrain—it is hot and mountainous, just like Afghanistan...The geostrategical and geopolitical importance of the Republic of Djibouti, located on the Horn of Africa, by the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, and bordered by Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia.

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Sakatz (on top of the jeep), a Roumanian man enrolled in the French Foreign legion, going to take part in the building of a Forward Operating Base, an excercice on guerilla war, in an environment very similar to the one encountered, for example, in Afghanistan..  French soldiers in a camouflaged jeep. The Foreign Legion, a unit of the French army, sets off on an anti-guerrilla exercise. .Djibouti offers the ideal terrain—it is hot and mountainous, just like Afghanistan...The geostrategical and geopolitical importance of the Republic of Djibouti, located on the Horn of Africa, by the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, and bordered by Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia.