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Chapters:
0:00 The Situation
1:35 Rebel Offensive
2:35 French Intervention
4:30 Task Force Doctrine
5:50 Emergency Deployments
7:23 France on the Attack
14:47 Takeaways

Sources:
• Consultation with Op Serval veteran
• "France's War in Mali: Lessons for an Expeditionary Army" by Michael Shurkin (RAND)
• "Operation Serval: Another Beau Geste of France in SubSaharan Africa?" by Lt. Gen. Olivier Tramond and Lt. Col. Philippe Seigneur (French Army)
• "What It Means to Be Expeditionary: A Look at the French Army in Africa" by Michael Shurkin (RAND)
• INF 223 "Manuel d'emploi des groupement tactique interarmes a dominante infanterie" (Operating Manual for the Infantry Dominant Combined Arms Battle Group), French Army, 2001
• Various French language news articles published in 2013