Operation Daguet is the collective code name for French military operations carried out in 1991 as part of the First Gulf War of 1990-1991. The immediate and official cause of the intervention was the incursion of Iraqi troops into the French embassy in Kuwait in 1990 and the attempt by the French government to push Iraqi troops out of Kuwait. The commander-in-chief of the French forces taking part in Operation Daguet was Gen. Michel Roquejeoffre , and these forces were composed of an improvised Division Daguet composed of subunits, primarily the 6th Light Mechanized Division, the 2nd Armored Division, the 4th Dragoon Regiment and units of the Foreign Legion. This division was transferred to Saudi Arabia at the turn of 1990/1991 and there it split into two tactical unions - the Western Group and the Eastern Group. Initially, the division operated independently and was subordinated only to the French command, but before the start of military operations, it was subordinated to the American command of the 18th Airborne Corps. In the course of the military operations of 1991, French units operated on the left wing of the Allied forces and closely cooperated primarily with subunits of the 82nd Airborne Division of the US Army, successfully attacking the city of As-Salam, and later the so-called Baghdad Highway.
Contemporary French Armed Forces (fr. Forces armees francaises) are made up of the army, the navy, the air force, the French National Gendarmerie and the National Guard. In terms of numbers, the most important component is the ground army (French Armee de Terre), whose armored forces have changed significantly since the end of World War II to the present day. Shortly after the end of World War II, the French armored forces, on the one hand, focused on relatively light equipment with high mobility, but with high firepower, an excellent example of which is the AMX-13 tank, and on the other, heavy vehicles from the USA - primarily M47 Patton vehicles. With time, however, France developed its own AMX-30 MBT and its subsequent modernization of the AMX30B2, which until the 1990s were the basic armament of French armored units and are still in active service. On the other hand, at the beginning of the 1990s, the French army introduced a 3rd generation tank called the Leclerc with a crew of 3 to the line. Armee de Terre currently has 254 Leclerc cars in the line.