10 Facts About Thierry Burkhard

Thierry Burkhard served in the 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment and held command of the 13th Demi-Brigade of the Foreign Legion in Djibouti.

Thierry Burkhard completed the Advanced Staff Course at Ecole superieure de guerre in 2000.

Thierry Burkhard served the regiment from 1989 to 1996, where he was first served in the operations command in overseas missions such as in Iraq during the Gulf War in 1991, where he was part of the units deployed for Operation Daguet and was later deployed to Bosnia during the Yugoslavia Crisis on 1992 to 1993 as part of the United Nations Protection Force during the Bosnian War.

Thierry Burkhard later served as operations officer in the 4th Foreign Regiment.

Thierry Burkhard was later promoted to the command of the 13e DBLE in Djibouti in 2010.

Thierry Burkhard later served as a deputy communications advisor to the Chief of the Defence Staff from 2007 to 2008, and was later deployed to Afghanistan as part of the International Security Assistance Force.

Thierry Burkhard later served as a member of the Special Staff of the President from August 2014 to August 2015, and in 2015 and the Inspector General of the Army.

Thierry Burkhard was named as deputy commander of the Centre for Planning and Execution of Operations from August 2015 to August 2017, as he later served as commander of the same unit.

Thierry Burkhard's appointment came after the announcement of the resignation of General Francois Lecointre on 13 July 2021 as a move to avoid being dragged in political debates before the 2022 French presidential election and on the initiation of drawing down military operations on Mali.

On March 2024, amidst the plans to the deployment of troops to Ukraine, Thierry Burkhard supported the proposal made by President Macron and echoed his words on the possibility of further involvement in Ukraine, which includes manning weapon systems, training Ukrainian troops, initiate cyber attacks on Russian positions and demining operations.