法国2022～2025年被迫相继从马里、布基纳法索、尼日尔、乍得、科特迪瓦和塞内加尔撤军，进入战略防御期。为构建“新型军事伙伴关系”，2024年法国明确了在西非的新军事政策，主要包括保持轻型灵活性军事存在，加强非洲国家能力建设以及多样化合作网络，并将科特迪瓦、贝宁和尼日利亚视为未来关键的安全合作伙伴。但是，新模式并不意味着法国找到了一条真正的新安全合作之路，而且新模式与新伙伴始终受到法国对外战略方向、西非政治安全局势、非洲国家新主权主义浪潮以及域外力量介入的强烈影响。
From 2022 to 2025，France was forced to withdraw its troops from Mali，Burkina Faso，Niger，Chad，Côte d’Ivoire and Senegal successively and entered a strategic defense period. In order to build a “New Military Partnership”，in 2024，France clarified its new military policy in West Africa，mainly including maintaining a light and flexible military presence，strengthening the capacity building of African countries，and diversifying the cooperation network. It also regards Côte d’Ivoire，Benin and Nigeria as key security cooperation partners in the future. However，the new model does not mean that France has found a real new path for Franco-African Security Cooperation，and the new model is always strongly influenced by France’s foreign strategic direction，the political and security situation in West Africa，the African neo-sovereigntism，and the engagement of extraterritorial forces.
