The U.S. PentagonFrance Gets 'Pentagon à a Française' Bunker In Paris -- The Telegraph
France's defence minister on Thursday unveiled plans for a "Pentagon à la française", a centralised command and control centre based in Paris complete with bunker.
The defence ministry centre will bring together 10,000 staff from 15 separate command centres of France's air, land and sea forces into one compound in the south of Paris known as "le Pentagone".
The building, to be complete by 2014, will be a "major architectural gesture" and one "worthy of the 21st century and of the planet's fourth military power," said Hervé Morin, the defence minister.
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My Comment: It seems that France's Pentagon will be built more for architecture .... than for military functionality.
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