The number of soldiers deployed as part of Operation Sentinel will return to 3,000.
The workforce had been increased to 7,000 at the end of October following the attack on the Basilica of Nice.
This downsizing follows the drop in early March of the Vigipirate alert level on the national territory to the level of "attack risk" against a previous level of "emergency attack".
The number of soldiers deployed in France as part of Operation Sentinel, increased to 7,000 last fall after an attack in the Basilica of Nice, will drop to 3,000, the military staff told AFP on Monday. armies.
This downsizing, revealed by the specialist blog Le Mamouth, follows the drop in early March of the level of Vigipirate alert on the national territory to the level "risk of attack" against a previous level of "emergency attack".
"This level of alert attests to a high level of threat, but less than at the end of 2020", specifies the government's website.
"Sentinel is a burden to manage. We are in the process of adapting it"
President Emmanuel Macron announced at the end of October the passage of Sentinel from 3,000 to 7,000 men after the "Islamist terrorist" attack in the Notre-Dame basilica in Nice, which left three dead.
"Sentinel is a burden to manage. We are in the process of adapting it", had confided earlier Monday the commander of the land forces, General Vincent Guionie, during a meeting with some journalists in Lille.
"It is estimated that the effect of strengthening Sentinel has a reinsurance impact between 4 and 6 weeks. Beyond that, it is less true," he argued.
"The armies remain involved in the long term in the fight against terrorism"
"The armies remain involved in the long term in the fight against terrorism" on the national territory, but "this involvement must be permanently adapted to the threat", commented the general.
However "1,500 (soldiers) deployed within the framework of Sentinel does not pose a difficulty. 3,000, it is managed, 7,000 we can hold it but it creates a real constraint", he underlined, while the army of Earth is preparing for future harsher, so-called high intensity conflicts, which require a large volume of men and equipment.
"Operation Sentinel, very reactive, remains in a position to reinforce, at the request of the government, this 'permanent operational device'" in the event of an evolution of the threat, specifies the staff.
Some 4,000 soldiers can be deployed within a few days, including 1,000 in less than 48 hours.
The Sentinel device, deployed in the aftermath of the January 2015 attacks in France to face the terrorist threat and protect the "sensitive points" of the territory, had already reached 7,000 men between 2015 and 2017. The numbers rose to 10,000 by two times, after the January 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris, and after the Nice one on the Promenade des Anglais in July 2016.