France's top military adviser has sparked a storm with a chilling prediction about the nation's future, leaving political leaders and citizens reeling.

Gen Fabien Mandon, France's newly appointed chief of the defence staff and President Emmanuel Macron's closest military adviser, has triggered a political firestorm with his stark warning that the country must be ready to "lose its children" in a potential war with Russia within the next "three to four years."

The dramatic language employed by the 56-year-old general has drawn accusations of warmongering and frightening France's youth from across the political spectrum, reports The Telegraph.

In an address to the nation's mayors on Wednesday, Gen Mandon asserted that while France possesses the "economic and demographic strength" to

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