Never again! The numerous incidents that took place in mid-November during the transit of a large military convoy of Operation Barkhane in Burkina Faso and Niger were not only a logistical failure for the French military general staff, but also a PR disaster, with the local, French and international media reporting at length on the hostility of the local population towards the French military presence in the Sahel. For the past month, the "J4" small logistics unit of the Operations Planning and Control