Their largest border is shared with Brazil
I doubt the condition of the exercise in the North-East of France are transferable there.
(Although, don't get me wrong, I'm pretty sure there are people in the French army with some ideas about how to wage war in a tropical forest.)
That being said, it's still nice to have been alive during a span of ~50 years without any actual full-on people-are-killed-in-your-neighboorhood warfare.