Prénom de l'expert

Guillaume

Nom de l'expert

GARNIER

Associate Research Fellow, Security Studies Center, Ifri

Research Areas:

Defense foresight analysis
Strategic context
Conflicts and joint operations

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Security Studies Center

Guillaume Garnier is an Associate Research Fellow at Ifri's Security Studies Center. He was a Military Fellow whithin the Defense Research Unit at this Center from 2012 to 2014. He retired from the French Army as a Colonel in 2022. Initially an engineer officer in the Legion, he is graduated from the War School and holds a master degree of geopolitics from the French Institute of Geopolitics (Paris 8) .

More specifically, he has recently served in domains associated with intelligence, politico-military affairs and foresight analysis. He was assigned to various posts of coordination or conception, in France and abroad (Chad, Turkey, Belgium), and contributed to the French Defense Strategic Review of 2017, as head of office in the DGRIS (Directorate General for International Relations and Strategy).

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Publications

Studies

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“At the Other Side of the Hill”: The Benefits and False Promises of Battlefield Transparency

27 May 2024

Recent conflicts have highlighted a key characteristic of contemporary warfare, unprecedented in its scale and impact on the conduct of operations: “battlefield transparency”.

Pierre NÉRON-BANCEL Guillaume GARNIER

Studies

A soldier with an “eFP Battle Group” patch within NATO forces in Lithuania

France’s Place Within NATO: Toward a Strategic Aggiornamento?

27 June 2023

With a rapidly deteriorating security environment, a chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, internal disputes exploding into public view, and questions being raised about the scope of its security responsibilities, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) seemed to be in dire straits at the time of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022.

Guillaume GARNIER