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Defense Policy and Armed Forces

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As military competition increases, nations are adapting their defense policies and transforming their armed forces. Doctrine, organization, equipment and training are key to understanding the evolution of land, air and naval forces.

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The French Strategy of the Saarland. A German Federal State on the Way to a Living European Multilingualism

Date de publication
30 March 2022
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With the France Strategy, Saarland set out in 2014 to become an efficient multilingual German-French region within a generation.

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A “New Era”? Toward a Realignment of German Foreign Policy after the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

Date de publication
07 March 2022
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s speech to the Bundestag on February 27, 2022, announced a new orientation in foreign policy and challenged the principles that had been the consensus in Germany for the past thirty years.

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French Special Operations What Is Their Role in the Context of Great-Power Competition?

Date de publication
27 January 2022
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The year 2022 marks thirty years since the creation of the Commandement des operations spéciales (COS, Special Operations Command). Those three decades have been dominated by missions carried out in volatile environments, most often against irregular adversaries, primarily terrorist groups.

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The French Military's Perception of the Turkish Military and Turkey's Expansion in the Eastern Mediterranean

Date de publication
18 November 2021
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In the summer of 2020, the Central and Eastern Mediterranean became the center of unusual tensions between France and Turkey. Given that these tensions were also military, which is uncommon for the two countries, the perception that the French military has of Turkey’s army and its doctrine is particularly relevant to address.

Europe/United States: 50 Shades of Dependence

Date de publication
07 September 2021
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Is Joe Biden’s United States (US) returning to multilateral, traditional diplomacy? This more open stance does not eliminate either its domestic problems or the divergence in interests separating the US from the Europeans: how will open diplomacy fit in with the priority of defending US interests? Will Washington organize a broad anti-Chinese coalition that the Europeans are opposed to? Will sanctions with their resulting effects remain at the heart of US strategy? Will the Europeans be able to assert their sovereignty in the key area of new technologies against the US giants?

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Hypersonic Weapons: What Are the Challenges for the Armed Forces?

Date de publication
18 June 2021
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Hypersonic systems are becoming attributes of power for the states that design and implement them, at the risk of reviving an arms race.

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The regional economic order: Four scenarios

Date de publication
28 May 2021
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What will the economic order in the Indo-Pacific region look like twenty years from now? What are the major trends shaping it, and how are they likely to evolve in the near future?

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Circumstantial Pacifism: Political Parties and the Participation of the Bundeswehr in Foreign Operations

Date de publication
14 April 2021
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In Germany's parliamentary democracy, political parties play an important role in mandating Bundeswehr missions abroad and in overseeing their deployment. The political debate on these deployments is polarized between opponents, who are called “pacifists”, and supporters, who are called “militarists”.

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Réparer 2020 ou préparer 2030 ? L’entraînement des forces françaises à l’ère du combat multi-domaine

Date de publication
25 January 2021
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From basic training to the conduct of international exercises, operational readiness planning aim to make the components of military capabilities (equipment, doctrines, operational know-hows) consistent with the operational contracts decided at the strategic level. 

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French Defence Policy Since the End of the Cold War

Date de publication
28 December 2020
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With a look at evolutions over the past three decades, the thematic chapters cover French defense institutions and civil-military relations, the transformation of armed forces, nuclear deterrence, the defense industry, military interventions, and alliances.

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