After a week of reflections and analyses on defence, security and international relations issues, the 5e cycle for civil servants recently assigned to the Ministry of the Armed Forces, organised by the IHEDN, ended on Friday 13 May at the École Militaire.
For five days, as part of their ongoing training and integration programme, the 34 managers from the Ministry of the Armed Forces took part in a series of high-level conferences and debates focusing on the analysis of contemporary strategic issues, the development of their knowledge of the defence system and the armed forces, and putting international cooperation and conflicts into perspective.
The participants also visited Air Force Base 107 at Vélizy-Villacoublay. They were able to discover a technical and aeronautical support squadron, a helicopter squadron and an intervention group specialising in the neutralisation and detection of explosive devices.
Finally, as part of the work of the four committees, the young attachés were given the opportunity to reflect on a topical issue relating to defence and national security. This work was presented orally at the end of the cycle, in the presence of Comptroller General of the Armed Forces Thibaut de Vanssay de BlavousDirector of Human Resources at the Ministry of the Army and Defence Prefect Denis ConusDeputy Director of IHEDN.
