E. Chiva: "The Directorate General for Armaments must shed light on the future".

Emmanuel Chiva, appointed Delegate General for Armaments this summer, gave his views on the major issues facing the sector in the current context at the IHEDN on 13 October. Recalling the origins and missions of the French Defence Procurement Agency (DGA), Emmanuel Chiva details the threats and challenges ahead. "We have to invest in multiple fields", he explains, citing the technological breakthroughs that are set to become geostrategic breakthroughs.
Stopover in Toulon for the "Maritime issues and strategies" major in the 2e IHEDN national session

Following the launch of the module on the players and resources involved in strategy, the students in the "Maritime Issues and Strategies" major set sail for Toulon to meet the players involved in operations at sea and find out about their resources.
Taking the measure of artificial intelligence
The article summarises the main structuring trends linked to artificial intelligence, including asymmetric relations between the private and public sectors and the interweaving of technological and geopolitical issues. STORCHAN Victor, NOIRY Nathan, Le Grand continent, 18 November 2022. See
NATO Colloquium: Perceptions of the Strategic Landscape and Technological Implications
IRSEM and NATO Defense College.
Submarine cables: indispensable, invisible... vulnerable?
Echo with Camille MOREL, Doctor of Public Law, Centre d'études stratégiques de la Marine, 18 November 2022.
DRC, Central African Republic: the failure of the UN model
Cultures Monde with Séverine AUTESSERRE, professor at Columbia University, Thierry VIRCOULON, associate researcher at Ifri, Roland MARCHAL, researcher at Sciences Po Paris, 18 November 2022. Listen ►
Syria beyond the war. History, politics and society

The book reviews the major themes relating to Syria's history, society and international relations, not forgetting the crisis that began in 2001. The author, a French political scientist who has been working on these issues for several years, deconstructs a number of preconceived ideas about the country in a well-argued manner. TANNOUS Manon-Nour, La Syrie au-delà de la [...]
The Nations of NATO. Shaping the Alliance's Relevance and Cohesion

Edited by the Director of the Research Division at the Nato College, this collective work looks at the policies of some of the Member States within the organisation. It analyses their strategic cultures, their decision-making processes in the field of defence and their relations with the United States. TARDY Thierry (ed.), Oxford, Oxford University Press, [...]
The power of armies, armies in power

The latest issue of Confluences Méditerranée focuses on the armies and security services of the Maghreb, Near and Middle East states. The contributions focus on civil-military relations, the adaptation of security forces in the face of the political and socio-economic turbulence of the last ten years, and the sociological changes in armies [...].
By iron and fire. Fighting in the Atlantic (16th-17th centuries)

This book explores how environmental and climate issues are taken into account in the defence sector in France and the United States. Alexandre JUBELIN, Paris, Passé composés, 2022