Djibouti mission for POLDEF and ESM auditors from the national session

Friday 14 January 2022 Auditors from the 74th POLDEF major and the 7th ESM major have arrived in the Republic of Djibouti for their annual study visit. This trip gives IHEDN auditors the opportunity to find out first-hand about France's political and military objectives and challenges in this region [...].

Mission RENNES

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As part of the two-day seminar on cybersecurity, the IHEDN national session, majoring in "Armaments and the Defence Economy", visited Rennes on Friday 21 January. The session was welcomed at COMCYBER in the morning, where it was given a presentation of the 807th signals company (specialising in [...]

Defence players: the role of human capital in national sovereignty

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The aim of this report is to determine the role of the human capital of defence players (in the sense of knowledge and skills to be developed) in maintaining or even consolidating national sovereignty, which we have defined as the freedom to decide and the power to act based on a long-term strategy.

Defence for Europe: harmonising the capability response

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Committee 1
If we consider Europe as a geographical entity, its collective security rests on the two pillars of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), a politico-military alliance focused on the collective defence of its members, and the European Union (EU), a political and economic partnership that has extended its action to the security of its territory and its populations. In a changing geostrategic and political context (Brexit, the United States' Asian pivot, the global health crisis, etc.), European states have many different perceptions of European defence, especially given their different memberships in different organisations and their different post-World War II histories.

Apprenticeship tax

SUPPORT EXCELLENT TRAINING CONTRIBUTE TO THE PROMOTION OF DEFENCE CULTURE AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE Apprenticeship tax is a tax payable by companies subject to income tax or corporation tax, whatever their status. It helps to finance apprenticeships and technological and vocational training courses.

DIGITAL SOVEREIGNTY IN AN ERA OF U.S./CHINA OLIGOPOLIES

For its third seminar for 33 students, the 'Defence and Economic Security' (DSE) major addressed the issues of digital sovereignty and new technological frontiers. Today, information and communication technologies are at the heart of an international competition in which the United States and China are the main contenders. [...]