Opening of the first joint cycle between the Youth Cycle and the Business Intelligence Cycle!
On Monday 20 October 2025, the IHEDN inaugurated the 156ᵉ Cycle Jeunes en intelligence économique (IE) at the École militaire. The first to be organised in synergy between two of our sessions, marking a major development in the Institute's training strategy.
A look back at the International Armament Session Latin America 2025
From 29 September to 3 October 2025, the Institut des hautes études de défense nationale (IHEDN) hosted the Latin America International Armaments Session (SIAMLAT) in Paris, organised in partnership with the Direction générale de l'armement (DGA).
Opening of the 5e IHEDN national session
On 16 and 17 September 2025, IHEDN launched the 5e national session (SN5) with 290 students from all walks of life. For ten months, they will follow a course of strategic training and collective reflection, marked from the start of the academic year by high-level presentations and discussions on major defence and security issues.
Opening 245e session in the Occitanie region
The 245th regional session of the Institut des hautes études de défense nationale (IHEDN) opened in Nîmes. For four weeks, students will explore the major issues in national defence and security through lectures, visits and group work.
Opening of the 242e regional session in Beauvais
The 242nd regional session of the Institut des hautes études de défense nationale has opened in the Hauts-de-France region at the Préfecture de l'Oise in Beauvais. Over a four-week period, 45 students from a wide range of backgrounds will have the opportunity to explore the major strategic challenges of our time, find out how the armed forces operate and get to grips with national defence and security issues, through a programme combining visits to strategic sites, high-level lectures and group work.
American power, war in the age of AI, nuclear deterrence... a look back at a year of strategic debates
These monthly IHEDN conferences are an opportunity for the author of a recent work in the field of defence and security to highlight the main contributions of his or her work and to enrich reflection on current international affairs.
IHEDN auditors' association presidents' day: between transmission and commitment
Meeting in Paris, the presidents of the auditors' associations of the Institut des hautes études de défense nationale shared a day dedicated to cohesion and the spirit of defence, as Union-IHEDN celebrates its 50th anniversary.
Closing of the 4th national session of the IHEDN
After an intense year of training marked by committee work, field visits and high-level conferences, the auditors of the 4th national session of the IHEDN met on 20 June 2025 at the École Militaire for a closing day rich in exchanges, concluded by an address from the Prime Minister, François Bayrou.
Strategic mission to the United Arab Emirates for IHEDN auditors
Bilateral meetings, geostrategic issues, cultural cooperation: the students in the "Maritime Issues and Strategies" major at the IHEDN national session ended their training with a four-day study visit to the United Arab Emirates.
Vincent Rigaud (Ifremer): "The deep seabed, a major strategic challenge".
On the occasion of the Third United Nations Conference on the Oceans (UNOC 3) in Nice and a course in Economic and Strategic Intelligence at the IHEDN in Marseille, the site director of the French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (Ifremer) looks back at the growing importance of the deep sea and undersea cables, the main theme of this course.
