Your must-haves for defence and security
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Understanding major geopolitical shifts, gaining a thorough understanding of key texts and anticipating the year’s key events: to mark the start of the academic year, the IHEDN has compiled all the essential reference documents needed to inform strategic thinking into a single dossier.
Against the backdrop of a constantly changing international landscape and the growing importance of sovereignty issues, a firm grasp of the key principles of defence is more essential than ever. Whether you are a student, a professional in the sector, a researcher or a committed citizen, the IHEDN offers you this essential compendium to help you start the year with the best possible insight:
Key strategic and analytical documents:
Find the National Strategic Review (RNS 2025): Defence Guidelines as well as The Year of National Defence (ADN 2027), the standard reference work offering a comprehensive analysis of major geopolitical events and issues of sovereignty.
Reference data
Take a look at the Defence Key Figures for an overview of the resources, forces and economic challenges facing our defence sector
Institutional anchoring
Discover the Historical Booklet on the École Militaire, an iconic centre of military and republican thought.
The 2026–2027 calendar
Find the full programme of IHEDN activities (lectures, debates, training courses, conferences) so you don’t miss any of the Institute’s highlights.
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