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IHEDN-Les barrages comme cibles de guerre, aujourd’hui comme hier

Dams as targets of war, today as in the past

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Well before the destruction of the Ukrainian Kakhovka dam on 6 June, two large-scale military operations against this type of structure took place in the middle of...
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Clotilde Champeyrache : « Les mafias développent une souveraineté parasite de celle de l’Etat »

Clotilde Champeyrache: "The mafias are developing a form of sovereignty that is parasitic on that of the State".

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Organised crime in general, and mafias in particular, threaten the stability of states and societies. Economist and criminologist Clotilde...
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The opportunities and limits of OSINT, the new sinews of war

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The age of the mass Internet has popularised open-source intelligence, accessible to everyone. Three experts in this field have summarised...
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Trois scénarii possibles pour une contre-offensive ukrainienne

Three possible scenarios for a Ukrainian counter-offensive

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Interview with researchers Philippe Gros and Vincent Tourret, authors of a paper for the Fondation pour la recherche stratégique (French Foundation for Strategic Research) which provides an interim assessment of the...
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Lundis de l’IHEDN : « L’art opératif » russe dévoilé

Russian "operative art" unveiled

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Benoist Bihan and Jean Lopez presented their book "Conduire la guerre: entretiens sur l'art opératif" at the IHEDN strategic debates ....
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LUNDIS de l'IHEDN - Décryptage-Le nouveau visage de la guerre

The new face of war

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Holy war, cold war, total war, hybrid war, high-intensity war... War takes on such changing forms that Clausewitz compared it to...
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