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Maritime spaces faced with the triptych of competition-contestation-clash.

In October 2021, General Burkhard, Chief of the Defence Staff, presented his "strategic vision". He warned of a profound change in the strategic context...
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Lt-Gen Benoît Durieux: "Total war forbids any subsequent peace".

Total war is a highly topical issue, yet it is an ill-defined concept: absolute war, high-intensity war, major war... Lieutenant General...
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Jean Peeters :
"cybersecurity, far from being a given, must remain an objective".

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Alexandra Goujon: "Ukraine, between subject and object of History".

For its first strategic debate since the start of the academic year, the IHEDN has chosen a topical subject: Ukraine. Alexandra Goujon is the author of Ukraine from independence to...
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"Maritime issues directly affect our populations".

Vice-admiral (2s) Gérard Valin is head of the maritime issues and strategies major at the Institut des hautes études de défense nationale...
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Marc Watin-Augouard :
"cyber-security will increase in quantity and quality".

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