WarTime. Temporality and the Decline of Western Military Power

The end of the Cold War locked the Western world into a new chrono-strategic paradigm (wartime paradigm) with two characteristics: a praise for speed at the expense of patience, and a reduction of war to a simple expeditionary risk management tool.

Largely driven by the United States, this paradigm has been shaping the way operations are conducted, our capability choices and our defence architecture for three decades. In order to deal with changes in the nature of conflict (denial of access on the one hand, strategies of ambiguity on the other), it seems essential to renew our chrono-strategy by taking into account all the dimensions of time in warfare (duration, frequency, sequence and opportunity).