{"id":26531,"date":"2022-10-14T12:18:40","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T11:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihedn.fr\/?p=26531"},"modified":"2025-05-27T08:31:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T07:31:14","slug":"lamiral-raoul-castex-le-stratege-naval-francais-du-xxe-siecle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ihedn.fr\/en\/notre-histoire\/lamiral-raoul-castex-le-stratege-naval-francais-du-xxe-siecle\/","title":{"rendered":"Admiral Raoul Castex, the French naval strategist of the 20th century<sup>e<\/sup> century"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"26531\" class=\"elementor elementor-26531\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-49b0c07 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"49b0c07\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7ea7049 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7ea7049\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #034b7b;\"><strong>D\u00e8s 1937, le vice-amiral Raoul Castex conclut au n\u00e9cessaire d\u00e9cloisonnement du travail des civils et des militaires pour pr\u00e9parer le pays aux dangers futurs. A l\u2019occasion d\u2019Euronaval, nous vous proposons de revenir sur le parcours de cet illustre marin.<\/strong><br \/><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c1c0358 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c1c0358\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0Le vice-amiral Raoul Castex est le premier directeur du Coll\u00e8ge des hautes \u00e9tudes de d\u00e9fense nationale entre 1936 et 1939, \u00ab\u00a0l\u2019anc\u00eatre\u00a0\u00bb de l\u2019IHEDN. Sorti major de sa promotion de l\u2019\u00c9cole navale et de l\u2019\u00c9cole sup\u00e9rieure d\u2019application, Raoul Castex se rend c\u00e9l\u00e8bre avec la publication de plusieurs ouvrages sur <span style=\"color: #034b7b;\"><strong>la d\u00e9fense de l\u2019Indochine et la mont\u00e9e en puissance du Japon<\/strong><\/span>. Particuli\u00e8rement attentif aux questions d\u2019enseignement, Castex pr\u00f4ne dans son ouvrage <em>Le Grand \u00c9tat-major naval, <\/em>publi\u00e9 en 1909, \u00ab\u00a0une p\u00e9n\u00e9tration intellectuelle r\u00e9ciproque [unissant] nos deux arm\u00e9es de terre et de mer et que ces deux branches de la d\u00e9fense nationale cessassent de s\u2019ignorer\u00a0\u00bb. Cette id\u00e9e marque durablement sa r\u00e9flexion sur les relations politico-militaires de la III<sup>e<\/sup> R\u00e9publique. Inspir\u00e9 par les travaux d\u2019Alfred Mahan et se m\u00e9fiant des th\u00e9ories de la Jeune \u00e9cole, Castex appara\u00eet comme le principal penseur de <span style=\"color: #034b7b;\"><strong>la<\/strong> <strong>strat\u00e9gie maritime fran\u00e7aise de l\u2019entre-deux-guerres<\/strong><\/span>, avec la publication des <em>Th\u00e9ories strat\u00e9giques<\/em>, son \u0153uvre majeure publi\u00e9e en cinq volumes entre 1929 et 1935. Cette carri\u00e8re de marin et d\u2019\u00e9crivain lui permet d\u2019acc\u00e9der au commandement du Centre des hautes \u00e9tudes navales (CHEN) et de l\u2019\u00c9cole sup\u00e9rieure de Guerre navale entre 1932 et 1934, puis entre 1935 et 1937. En parall\u00e8le, il devient le premier directeur du CHEDN en ao\u00fbt 1936 gr\u00e2ce au soutien d\u2019\u00c9douard Daladier, alors ministre de la d\u00e9fense nationale et de la guerre. Durant son mandat, il b\u00e2tit une m\u00e9thode d\u2019enseignement bas\u00e9e sur un cycle de conf\u00e9rences, des visites d\u2019\u00e9tudes, des travaux en communs et des exercices pour les auditeurs civils et militaires. Ainsi, le 3 novembre 1937, le vice-amiral Raoul Castex expose <span style=\"color: #034b7b;\"><strong>sa vision du concept de d\u00e9fense nationale<\/strong><\/span> lors de la \u00ab Conf\u00e9rence d\u2019introduction \u00bb de la deuxi\u00e8me session du CHEDN. Se rem\u00e9morant un \u00ab exercice combin\u00e9 qui eut lieu r\u00e9cemment au Centre des hautes \u00e9tudes militaires [CHEM] \u00bb, o\u00f9 participaient \u00ab c\u00f4te \u00e0 c\u00f4te les repr\u00e9sentants des trois arm\u00e9es \u00bb, il constate qu\u2019une approche seulement militaire a r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9 rapidement ses limites.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>\u00ab \u00c0 la critique, on fut amen\u00e9, in\u00e9vitablement, \u00e0 \u00e9largir quelque peu le d\u00e9bat et \u00e0 parler politique ext\u00e9rieure ; [\u2026] par malheur, le diplomate, non invit\u00e9, manqua \u00e0 la r\u00e9union. On en arriva de m\u00eame [\u2026] \u00e0 faire intervenir dans la discussion la situation d\u00e9mographique et militaires de l\u2019Afrique occidentale, le probl\u00e8me du Transsaharien\u2026 On chercha des yeux le colonial ; il n\u2019\u00e9tait pas l\u00e0. Enfin, \u00e0 propos des communications maritimes et de leur protection, on \u00e9pilogue sur l\u2019importance respective des diverses lignes de transport, sur les importations, les achats \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9tranger [&#8230;]. Il nous aurait fallu [\u2026] les lumi\u00e8res d\u2019un \u00e9conomiste et nous d\u00e9plor\u00e2mes son absence. \u00bb<\/em><\/p><p style=\"text-align: left;\">Dans cette optique, le nouveau CHEDN appara\u00eet comme une pi\u00e8ce centrale :<em> \u00ab Personnellement, j\u2019ai cess\u00e9 en entrant ici, de me consid\u00e9rer exclusivement comme marin. J\u2019ai d\u00e9pouill\u00e9 ma carapace ancienne. J\u2019ai perdu mon sexe, si j\u2019ose dire. La Marine ne para\u00eet ni plus ni moins importante que les autres branches. L\u2019ensemble seul m\u2019int\u00e9resse. \u00bb<\/em><\/p><p style=\"text-align: left;\">Une r\u00e9flexion toujours d\u2019actualit\u00e9.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><span style=\"color: #c80a23;\">Episode 1<\/span><\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nAs early as 1937, Vice-Admiral Raoul Castex concluded that it was necessary to decompartmentalise the work of civilians and the military in order to prepare the country for future dangers. To coincide with Euronaval, we take a look back at the career of this illustrious sailor.  <\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26668,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[254],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-notre-histoire"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>L\u2019amiral Raoul Castex, le strat\u00e8ge naval fran\u00e7ais du XXe si\u00e8cle - L&#039;IHEDN : Institut des hautes \u00e9tudes de d\u00e9fense nationale<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"D\u00e8s 1937, le vice-amiral Raoul Castex conclut au n\u00e9cessaire d\u00e9cloisonnement du travail des civils et des militaires pour pr\u00e9parer le pays aux dangers futurs. 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