Unscrupulous and infallible soldier, intelligent tactician, is the robot soldier the military revolution of tomorrow that technological evolution seems to logically prepare? For the author of this article, it is unlikely. Over-abundant robotization appears to be a technological headlong rush. Far from providing a solution to the strategic impasse in which Western armies find themselves against techno-guerrillas and terrorist groups, it accentuates the gap between ways of fighting and increasingly favours the abandonment of conventional combat by the adversary for asymmetrical combat.

Maintenance management, the result of much research in recent years, is currently evolving in the private sector towards a global system of industrial asset management, focused on the life cycle and including support, called asset management.

The implementation of these new standards within the military institution could significantly improve the objectives of the land equipment MCO.