The Land Staff has just produced a document that deserves a careful reading by all those who remain attached to the ambitions and values that the EMSST has held since its origins. Action Terrestre Future is a text of high editorial quality.

It provides a forward-looking vision of threats and commitments on land. Above all, it is intended to be the vector of a capability development approach, to stimulate doctrinal innovation within the forces, and to guide the entire army ecosystem: research centres, industrialists, institutional partners, etc. It is also intended to be a tool for the development of the army's capabilities.

The conceptual advance of this document lies in the implementation of evidence of eight factors of operational superiority which, in interposed between the immutable principles of warfare and engineering... capacity (DORESE for specialists!), allow for a better understand the nature of the changes to be made in order to respond to assessment of the foreseeable operational context.

Understanding, cooperation, agility, mass, endurance, strength morality, influence and performance of the command are the eight factors that the Army intends to develop in the near future, ...along lines that Future Land Action is detailing in some detail.

Its reading shows to what extent the EMSST will have a major role to play for the success of this ambition. It is the EMSST that will provide the army army with officers capable of understanding the human and cultural environments, to design the systems facilitating this understanding and allowing cooperation and tactical agility all the way through. by increasing command performance. Likewise, our channels of the humanities, economics and armaments will provide the possible to reach this "enduring mass" which becomes an element central to the vision of ground engagement.

Finally, the experience of past commitments shows that if the contact command is the main actor of the moral forces, it is all the more effective there that it is based on legal, ethical and psychological frameworks that the specialists trained by the EMSST contribute to building.

At a time when the French Army is so strongly marking its will to to relaunch the preparation of its future, MINERVE can only rejoice of the prospects that this approach opens up for the EMSST, which will have to once again adapt in its fields of study and schooling. to meet its permanent mission: to provide the army with operational staff capable of understanding and mastering all the facets of its capability requirements.

You can find Action Terrestre Future on the MINERVE website. (www.asso-minerve.fr).

I recommend you to read it again, and I wish you all the best. to spend a happy holiday season and by presenting you with a little in advance all my wishes for health, happiness and success. for 2017, for you and all your loved ones.

Editorial by the President
Lieutenant General Jean-Tristan VERNA
The EMSST at the heart of Future Earth Action