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✅ Borders and border areas in sub-Saharan Africa: impossible to control? 2/2Published on 10/03/2020

General Military Review
le Capitaine de réserve Antonin Tisseron

Due to the transnational nature of conflicts on the African continent, the securing of cross-border areas has gradually emerged as a major issue for peace and security. Although they "are rarely the cause of threats", borders are in fact perceived as "places where dangers crystallize".109whether they come from turbulent populations or from outside. A seemingly self-evident concept, the border, in its current acceptance, is a historical construct inseparable from the birth of the modern state. It makes its control by means of various tools and strategies, as well as relations with neighbouring states, operational. That being said, geographers distinguish several spatial effects of the border: "that of a barrier, which is its raison d'être, but also that of an interface and that of territory. In the second case, the border merely filters and channels relations between spaces that would exist more diffusely without it.

✅ Borders and border areas in sub-Saharan Africa: an impossible control? 1/2Published on 09/03/2020

General Military Review
le Capitaine de réserve Antonin Tisseron

Due to the transnational nature of conflicts on the African continent, the securing of cross-border areas has gradually emerged as a major issue for peace and security. Although they "are rarely the cause of threats", borders are in fact perceived as "places where dangers crystallize".109whether they come from turbulent populations or from outside. A seemingly self-evident concept, the border, in its current acceptance, is a historical construction inseparable from the birth of the modern state. It makes its control by means of various tools and strategies, as well as relations with neighbouring states, operational. That being said, geographers distinguish several spatial effects of the border: "that of a barrier, which is its raison d'être, but also that of an interface and that of territory. In the second case, the border merely filters and channels relations between spaces that would exist more diffusely without it.

From the DeputyPublished on 05/03/2020

military-Earth thinking notebook
le Chef d’escadron Alexandre BADIN

An assistant is a person who has a role in a primarily official or state setting, a role that consists of assisting another person. Nevertheless, the assistant does not seem to be very present in the business world. At a time when the military apparatus tends to apply methods derived from civilian management, it would be a mistake or even a mistake to try to eliminate military assistants under the pretext of savings and rationalisation.

Army Museums: Military Identity in QuestionPublished on 04/03/2020

military-Earth thinking notebook
le Chef de bataillon Bertrand PHILIP de LABORIE

Army museums are at the heart of identity issues within the military community. They shed light on the needs, questions and evolution of this community.

The "core business" trapPublished on 03/03/2020

military-Earth thinking notebook
le Chef de bataillon Thomas LANUSSE-CAZALE

The use of a strategy of refocusing the military on its core operational business now seems obvious. However, such a move is not neutral from the point of view of the politico-military relationship. It is in fact a restrictive understanding of operations, which deprives the high military hierarchy of the real political role that war demands of it. The "refocusing" that forces the military to focus on operations is therefore unnatural because it reduces the military to a tool and profoundly changes the place of this body in the state apparatus.

A path to victoryPublished on 02/03/2020

Macedonia September - November 1918
Colonel Christophe de LAJUDIE

The first version of this short study was published in 2003, in English, in serial form, on the computer network of the European force of Operation CONCORDIA and NATO Headquarters Skopje (NHQS), under the title "A Path to Victory - The Allied Eastern Campaign in Macedonia, September-November 1918". The present version is only the French version, corrected and slightly reworked. The maps and sketches in particular, which constitute the essential part of this work, have been corrected and expanded.

The universal service and the social role of the officer. Do we still have to read Lyautey?Published on 27/02/2020

General Military Review No. 54
Monsieur Matthieu Meissonnier

After recalling the historical and social context of its publication, Mr. Matthieu Meissonnier shows why, twenty years after the suspension of conscription, and at a time when we are actively reflecting on the establishment of a universal national service, we should still read "On the social role of the officer in universal military service".

Learning to think about young officers in the 21st century: what can we learn from Foch's pedagogical principles?Published on 24/02/2020

Earth Thought Notebooks
le Colonel Fabrice CLÉE

Even if the thought, the ideas and the manner in which he professed them are still the subject of debate[1], Lieutenant-Colonel Foch remains profoundlycurrent through his pedagogical methods, which went beyond the framework of the War School of the time. Clearly very much inspired by Ignatian pedagogy, these methods contributed to forging a base of staff officers and to influencing leaders who were able to demonstrate sufficient intellectual and moral qualities to create the conditions for the victory of 1918. Far from being obsolete, this pedagogy, open and modern, constitutes a reference and a source of inspiration that is particularly well adapted for trainers involved today in the field of command teaching.

1] Rémy Porte and François Cochet (dir.), Ferdinand Foch ( 1851-1929) - Apprenez à penser, Actes du colloque Foch de 2008, Éditions Soteca 14-18, 2010.

BoldnessPublished on 21/02/2020

Cahiers de la pensée mili-Terre n° 47
Lieutenant-colonel Emmanuel DUBOIS

In a historical field study, one officer, somewhat teasingly, said of the German offensive in the Ardennes in 1940: "Guderian is daring because he succeeded. If the offensive had failed, he would have been incompetent". Is audacity not inherent in the nature of daring? Is it only a subjective notion, a viewpoint of the spectator who judges the action a posteriori? Is it just a matter of chance, a roll of the dice whose success depends on his lucky star (or his opponent's unlucky star)? In short, is the audacity we cherish so much a fantasy of dreamy kids? The author of this article passionately provides his personal answers to these questions.

In 2035, will the leader in combat be a leader of men or a connected manager?Published on 19/02/2020

military-Earth thinking notebook
le Chef de bataillon Sebastien PISTRE, le Capitaine François-Xavier LAMBIN-BERNOT et le Captain Bernhard KIRCHNER

Command support tools are multiplying in information and command systems. The challenge is to define the room for manoeuvre for tactical military leaders in an environment saturated with top-down and bottom-up information.

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