This crescendo is reminiscent of the situation following the engagement in Afghanistan from the end of 2001. Born out of the mission to eradicate Al-Quaida (AQ), kill its leader Osama Bin Laden and punish the Taliban regime that protected him, Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF - Operation Freedom In just a few weeks, Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) succeeded in retaking Kabul, overthrowing the Taliban whose leaders are fleeing or hiding, while AQ terrorists are hiding in the mountains of Tora Bora, relentlessly pursued by American special forces.

Renewing the social role of the Army

This development of the warrior spirit can be seen according to a prolong-term processto cultivate the Army lifestyle, highlighting its Sundaymoral values, share it within society.

The challenges of today and tomorrow

If certain major phenomena are destined to remain so, like the impact of technology, others more disruptive... the forefront, at least for the next decade.ir. Thus, the return of high-intensity combat raises questions about the available warrior capital among the younger generation, and more broadly on national resilience.

«In existence one only succeeds if one is obsessed with an idea. Right now you have to obsessing over your re-entry into battle. But the moment you put the foot on French soil, be obsessed with the conviction that we won't get up with words or affirmations. We will need a gigantic effort".[1] It is in these terms that Marshal Leclerc was addressing the officers of the 2e armoured division gathered in his neighborhood General at Dalton Hall in England on June 21. 1944, a few weeks before their engagement.

The French army has a very rich and very long experience in the field of of defense cooperation. If his past colonial past is not unrelated to the acquisition of the namely-do and know-be related to this expert.it would be simplistic to make it the sole foundation for theof the successes achieved in this area. Without doubt-he's looking deeper in our collective consciousness this ability to exchange with other cultures, but also and without doubt, in the quality of the training of our frameworks that gives our military tool the robustness which is recognized to him.

War is not just a technological race where the most powerful and the richest are guaranteed to win the battle. It is also, and above all, a test of intelligence and man.

Whether it is today in the Sahel and the Either in the morning or yesterday in Afghanistan, the army... Army is engaged in operations which are characterized by the multiplicity of actors. In addition to the populations in whose midst armies are brought to evolve on the same the theatre of operations, land forces must more and more facing, not an enemy, but to enemies, most often with allies for the benefit of multiple partners. In this context, the taking into account of the cultural fact in the its diversity and complexity constitutes a decisive factor in the conduct of operations.

Distance warfare exposes Western societies to many challenges, both financial and ethical or moral.

As a follow-up to the 2008 symposium1 , the third annual military think tank symposium on the theme : "was held on 31 January 2019 at the École militaire, in the presence of Jean-Jacques Bridey, MP and Chair of the National Defence and Armed Forces Commission.es of the National Assembly, the Major General of the Armed Forces, Admiral Jean Casabianca, and the Chief of Staff of the Army (CEMAT), Army General Jean-Pierre Bosser.

It is part of the movement to renew military thinking within the French Army, which was called for by the CEMAT and instigated by the Centre de doctrine et d'enseignement du commandement (CDEC) (Centre for Doctrine and Command Education).

The theme of this conference sounds like a slogan, but has the advantage of making us quickly grasp the stakes: should the conditions for success in operations be approached through the sole criterion of distance from the adversary?

Is it relevant to consider the possibility of victory only in the context of a physical confrontation, of proximity, or conversely to affirm that war at a distance is the future of our strategy? Distance and proximity are in fact, in an interconnected world, all relative notions. In the same way, armies consider themselves "in contact" with their adversary in a spatial referential eminently relative to their environment culture, their strategy and their weapons.