To speak of influence[1] in the armed forces is to have in mind "war within the populations" or the implementation of procedures to preserve our freedom of action. Some allies also use influence to facilitate the signing of economic contracts. In fact, France's current trade deficit and the opportunities offered to military personnel in operations could lead to the development of a new strategy of influence within the armed forces, in an interministerial framework.

1] For Patricia Adam (Chair of the National Defence and Armed Forces Committee of the National Assembly), exercising influence means changing the behaviour of others, without violence, so that they act in the desired direction, consciously or not.

With the approach of the centenary of the First World War, the question of the rehabilitation of soldiers shot during the conflict has become a memorable issue, particularly since Prime Minister Lionel Jospin's November 1998 speech in memory of the Chemin des Dames mutineers executed in 1917. The rise in our society of an individualism that is indifferent or hostile to the primacy of the group over the individual, as well as the recourse to references to the group as a whole, is a major obstacle to the rehabilitation of soldiers who were shot during the conflict.cultural references different from those of the 1914-1918 period, tend to make the executed victims of an arbitrary authority, which is today considered unacceptable. The author proposes to determine the place occupied by the shot dead in our collective memory by placing the execution of these soldiers in the context of the Great War.

The election of Hassan Rohani as President of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) in June 2013 is helping to strengthen the grip of the current regime. This regime, based on the theocratic concept of the velayat-e faqih,[1] benefits externally from the overwhelmingly positive image of the new president, both in the West and in Iran. Internally, however, Hassan Rohani risks becoming the scapegoat of the Supreme Guide Ali Khamenei, as the challenges awaiting the new executive seem so delicate to take up in the four years to come.

1] The "tutelage of the jurisconsult", which consecrates the political predominance of the high clergy through the central function of Supreme Guide, currently occupied by Ayatollah Ali Khameneï.

At present, there are virtually no serious military operations without a cyber dimension. Yet warfare over telecommunications networks is frankly nothing new. Today's conflicts in cyberspace are merely the continuation of older conflicts dating from the late 19th and 20th centuries. For cyber warfare, it is also necessary to know the foundations of a past that allows for a correct understanding of the present.

How will the Ukrainian crisis develop: open war with Russia? Russia's definitive annexation of the Crimea? Partition of Ukraine? Ukrainian civil war? Reconciliation and cohabitation within a federal or confederative structure? Or any other outcome? As of March 15, 2014, no one has the answers to these questions yet. Failing that, General Jacques Favin Levêque brings us these remarkable elements of analysis, in which history, recent as well as older, plays a major role.

Translation for the British Army of the Strategic Defense Review [1]- SDR 2010 - and in response to the severe budgetary constraints imposed, the Army 2020 project was unveiled by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) in July 2012. Going far beyond a simple reduction in capacity, this project fundamentally transforms the way the Army operates in its organisation and its very design, but with the ambition of maintaining intact its capacity to act in operations. Attractive on paper, this reform - even this revolution - also presents significant risks.

1] The Strategic Defense Review (SDR) is the British equivalent of the French White Paper on Defence and National Security.

The problem of sexual assault and harassment within the French Ministry of Defence made the headlines a few months ago, prompting the Minister to take, or resume, a series of measures to combat this recurring evil. This letter from the DLT within the US Army shows that this problem, despite rigorous responses, also exists among our American friends, a priori in much greater proportions.

Heckled, sometimes weakened, but never really questioned, the armed-nation link is going through reforms of the military institution and changes in society. The White Paper on Defence and Security of 2013 introduces this notion in its preamble. At the heart of the problem of the relationship between society and its professional army, this link naturally legitimises, by its strength, the action and very existence of the latter. After shedding semantic light on the notions of army, nation and the link that unites them, the state of the art, on the eve of a new and important reform of armies, will allow us to become aware of the stakes of the indifference that society could have towards a professional army.

A technology based on communicating objects capable of acting autonomously, "M2M" is likely, according to experts, to change our way of life in the years to come. Its potential applications in the armed forces are such that they are likely to very quickly become a major part of the operational activity of forces, which is why it is important to carry out an in-depth reflection on their use as soon as possible in order to derive optimal efficiency from them.

In this article, Battalion Commander de Monicault provides us with a rigorous analysis of our Special Forces in terms of capabilities, and then outlines a few avenues for a reasonable and reasoned future for this tool, which has become indispensable in modern operations.