With thousands of satellites launched each year, Earth's orbit is more congested than ever. At the same time, geopolitical tensions are extending into the space domain, making the protection of space infrastructure a strategic priority. In this context, situational awareness in space is essential for understanding what is happening there and who is present. But knowledge alone is not enough. The challenge lies in transforming it into an operational advantage. To achieve this,

In February 2026, three exceptional seizures at the port of Dunkirk totalled more than 13 tonnes of cocaine in under two weeks, with an estimated retail value of nearly €865 million — a national record.¹ And customs is adapting. The spectacular rise of drug trafficking in France and Europe, the growth of e-commerce, and the sophistication of criminal networks are forcing the institution to strengthen its targeting, intelligence, and risk anticipation capabilities through arti

“当前，认知域已经作为独立一域登上战争舞台，日益成为大国博弈的常斗之域、必争之地、胜战砝码.” - 把准认知域作战之脉 - 中国军网 “The cognitive domain has emerged as an independent battlefield, increasingly becoming a regular arena for major power contests, a battleground for competition, and a key factor for victory.” By Andrew Jensen, managing partner at the Iota Group © AI Generated picture The Chinese Communist Party’s doctrine of “Cognitive Warfare” frames the human mind as a bloodless battlefield of geopolitical competition. While

Chemistry lies at the heart of land-based armaments. Behind every round of ammunition is a pyrotechnic chain — explosives, propellant powders, priming compositions — built on energetic materials whose formulations have been inherited and qualified over many years. Over the course of a decade, the regulatory framework governing these substances has become a structural factor for the sector. Long treated as a peripheral compliance matter, the chemical dossier has today emerged

Ukraine has turned drones, sensors and battlefield software into an industrial-scale war machine. Yet the lesson is not simply that more technology wins. It is that advanced systems can also produce too many pictures of the same war. By Hubert Raymond and Jean Langlois In October 2024, Russia launched more than 2,000 attack drones against Ukraine in a single month. Ukrainian forces said they intercepted 1,185 of them, while 738 were “lost” after electronic warfare or navigati

« L’IA demeure l’une des technologies les plus puissantes et les plus transformatrices du secteur de la vidéosurveillance. Si elle offre des opportunités considérables pour améliorer la sûreté et la sécurité, l’efficacité opérationnelle et l’intelligence métier, son déploiement doit impérativement s’accompagner d’une mise en œuvre éthique et d’intégrations pertinentes, capables de créer une réelle valeur. » C’est en ces termes que s'est exprimé Mats Thulin, directeur IA et so

Freshly elected, France’s mayors are inheriting a security crisis that the State can no longer handle alone. Between game-changing technologies, little-known European funding and local models that have proven their worth, solutions do exist to address one of the French public’s top concerns. Mayors have five years to act. By Elisabeth de France Insecurity worries every French citizen

Maxim resonates more than ever in a world reshaped by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, turmoil in the Middle East, and the deepening Sino-American rivalry. These converging pressures are forcing the European Union to define what kind of collective military power it intends to embody. What operations is it currently conducting? What defence architecture is taking shape? A look back at one of the defining strategic challenges of the 21st century. By Hugo Champion EU military power

The war of attrition in Ukraine, the hybridization of threats, the return of power politics, the vulnerability of supply chains, and multidomain confrontation all reveal a form of conflict that has become truly global. Faced with this strategic shift, Western powers are rediscovering the importance of mass, endurance, human resources, and national resilience, forcing them to fundamentally rethink their defence models. By Lou Cusmar The return of high-intensity warfare

85% of criminal investigations now rely on digital data. Yet French justice is spinning its wheels against online scams, identity theft, and defamation: the evidence exists, but it sits with Discord, Coinbase, or OpenAI — and these American giants don't always cooperate. In April 2026, Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin attempted to fix this through a ministerial circular — even recommending an American private platform to do so. A closer look at a text that reveals a great dea

Quelques mois après leur prise de fonction, les nouvelles équipes municipales doivent poursuivre un chantier déjà central : la sécurité publique. Entre attentes citoyennes, montée en puissance des polices municipales, acceptabilité des technologies et besoin de coordination avec l’État et les forces de sécurité, les collectivités sont appelées à structurer une réponse plus lisible, plus cohérente et mieux outillée. © Victor 217 Une attente citoyenne devenue centrale Longtemps

What if the next great battle for sovereignty were no longer waged on Earth, but in deep space? Red Team Défense — the foresight initiative of the French Ministry of the Armed Forces — has imagined, for its Season 3, a scenario set on the horizon of 2075: two rival mega-consortiums vie for control of the strategic minerals of the Moon and the Asteroid Belt. Fiction? Only on the surface. This scenario in fact reveals a more immediate truth: sovereignty is no longer a fixed att