By General Didier Tisseyre, French Air Force Corps General (Ret.) Senior Consultant in Cybersecurity and Digital StrategiesFormer Commander of French Cyber DefenceFormer Director of Infrastructure Networks and Information Systems at the French Ministry for the Armed Forces. One hundred and seventeen thousand-dollar drones destroy forty strategic bombers deep inside Siberia. A robotic assault captures a position without a single infantryman setting foot on it. In just a few ye

By Lieutenant General (Ret.) Jean-Philippe LECOUFFE, Deputy Executive Director of EUROPOL, in charge of Operations Threats are converging. Our responses must converge too. In my role at Europol, I see every day just how porous the traditional boundaries between internal and external security have become. The phenomenon is not new, but in these times of international tension, its acceleration and amplification are clearly perceptible. Yet our institutions remain organised arou

The war in Ukraine has profoundly transformed Europe’s security environment. It has served as a reminder that the defence of the continent can no longer be conceived solely within the long timeframe of capability programmes, nor through a fragmented logic. Faced with the return of high-intensity conflict and lasting geopolitical unpredictability, Europe must strengthen its capacity to anticipate, produce, protect, and respond to crises. By Thomas Regnier, European Commission

By Guy-Philippe Goldstein, lecturer at the École de Guerre Économique, essayist and novelist Thinking about the future of war means understanding whether the coming technological decade will arm the sword or the shield, the offense or the defense. On that question hinges the future price of aggression and that of the stability of borders. Who is going to win? Today, advantage to the defense? Seen from mid-2026, the shield prevails. Three years after its "special military oper

By Grégoire Chauvière Le Drian, Representative of the European Investment Bank (EIB) in France As defence industry leaders and investors gather at Eurosatory 2026, one question increasingly shapes the debate: how can Europe finance the capabilities required to ensure its security and strategic autonomy in a rapidly changing world? The answer extends well beyond defence budgets alone which is currently discussed in the French Parliament. Building a more resilient Europe requir

Long associated with the most extreme scenarios, the nuclear, radiological, biological, and chemical (CBRN) threat is now returning to the European strategic debate. The war in Ukraine, the deterioration of the international environment, the circumvention of norms, and the rise of hybrid threats remind us that CBRN can no longer be regarded as a strictly technical subject. It now belongs to a broader reflection: operational adaptation, the resilience of societies, and Europe'

By Jean-Louis Thiériot, Member of Parliament for Seine-et-Marne, former Minister Delegate for the Armed Forces and Veterans Affairs The uninhibited resort to force, a symptom of the return of power politics, overturns three decades of illusions: those of the peace dividend and of a conflict confined to the margins of History. Faced with this turning point, the tempo of our rearmament effort must absolutely accelerate, grounded in a clear-eyed assessment of the new security ch

We are living through a pivotal moment for the security of our continent: the unleashing of violence and the ambitions of territorial expansion have become the new reality of international relations. We, the French and Europeans, must fully absorb the lessons of the National Strategic Review and prepare for a high-intensity conflict, while also defending ourselves in the hybrid war already under way, with its attacks, sabotage and intrusions into our airspace. It is therefore

Le monde change vite. Très vite. Les menaces se transforment, les frontières du conflit se déplacent vers le numérique, l’espace, l’information. Au cœur de cette mutation, les start-up inventent les ruptures technologiques de demain. Pour les détecter, les accompagner et les propulser, Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines et Airbus Defence and Space lancent le Challenge Défense 2026 — un appel à candidatures inédit et très opérationnel avec un objectif : agir ensemble pour la défense. ©

« Ce qu’on doit craindre des troupes mercenaires, c’est leur lâcheté », écrit le philosophe Nicolas Machiavel dans Le Prince. La question de l’emploi de groupes militaires privés n’est donc pas récente, mais elle alimente aujourd’hui de nombreux débats quant à leur impact stratégique et politique. Entre présence étatique indirecte dans des zones à risque et externalisation de la guerre, les sociétés militaires privées (SMP) sont désormais au cœur des conflits hybrides contemp

L’avènement des outils numériques et l’ère de la manipulation de l’information font craindre des attaques cognitives d’ampleur. Qu’elles visent les armées ou les civils, elles feront des dégâts. Des scientifiques français s’attachent aujourd’hui à mieux comprendre leurs mécanismes pour les contrer. PAR LOLA BRETON © Ecliptic Graphic Nausées, vomissements, vertiges. A l’automne 2016, une poignée d’employés du ministère de la Défense américain détachés à Cuba ont commencé à res

2022 : déclenchement de la guerre en Ukraine. Depuis, le champ de bataille s’est transformé avec la montée en puissance des drones et des robots. Produits en masse, relativement peu coûteux et de plus en plus autonomes, ces systèmes bouleversent doctrines militaires, équilibres stratégiques et modèles industriels. Leur adoption rapide par les armées pourrait faire des drones et de la robotique l’un des piliers de la puissance militaire de demain. Par Diane Cassain © Arthur Hi