Every word counts. In nuclear weapons, a weapon that no army has used since the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan at the end of the Second World War, doctrine is better than employment. As a warning, it describes the conditions of use while maintaining the vagueness about the "vital interests" that it protects. Expressing it is one of the ultimate attributes of the President of the Republic, head of the armed forces. France actually belongs to the very closed club of "endowed" powers, with a little less than 300 nuclear warheads. Like his predecessors, Emmanuel Macron therefore bends to the exercise: he must pronounce Friday at the Military School, in front of "the young officers who will be the generals of tomorrow" , as we emphasize in his entourage, a speech on strategy defense and deterrence.
Several times postponed, the intervention of Emmanuel Macron should resume the heritage formulated by his predecessors: nuclear is a "defensive" weapon which
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