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Thomas Gomart: "France must prepare for new invisible wars"

2021-02-05T19:22:06.094Z


INTERVIEW - The historian points to the competition between the great powers in the environmental, financial, technological or cybersecurity fields.


Globalization accelerates competition between nations, more or less visibly.

The director of the French Institute of International Relations (Ifri) invites Europe to update its geopolitical and geoeconomic software and to make efforts in the field of defense, particularly intelligence.

He publishes

Invisible Wars.

Our next geopolitical challenges

(Éditions Tallandier).

LE FIGARO What do you call invisible wars?

Thomas GOMART.- The military do not have a monopoly on war.

This title reflects the tangle of economic, military and technological conflicts.

Invisible Wars

is an attempted response to

War Out of Boundaries

, a book published in 1999 by two Chinese officers that listed 24 different types of wars, ranging from environmental warfare to media warfare.

The Europeans wanted to see globalization only as an intensification of flows and an interpenetration of societies to the detriment of conflictuality.

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Source: lefigaro

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