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The Figaro editorial: "Behind the parade"

2021-07-13T20:11:16.810Z


By Étienne de Montety, Deputy Editor-in-Chief. The warlike vocabulary appeals to communicators and other advisers who nourish the words of our leaders; nothing like the use of the words mobilization, offensive, strategy to give strength to a discourse on economic recovery, the maintenance of order or health policy - and whatever the real daring. This logomachy has the merit of being effective, it conjures up images that are familiar to everyon


The warlike vocabulary appeals to communicators and other advisers who nourish the words of our leaders;

nothing like the use of the words mobilization, offensive, strategy to give strength to a discourse on economic recovery, the maintenance of order or health policy - and whatever the real daring.

This logomachy has the merit of being effective, it conjures up images that are familiar to everyone.

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The fact remains that war is not only a word drawn from the bag of metaphors so dear to the feathers of politicians, it regularly forms the daily life of tens of thousands of soldiers.

Yesterday Libya, the Central African Republic, Syria.

Today the Sahel, where, since 2013, France has been engaged in an inextricable conflict which indeed requires a strategy: not any communication plan, but genuine reflection matured and proven by years of experience.

In eight years, this desert war has changed in form and intensity, as

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Source: lefigaro

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