Russia's invasion of Ukraine and Vladimir Putin's recourse to the nuclear threat upset the security of France and Europe.
The return of war to the heart of our continent materializes the ambition of the new authoritarian empires to expand by force and annihilate democracy.
It reveals all the springs of hybrid conflicts, which are not limited to military constraint and also use economic, cybernetic and informational weapons.
War is interconnected;
it involves the civilian population, both victim and instrument of pressure;
it plays out in the theater of operations but also in public opinion.
Ukraine's aggression is an electroshock for Europe and the Europeans, who had neither anticipated nor prepared for it.
France had certainly resisted the illusions of the end of history, by maintaining a nuclear deterrent capability, by preserving a complete model of army, by maintaining a forged operational culture...
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