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Defense economy is a strategical issue for France. The understanding of this problematic encouraged the Institute of Advanced Studies in National Defense (IHEDN) to create a forum with the first-class industrial partners in order to be able to develop researches and studies in a such vital sector to both our defense and economy.

The French defense companies plays a major role in our economy, with characteristics and proper demands, while the State plays both the regulator and the customer. Knowledge of this sector is indispensable to understand the issues.

The defense industry in France is confronted by a permanent demand of innovation to preserve a strategical capacity in facing an increasing competition. The big industrial groups are engaged with a conviction of this perspective.

The big European defense companies follow a process of adapting to a contracting European market but an expanding international market with an increased competition and seek for better profitability.

The companies in the defense sector value their dual approaches by capitalizing the competences and synergy better between civil and military markets, in a logic of better efficiency and increase of the profitability line.

Islam is in a profound crisis. Leading a spiral of violence that affects the Muslims in all their diversity and the Westerners at the same time, it is obliged to find  a way together to dialogue responsibly.

The religious dimension takes a particular place in the Israeli strategic conception with an approach that has largely evolved since the creation of the Israel state, to reinforce a dimension that is exclusively about security today.

Egypt is going through a process of political transformation marked by a pursuit for democracy since 2011. This has allowed the Christians—less than 10% of the population—that have been planning thirty years ago since the rise of Islamic politics, to be citizens completely, which seems to support president Abdel Fattah al-Sissi.

The Russian orthodox church has become a major partner of Kremlin. By sharing the same approach with Russia, it is at the risk of destabilizing the orthodox people particularly in Ukraine, who had refused the Moscow Patriarchate to interfere with domestic politics.

Facing terrorist threats, France arranges a national strategy of intelligence. However, to go even further, the legislator must authorize his intelligence services to be more intrusive with the issue of finding balance between collective security and respect of individual liberties.

In the strategy of the EU for security and development in Sahel region, March 2011, the EU advocates for a global approach, aiming to promote prosperity and security in the Sahel region. Here is an outline of such strategy and possibilities of extending it to the whole Sahel-Saharan group.

Taking hostages has become a common practice in current conflicts, forcing the states to find new ways of acting to respond to the stressful events that could quickly turn into a tragedy.

The debates of the cyberspace usually insist on its threats and its descriptive technique. However, the essential problem sets in its informational contents. The concept of informational territories, created by the Economic Warfare School, is a tool that promotes understanding.

In order to protect the current conscription model, which anticipates an annual training period, the Swiss army is ready to review the duration of its forming. Such an absent period in the professional world, which is indispensable to the coherence of the defense system, is seen as a constraint by the economic world.

The Bundeswehr, carrier of a complicated heritage, continues its transformation in a contradictory context between a quite hostile public opinion against interventions and an international demand for Germany to be more active militarily on the international stage.

A reflection to the notion of strength rests indispensable, while the current fragmentation in the world seems to first question the confrontation of interests that are often conflicted and brought violence.

The military thought that was born and constructed in ancient China for more than twenty centuries has become a useful universal reference to strategies today. It is necessary for one to be interested in the genesis of the Chinese concepts of “Art of the War”, to better understand and to adapt them.

About 27,000 french soldiers died in the Dardanelles Campaign in 1915. Yet, the national history has overshadowed this campaign, even when it played a central role, including the plan of English domestic politics.