DECRYPTION – At the Eurosatory exhibition, which ended on Friday, the French military pleaded for an acceleration of production in the face of the Russian threat. A real revolution, which involves the simplification of procedures.
We must do otherwise. The horizon of the threat represented by Russia, which could be tempted to test Europe before the end of the decade, the current disengagement of the United States, which has announced to review its involvement in the NATO force model, the industrial competition between Europeans are making the French military dizzy. Rearmament, undertaken since Emmanuel Macron’s first five-year term, is not enough. Ammunition stocks are still critical. The new forms of conflict, conducted with drones, in space, with means of electronic warfare, with mass but also precision weapons, require us to rethink the architecture of forces. At the end of the Eurosatory show, which ended on Friday, the statement of urgency, stated many times in the past, is still on the table.
“When the world changes, armies must adaptâ€declared Wednesday the Chief of Staff of the Army, General Pierre Schill…
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