The American President George W. Bush has chosen numerous specialists to help him devise his country’s defense policy, which consists essentially in reorganizing the American security apparatus and in defining a new strategic framework based on a new equilibrium between nuclear dissuasion, anti-missile defense and measures aiming at stopping mass destruction arms proliferation. It is submitted to several interior lobbies, and linked to political life as well as the business world. What (...)  lire suite

Since World War II, states have privileged space activity as an instrument of power. Relying on long-term programs, generally simultaneous with a nuclear endeavor, space effort may multiply strength and force, and involves considerable effects in armaments. It also allows the management of international crises, armed conflicts and even wars. United States, USSR, European countries (mainly, France), medium powers and developing countries, have deployed their space realizations in various (...)  lire suite

A democratic, but poor country in 1947, India has progressively set the bases of its power in its fifty-some years of independence. The nuclear tests in 1998 have proved its determination to play a role in a future multi-polar world ; they are the most dramatic sign of it. Despite political, economic and social disparities, as well as still obsolete infrastructures, India’s power is visible through its stable democratic regime, its fully expanding economy and its emerging soft-power. (...)  lire suite

The year 2001 saw the consolidation of the European defense industry, which has evolved in different ways, depending on the sectors and market specialties. Great European groups in aeronautics and electronics have developed their Transatlantic links and, at the same time, gone through a process of integration, whereas transnational acquisitions have multiplied in the field of ground armament ; as what regards naval construction, sketches of international regroupings, that will have to (...)  lire suite