Etienne de DURAND
Senior research fellow and Director of the Security Studies Center from 2006 to 2015
Etienne de Durand is an analyst of strategic and military affairs. He has been a senior research fellow at the French Institute of International Relations (Ifri) and the director of Ifri’s Security Studies Center from 2006 to 2015.
At Ifri, Etienne de Durand has followed more specifically French and U.S. defense policy; European security and transatlantic issues; nuclear deterrence and proliferation; and current military issues such as ongoing interventions and military transformation. He has authored numerous monographs and articles on these issues. He has also been the editor of the Focus stratégique electronic series.
He has regularly contributed to analyses for the French Ministries of Defense and Foreign Affairs. He was part of the group of civilian advisers for General McChrystal’s Afghanistan review in July 2009, and has been involved in the 2013 Defense White Paper in France.
Beginning in the 1970s, becoming solidified with the “peace dividends” in the 1990s and finally accelerated by the financial crisis of 2008, Europe’s demilitarization is undeniable.
Military helicopters have evolved into technologically sophisticated weapon systems. Originally designed to counter Soviet armor, attack helicopters now have to cope with a wide spectrum of threats, some of them bringing them back to their counterinsurgency roots.
Thème lancé pendant les années 1980 et constamment repris depuis, érigé en obligation impérieuse et presque en dogme pendant l'ère Rumsfeld, l'interarmisation ou jointness s'inscrit en réalité dans un débat ancien et même récurrent qui, par-delà MacNamara, remonte aux débuts de la guerre...
L'objectif de cette étude est double. Il s'agit de mettre en lumière les points communs et les divergences entre les stratégies aériennes des pays occidentaux en menant une réflexion comparative sur le rôle et la place de l'arme aérienne aux Etats-Unis et en Europe. La seconde ambition est de...