Defense Policy and Armed Forces

The alliance born of the Korean War trades the assurance of security for Seoul with a certain alignment with Washington. 

Having reportedly helped topple Ben Ali, the Tunisian Armed Forces enjoy substantial support from the population. 

New configurations in Asia suggest to Canberra, as a middle-size power, that it should employ its external strategy as a means to bolster its security and regional stability. 

The increasing judicialization of external military action is encouraging military law to fall into line with common law.

China is increasingly active in the Asia-Pacific region, an area that makes up the main focus of its foreign policy.

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.

The First World War helped redefine the notion of strategy, giving it a political dimension that it previously lacked.

The criticism leveled by Americans at Europe’s neglect of its commitment to defense is not new, and is often exaggerated.

In 1914 the firepower of modern weaponry produced a massacre. To limit losses, the warring parties dug themselves into trenches. The French army was forced to innovate.

Germany’s responsibility in the two global conflicts reflects, among other things, the German military’s desire to free itself from political control and the depth to which the Wehrmacht was immersed into Nazi ideology and a Nazi state whose orders it never really contested.