Prénom de l'expert

Vincent

Nom de l'expert

TOURRET

Research Fellow, Security Studies Center, Head of the Observatory on Future Conflicts, Ifri

Research Areas:

Russian Military Thought and Operational Theory
Competition for Air Superiority
Command, Control, and Information Systems — Development and Integration
Drone Integration in Armed Forces

A soldier watching a sunset on an armored infantry fighting vehicle

Security Studies Center

Group of kamkazza combat drones against the background of sky and clouds, top view, 3d rendering. Concept: war in Ukraine, drone attack.

Observatory on Future Conflicts

Vincent Tourret is a researcher at Ifri's Security Studies Center. He holds a Master’s degree in International Relations from Paris II Assas University and in History from Paris IV University. From 2018 to 2022, he worked as a research fellow at the Foundation for Strategic Research as part of the Future Conflicts Observatory.

His work focuses on the “techno-operational” analysis of armed conflicts, which involves assessing the impact of doctrinal and capability innovations on military organizations, particularly in terms of force structure and force generation. This specialization has led him to study the evolution of Soviet and later Russian strategic culture, its internal shifts, and its implications for the war in Ukraine and the future of Russian power in Europe. He is currently completing a doctoral dissertation at the Université du Québec à Montréal and conducted a research visit to Kyiv in 2024. His publications cover Russian land and air operational designs, the state of its armed forces and their prospects for reconstitution, as well as the impact of drone warfare on the battlefield.

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Publications

Papers

Design, Destroy, Dominate. The Mass Drone Warfare as a Potential Military Revolution

18 June 2025

The widespread use of drones observed in Ukraine—both in terms of the scale of the fleets deployed and their omnipresence in the operations of both belligerents—appears to meet the conditions of a genuine military revolution.

Vincent TOURRET