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Weapon Systems

Sovereignty, Defense, and Pretenses on the Eve of the Vote

5 September 2026
The vote taking place in Saxony-Anhalt on September 6 looks, on the surface, like a routine midterm consultation — a settling of domestic political scores. It is nothing of the sort. What it really puts to the test is the continent’s capacity to survive as a strategic power, at a moment when every European chancellery claims to defend sovereignty while quietly organizing its dependence.

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Projection d’une frégate FDI naviguant en environnement arctique — illustration imaginant le futur rayon d’action des unités suédoises de classe Luleå, appelées à opérer bien au-delà de la seule mer Baltique — Illustration IA © Naval Group
Press Review

Who Loses Wins in the Far North?

1 September 2026
On Monday, August 31, aboard the frigate Amiral Ronarc’h moored in Stockholm, Emmanuel Macron and Ulf Kristersson sealed a ten-year-old Franco-Swedish defence partnership set to run for decades to come — four frigates, a strategic framework agreement, a nuclear steering group, French troops in the Swedish Arctic. In France, the event remained largely off the media radar. In Scandinavia, it made headlines, sparked debate, and, at times, controversy. A press review.

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Le tableau de bord des horloges : production, R&D, déploiement, maintenance — piloter simultanément plusieurs temporalités, l’enjeu central d’une BITD moderne — Illustration IA © European-Security
Jérôme Denariez

A Defense Industrial Base, Several Clocks

1 September 2026
Debates about the war economy are often reduced to a question of volume: how many shells, drones, armored vehicles, billions? This reading is necessary, but insufficient. The war in Ukraine shows that a defense industrial base does not run on a single rhythm. It must simultaneously maintain platforms designed to last decades, mass-produce consumable equipment, modify systems within weeks, replace an unavailable supplier, finance ramp-ups in output, and keep producing even as its own industrial depth becomes a target.

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Le 54ème Salon du Bourget, du 19 au 25 juin 2023
Jérôme Denariez

The Price France Pays Three Times

19 July 2026
France is not at war. Yet it is already paying the bill: costlier energy, disrupted supply chains, public finances under strain. Jérôme Denariez makes the case without detours — war is written into the accounts […]