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16 April 1932 | A French Jewish girl, Micheline Caen, was born in Montmorency. She arrived in #Auschwitz on her 12th birthday in the 71st transport of Jews deported from Drancy. After selection she was murdered in the gas chamber.

The Society for Military History is now archiving historical materials related to military history that are disappearing from federal or state websites. We are open to submissions, anonymously or otherwise. Please see www.smh-hq.org/archivedreso... and note there the submission links.

Le mois prochain : « le feu brûle-t-il? » Merci le Diplo pour ces vraies questions

Survival, the journal of IISS, kindly published a shortened version of the speech I gave to the defence event of the AI summit at the École militaire in February. It starts with a reflection on Europe's first major AI summit—in Paris in 1951. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

🧵 I've been reviewing many of the past year's US & European military & intelligence assessments of how long it would take Russia to rebuild its military capability and the timeline on which any threat to NATO could unfold. A brief thread below which summarises these assessments.

If Europe can't count on Washington, should it turn to London and Paris instead?

An update on the war following a recent trip. The situation has improved compared with Fall 2024. Russian offensive momentum slowed significantly over the winter, though it is premature to claim that the front has stabilized, especially following AFU withdrawal in Kursk. /1

1. This isn't a game of who has the most warheads. 2. If Europe needs more warheads, we can do that. www.ft.com/content/7fed...

Worth revisiting Vipin Narang's analysis earlier this week (in his newsletter with @pranayrvaddi.bsky.social ) on the upsides of U.S. extended deterrence.

🚀 La fusée européenne Ariane 6 a placé en orbite un satellite militaire embarqué pour le compte de la France, un premier vol commercial lourd d'enjeux pour la souveraineté spatiale européenne.

NEW: The Minerva Research Initiative, established by the Pentagon to fund social science relevant to national security, is being gutted. Dozens of researchers studying threats from extremist groups, misinformation or climate change have received notices that their grants are being terminated. 🧪

How DOGE detonated a crisis at a highly sensitive nuclear weapons agency www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Le Collimateur, c'est bien, c'est bon, c'est utile. Et aussi, ça s'écoule gratuitement, à croire que c'est un service public.

Elon Musk said DOGE made a mistake by cutting USAID’s Ebola prevention but it had been “restored.” That’s not true, current and former officials told me and @johnphudson.bsky.social. “There have been no efforts to ‘turn on’” Ebola prevention, said Nidhi Bouri, who oversaw team until January.

Reality check. Thank you, Financial Times.

Le narratif russe mot pour mot : Xenia Fedorova, ex-directrice de Russia Today France, affilié au Kremlin et interdit dans l’UE, chronique désormais l’actualité internationale dans le JDNews et sur Cnews et publie bientôt chez Fayard (groupe Bolloré, encore) un livre sur … la liberté d’expression

Trois ans après le déclenchement de l’invasion du territoire ukrainien par les forces armées de la Fédération de Russie, #VIGINUM publie une synthèse des principaux modes opératoires informationnels observés depuis le 24 février 2022 ➡️ www.sgdsn.gouv.fr/publications...

NEW: Pentagon says it is firing 5,400 civilians next week as part of an effort to cull up to 8% of the civilian workforce, while implementing a hiring freeze. 46% of DoD civilians are veterans. @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

🇺🇦 La cote de confiance du président ukrainien Volodymyr Zelensky s'élève à 57%, après trois ans d'invasion russe, et non à 4%, comme l'a affirmé son homologue américain Donald Trump, selon un sondage publié mercredi en Ukraine #AFP

La France si elle était occupée aujourd’hui en mêmes proportions que l’Ukraine

EU defence industry problems: EU Member States are not procuring European defence products (<50%), too much fragmentation, not enough production capacity, lack of interoperability and need to meet NATO standards…⬇️ A thread 🧵1/8 andriuskubilius.lt/en/european-...

The moment Estonia disconnected its power grid from Russia has been shared online. A historic step toward energy independence.

#Publications 📚 | La Lettre de l'IRSEM du mois de janvier 2025 est disponible ! 👋 💬 Retrouvez-y les dernières publications de l’IRSEM, l'actualité des chercheurs et des doctorants, le compte rendu des événements passés, ou encore notre veille stratégique.

En route pour Bordeaux pour la table ronde de lancement du dernier numéro de la revue Les Champs de Mars @irsem.bsky.social qui porte sur le #nucléaire ! Avec Élie Baranets, Adrien Schu, Maïlys Mangin, @dimitrialgretminic.bsky.social & @corentinbr.bsky.social 18h, au PJJ, @univbordeaux.bsky.social

La France dénonce une « action agressive » de la Russie après qu’un avion de la marine française a été la « cible de mesures d’intimidation » au-dessus de la mer Baltique

A bad title but a good paper reader.foreignaffairs.com/2025/01/03/t...

Trump must decide between "a humiliating strategic defeat on the global stage and immediately redoubling American support for Ukraine. The choice will determine not only the fate of Ukraine but also the success of his presidency," excellent piece by Bob Kagan www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Wordle 1 290 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Well, that was surprisingly fast

Fascinating that the PLAAF/CCP have chosen to fly this prototype in daylight now… I’d be cautious about attributing it as China’s NGAD-equivalent 6th gen fighter though. I suspect more likely to be the 5th Gen regional bomber/strike fighter project sometimes called J/H-XX

Israel Loosened Its Rules to Bomb Hamas Fighters, Killing Many More Civilians www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/w...

Military #doctrine is not a substitute for the theory. If you want to discuss Clausewitz (and you should), please read Clausewitz. Particularly in #PME PS: I love doctrine, and US Marine Corps Warfighting (MCDP 1) is a prime example of a beautifully written doctrine. #MilSky #CivMilSky

Iran Begins to Evacuate Military Officials and Personnel From Syria www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/w...

I'm not so sure we'd be safer with Russia having built and deployed 9M729 missiles and pseudo RS-26 'ICBMs' while the US would still be unilaterally constrained

Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus with active cryovolcanoes. The water ice being ejected then feed Saturn’s E ring.

I do *strongly* recommend this long NYTimes piece. I do *not* recommend reading it seated with your kid in an ER waiting room

Plusieurs années que l'on tenait à répéter que non, la guerre civile syrienne n'était pas terminée et que la "solution russe" n'était qu'une facade de tranquillité bâtie sur la terreur et la force brute quand d'autres aimaient y voir "la pacification, la vraie".

⚡️ The Netherlands has delivered three Patriot launchers to Ukraine, announced the country’s Defense Minister, Ruben Brekelmans.

La Russie multiplie les attaques de saturation de l’espace aérien ukrainien www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

This article is terrifying: "As wealthier countries bomb poorer ones, devastating essential infrastructure, they have created the tragic social conditions that foster antibiotic resistance. The public-health fallout knows no borders and can carry on indefinitely, even after the bombs stop."

nobody does more brutal fashion reviews than the irish

Terrible couverture de @politico-french-politics-POLITICOEurope.flipboard.com.ap.brid.gy

A must read thread 🧵 on today's strike

Bienvenue à l' @irsem.bsky.social sous le ciel bleu! (Bien qu'aujourd'hui très gris et neigeux)

An excellent and helpful thread on the changes introduced in the updated Russian nuclear doctrine

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