ADM PIERRE VANDIER CHIEF OF STAFF OF THE FRENCH NAVY “The hypothesis of naval combat is thus back on the agenda and the French Navy is getting ready to face it.” For about ten years now, the world has been facing a deterioration in the geopolitical context with a return of interstate competition, primarily crystallised within common spaces (cyberspace, exo-atmospheric space, aero-naval space) and with a growing recourse to hybrid and latent modes of action combining the regular and the irregular, the military and the civilian, communication, and ambiguity. These actions complicate the attribut…
