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“War is the continuation of politics by other means,” said Clausewitz. The entire history of the world shows the opposite: Politics is the continuation of war by other means…

From competition to armed confrontation, war has always been there. Whether military, economic, or civilizational, clashes b...

History is a dialectic. As advocates of the "longue durée" have pointed out, it rests on millennia-old geographic and civilizational foundations. At the same time, it evolves under the impact of great technological and military revolutions.

For the past two centuries, world history has been defined...

We can all see it: tomorrow’s wars will be driven by AI. The arms race has already begun. The big question is: who will control AI?

We know the cliché: Americans innovate, Chinese copy, Europeans regulate. In 2024, the emergence of DeepSeek (1) shattered this myth. In AI and robotics, China no long...

We know the adage: In war, the first victim is truth.

But what if the manipulation of truth was actually the ultimate weapon?

Three thousand years ago, Sun Tzu already emphasized this in The Art of War: psychology is key to gaining the upper hand. We've seen it throughout history, rich with countl...

As the saying goes, we always prepare for the last war. And the best-laid plans regularly collapse with the arrival of a new paradigm.

To truly prepare for the future, can we imagine today what tomorrow's war will look like?

Until now, wars have typically been classified into five successive gener...