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LA TASK FORCE SABRE - French Special Forces in the Sahel
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LA TASK FORCE SABRE - French Special Forces in the Sahel

L20220405
€23.70
Since its deployment in the Sahel in 2009, Task Force Sabre, the French special forces unit, had been the subject of no book whatsoever. This work explains in detail how the hunt for Al-Qaeda and Daesh terrorists is conducted across this region of Africa the size of Europe. Weapons, tactics and units are described in full to illuminate the effectiveness...
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STICK ACTION SPÉCIALE - An operator from the 1er RPIMa...
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STICK ACTION SPÉCIALE - An operator from the 1er RPIMa tells his story

L20220403
€19.91
Finding his preparatory maths studies deadly dull, Alexandre Alex dreams of joining the army and becoming a "commando", though he has no real idea what that might actually mean. When a recruiter tries to sell him the role of "computer commando" in order to steer him toward signals rather than inform him about special forces, Alexandre comes close to being...
EYES ON THE FLIGHT DECK
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EYES ON THE FLIGHT DECK

L20220399
€36.02
6 June 1987: a young sailor, freshly qualified as a missile and gunnery specialist, boards the aircraft carrier Clémenceau on a port call at Brest. 10 June 2021: still a sailor at heart, the author finds himself aboard the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle as a photographer and embarks for a few days in the Mediterranean. Tirelessly faithful to his...
THE BATTLE OF MARIUPOL - 25 FEBRUARY - 20 MAY 2022 THE BATTLE OF MARIUPOL - 25 FEBRUARY - 20 MAY 2022 2
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THE BATTLE OF MARIUPOL - 25 FEBRUARY - 20 MAY 2022

L20220395
€9.48
24 February 2022 marks the beginning of the Russian forces' invasion of Ukraine, described by Vladimir Putin as a "special military operation". Seeking to seize the country within a matter of days, the Russian army attacks from Crimea, from the east of the country, and from Belarus, but numerous difficulties — including an unexpected Ukrainian resistance...
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THE FRENCH ARMY SPECIAL FORCES - VOLUME 2: WEAPONS,... THE FRENCH ARMY SPECIAL FORCES - VOLUME 2: WEAPONS,... 2
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THE FRENCH ARMY SPECIAL FORCES - VOLUME 2: WEAPONS, VEHICLES AND EQUIPMENT

L20220375
€28.44
For some twenty years, the Army Special Forces have been engaged in counter-terrorism operations. They have taken part in numerous training and intelligence missions and in bold interventions that have neutralised several dozen armed terrorist groups and rescued many hostages in Afghanistan, the Sahel and the Levant. Today, the Army Special Forces command...
THE FRENCH ARMY SPECIAL FORCES - VOLUME 1: AT THE HEART... THE FRENCH ARMY SPECIAL FORCES - VOLUME 1: AT THE HEART... 2
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THE FRENCH ARMY SPECIAL FORCES - VOLUME 1: AT THE HEART OF THE COUNTER-TERRORISM FIGHT

L20220374
€33.18
For more than twenty years, the Army Special Forces have been engaged in the fight against terrorism alongside their naval and air force counterparts across various operational theatres. During this period they have taken part in numerous training missions, intelligence-gathering operations, and bold interventions that have made it possible to rescue...
NEW HISTORY of the French Air and Space Force NEW HISTORY of the French Air and Space Force 2
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NEW HISTORY of the French Air and Space Force

L20220332
€28.34
The prestigious history of the French Air and Space Force in 480 pages and 750 rare or previously unpublished photographs The Centre d'Etudes Stratégiques Aérospatiales (CESA) co-publishes with Éditions Pierre de Taillac a Nouvelle Histoire de l'Armée de l'Air et de l'Espace. It succeeds l'Histoire de l'aviation militaire française published in 1980 by...
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COMBAT SKIES - Unpublished Testimonies from Fighter Pilots
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COMBAT SKIES - Unpublished Testimonies from Fighter Pilots

L20220294
€21.80
Afghanistan, Libya, Mali, Iraq, Syria... Our combat pilots and navigators have been accumulating wartime missions for twenty-five years under the most unlikely latitudes. But while the geostrategic environment has changed considerably over the course of a generation, the fundamentals of these crews' lives have ultimately changed little, with the same key...
UNIFORMS OF THE SAPEURS-POMPIERS FROM 1700 TO THE PRESENT...
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UNIFORMS OF THE SAPEURS-POMPIERS FROM 1700 TO THE PRESENT DAY

L20160342
€37.87
The role of Sapeur-pompier only truly emerged at the beginning of the 18th century, with the invention of the hand pump. The necessity of training skilled and available technicians gave birth to the Gardes-Pompes. In order to be immediately recognisable, they required a distinctive mark. The corporate medal was succeeded by headgear — first a cap, then a...
The Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan Military Academy – The Great...
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The Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan Military Academy – The Great School of Command

L20210159
€32.23
The book presenting the history of the Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan military academy. The Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan Military Academy today brings together three schools: the École spéciale militaire, the École militaire interarmes and the École militaire des aspirants de Coëtquidan, created in 2020. Whether recruited by competitive examination, promoted from the ranks...
ROYAL ETRANGER - 1921-2021 - A Century of History of the...
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ROYAL ETRANGER - 1921-2021 - A Century of History of the 1er REC

L20210154
€33.18
This large-format book traces a century of history of the 1er REC (Régiment Étranger de Cavalerie), a well-known unit of the French Foreign Legion. 100 years of heroism: from the first engagements in the Levant to the final clashes in the Sahel. 100 years of sacrifice: from the rice paddies of Indochina to the mountains of Afghanistan. 100 years of...
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Law and War from Yesterday to Today
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Law and War From Yesterday to Today

L20220144
€22.75
Starting from the premise that war does not permit all forms of violence, the law of armed conflict seeks to mitigate its harshness. This body of law is accordingly based on a complex balance between military necessity and humanitarian imperatives.Upholding this balance is the dilemma with which the combatant, and above all the military commander, will be...
The Modern Fighter's Handbook
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The Modern Combatant's Guide

L20220143
€18.96
In the wake of recent painful events, the French people seem to be discovering that their soldiers fight wars.Yet since the end of the Algerian War (1964), France has been present on numerous external theatres of operations (Chad, Mauritania, Lebanon, the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman… Côte d'Ivoire and Afghanistan). This guide is therefore addressed...
Intelligence and Performance Assessment: The Best of All Possible Outcomes
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Intelligence and Performance Evaluation: The Best of All Possible Worlds

L20220128
€23.70
As a consequence of the disarray provoked by the terrorist attacks that have bloodied the Western world, the effectiveness of intelligence services is regularly called into question. Is it really that straightforward, and first of all, how should their performance be assessed — according to what procedures, on what criteria, for what results — bearing in...
History of Radical Islam and Those Who Exploit It
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A History of Radical Islam and Those Who Exploit It

L20220124
€23.22
This work aims to offer a history of radical Islam, unsparing towards those who have used it to achieve their strategic objectives or who were unable to properly assess the threat it posed to the security of French citizens. This synthesis covers a period of nearly three centuries. It is based on a very extensive French and foreign bibliography. But it is...
Doctor in Afghanistan – Field Journal of an Ordinary Military Physician on External Operations
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Doctor in Afghanistan – Field Journal of an Ordinary Military Physician on Overseas...

L20220121
€24.64
A human adventure of a family man, a physician in uniform.Graveyard of empires, Afghanistan was for more than a decade a difficult and singular theatre of operations where French military personnel admirably carried out their duty far from home. This conflict has given rise to numerous works, and for the first time a French military physician shares his...
Terrorism and Security – They Take Us for Fools….
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Terrorism and Security – They Think We're Fools….

L20220120
€23.03
Between fantasies, disinformation and political exploitation, security never stops feeding the media and judicial headlines, regardless of which governments are in power and across all latitudes.Terrorism, drugs, financial crime, social violence — never has the crime industry prospered as much as during these past decades.In France, the State has the easy...
Enlist – France's Strategic Revival
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Engagez-vous – France's Strategic Relaunch

L20220116
€16.11
France seems to be lagging behind in a rapidly changing world. Its values, interests and convictions appear to carry little weight against the imperatives of a globalised governance dominated by media and markets that leave little room for politics and anaesthetise democracy.To relaunch France — which is the objective proposed by this work — it is...
Two Years in the Footsteps of Zamaraï Païkan, Afghan General and Hero
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Two Years in the Footsteps of Zamaraï Païkan, Afghan General and Hero

L20220114
€21.14
From Joseph Kessel to military personnel, diplomats and humanitarian workers, many French men and women have left a part of themselves in Afghanistan. These distant lands, at the borders of the imagination — dark and luminous, inhabited by people both so close and so foreign — constitute an ultimately chiaroscuro country: mythical, unclassifiable and...
Putin's Grand Chessboard
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Putin's Grand Chessboard

L20220112
€18.77
Vladimir Putin leaves no one indifferent. Sometimes demonised by the West, sometimes admired — especially in Russia and Slavic countries — he is here to stay. On the global geopolitical chessboard, the Kremlin's leader is a grandmaster. Putin is a pragmatist. He adapts to circumstances, to the strengths and weaknesses of his adversaries.More than ever,...
GEOCULTURE, a Plea for Sustainable Civilizations GEOCULTURE, a Plea for Sustainable Civilizations 2
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GEOCULTURE: A Plea for Sustainable Civilisations

L20220110
€15.92
Confronted with the shock of crisis, Europe is experiencing today more than a passing weakening. The mechanical application of recipes produced by liberal and technicist ideology has caused it to lose its footing. How can decline be reversed? Where better than within itself can the forces needed to regain balance and influence be found? Is it not in the...
MALI, a Peace to Win
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MALI, a Peace to be Won

L20220106
€22.37
The war in Mali is incomprehensible unless the testimony of its direct participants is combined with an in-depth reflection on the long-term instability of the Sahel region. Mali, a Peace to be Won presents for the first time the previously unpublished accounts of officers who held operational commands during the first weeks of the engagement. These...
Maritime Piracy: Africa Boarding
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Maritime Piracy: Africa Under Attack

L20220102
€17.54
What is the impact of piracy on the global economy? Should private companies participate in the fight against piracy? How can piracy be effectively combated? These are burning questions, as piracy in 2014 is assuredly the new scourge of the 21st century.
War and Crisis Notebooks 2011–2013
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War and Crisis Notebooks 2011–2013

L20220101
€22.37
Through chronicles of wars, crises and analyses of burning issues, this work offers the unsparing perspective of a paratrooper officer turned business leader — a man of both action and reflection — on the years 2011–2013, which marked a major inflection point in the international context shaping the security and economic development of France and Europe....
The Global Oceanic Shift
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The Global Oceanic Shift

L20220096
€14.03
Over the course of just a few years, and in the greatest discretion, a genuine oceanic shift has taken place around the Iranian pivot. Even as the seas represent the space par excellence in which demographically small but technologically advanced civilisations can assert themselves, Europe, the United States and Japan have allowed their influence over the...
Journey to the Land of Human Networks
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Journey into the World of Human Networks

L20220085
€27.49
The phenomenon of human networks — networks of influence, school networks, political networks, terrorist networks — seems more than ever to dominate the public stage. But what really lies behind these "networks" that appear in every newspaper article and on everyone's lips? After three years of patient investigative work, the author presents this study...
JIHAD: The Asymmetry Between Fanaticism and Incomprehension
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JIHAD, the Asymmetry Between Fanaticism and Incomprehension

L20220073
€25.59
Asymmetry remains a poorly understood concept in the fight against Islamist terrorism. Generally defined as a difference in the means employed, its essence is more subtle and defies Western principles of warfare. Unlike symmetric conflicts, asymmetry operates within a "non-zero-sum game" logic, where the tactical success of one party feeds the strategic...
Globalisation and Defence
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Globalization and Defence

L20220071
€28.44
Valérie Pécresse, in her preface, recalls that in these times of severe turbulence we need more than ever to remain alert to the world and to know how to read it in order to act within it. The IHEDN, an institute answerable to the Prime Minister, has as one of its vocations the stimulation of reflection and debate on the crucial question of our country's...
Encyclopedia of Terrorism and Organized Violence Encyclopedia of Terrorism and Organized Violence 2
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Encyclopedia of Terrorism and Organized Violence

L20220070
€36.97
Terrorism is neither an inevitability nor a doctrine. It is a method. A method placed in the service of the most diverse strategies and objectives. Even if attacks resemble one another, they most often respond to different ends. The fight against terrorism — or rather, terrorisms — requires a strategy adapted to each adversary, to its structures, its...
Encyclopedia of Intelligence and Secret Services Encyclopedia of Intelligence and Secret Services 2
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Encyclopaedia of Intelligence and Secret Services

L20220020
€30.33
A comprehensive presentation of the new global intelligence community in the post-Cold War era. Numerous organisational charts, diagrams and sketches, extensive bibliography, and internet site addresses.
Cognitive Warfare – The Weapon of Knowledge Cognitive Warfare – The Weapon of Knowledge 2
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Cognitive Warfare - The Weapon of Knowledge

L20220011
€25.59
The September 11 attacks legitimised the United States' security responsibility over the world. From that point on, conflicts of all kinds would be regulated by American politico-military power — or so President Bush asserted with vigour. Does this locking-down of the international balance of power concern France and Europe? Do we still have room for...
INTELLIGENCE AND ACTION — From the "Phoney War" to...
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INTELLIGENCE AND ACTION — From the "Phoney War" to Special Operations: 80 Years of...

L20210049
€18.96
This work is a plea for intelligence and a tribute to those who practise it. The analysis of the past, from the "drôle de guerre" of 1940 onwards, allows us to trace the evolution of this discipline leading to the current Direction du renseignement militaire — through multiple experiences on various theatres: the Gulf, Chad, the Balkans, Cambodia and...
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Recruitment in the French Foreign Legion - History and... Recruitment in the French Foreign Legion - History and... 2
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Recruitment in the French Foreign Legion - History and Evolution, 1831–2019

L20210039
€36.02
The recruitment of the Légion étrangère, over its 189 years of existence, has never ceased to evolve in response to numerous parameters that fiction does not glimpse or cannot reveal. The image of a charming and crafty adventurer, seeking redemption, wandering through sands and jungles at the whim of wars, is too fine a picture to withstand the filter of...
Targeted Killings - A Critique of Armed Liberalism
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Targeted Killings - A Critique of Armed Liberalism

L20210006
€23.70
How is war waged in the 21st century? Primarily by drones, by eliminating the enemy before he can cause harm. In Yemen, Afghanistan, Palestine or Pakistan, these operations known as "targeted killings " take place out of sight. Initially widely condemned in Europe and across the Atlantic, these practices became normalised from the 2000s onwards in the...
Shackled - The Trauma of War in the 21st Century
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Shackled - The Trauma of War in the 21st Century

L20200259
€24.55
« Every time I came home, after a while I would sink back down: the flashbacks would return, the nightmares would intensify. I discovered my wound and this new situation as the symptoms gradually manifested themselves. » Since time immemorial, some have returned from war wounded in the deepest part of their soul. Homer and Herodotus already gave voice to...
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