Getting our thinking straight

Getting our thinking straight. Major-General Vincent DESPORTES, Director of the Joint Services Defence College (CID), Paris.

The harsh reality of the world and the difficulties we have in dealing with it drive us to one simple conclusion : we have to get out thinking straight. We have reached the limits of the technical effectiveness of our military power, and now have great difficulty in getting it to produce the desired political results. So we must reinvigorate our strategic thinking, because only reflection will allow us to escape the impasse we are in, and restore its utility to armed force in global crisis resolution. And we must renew the vigour of strategic reflection in France, together with the tools for enhancing it.

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