In order to keep the initiative on the ground and to be in full command of the threats when engaged on operations, the Air Force takes pains to reduce its own vulnerabilities and seeks to strengthen its modes of action and, with no limits set on imagination, to develop new ones. To this end, the Air Force has developed a capability unique in the field that favours the growth of new tactical thought processes and allows numerous projects of great operational value to be put into effect. Lire la suite

Contest for space, and especially airspace, is becoming more hard-fought as a result of anti-access and area denial (A2/AD) strategies. A2/AD strategies are now keeping our forces at bay through a combination of firm defence action, attacks and harassment at hitherto unknown levels: such strategies are now established in the new battlefields of space and cyber space. Lire la suite

La contestation des espaces, notamment aérien, s’accélère via des stratégies de déni d’accès (A2/AD ⁽¹⁾). Repoussant nos forces au loin par une combinaison d’actions de défense ferme, d’attaques et de harcèlement à des échelles jusqu’alors inconnues, la stratégie de déni d’accès investit désormais les nouveaux champs de bataille que sont l’espace et le domaine cyber. Lire la suite