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La nomination de Thierry Carlier, numéro deux de la DGA, aux fonctions d’ambassadeur de France en Suède démontre la volonté française de faire du pays un allié de premier plan en matière de défense challenges.fr/monde/defense-…

My analysis of the EU White Paper on Defence for the ICDS Tallinn is available here 👇 icds.ee/en/eu-defence-…

Good conversation with Benjamin Hart. nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Quand Trump prend une décision, la réaction la plus sage est…. d’attendre qu’il la corrige, l’annule ou l’oublie.

No. (And thanks for another piece of US-based unsolicited advice.)

Excellent meeting today with my French counterpart, Minister of the Armed Forces Sébastien Lecornu. We discussed the imperative need for Europeans to meet a 5% defense spending commitment to restore deterrence with ready, lethal conventional forces. 🇺🇸🇫🇷

Thank you French Minister of the Armed Forces Sébastien Lecornu, DG for International Affairs and Strategy Rufo Alice Rufo, Directrice Générale de la DGRIS for engaging with the small but vibrant 🇨🇵 in 🇺🇲 think tank community. Iskander Rehman Astrid Chevreuil Stephanie Pezard

So happy to be part of this amazing French atomic women crew at #NukeCon 💪🏻 Leonie Allard Margaux Bonnet Astrid Chevreuil #GirlPower

EU spokesperson tells me: no plans to drop sanctions on China just because Beijing s lifting sanctions on some MEPs "The EU has not observed changes in the human rights situation in China/Xinjiang. Therefore, the Council maintains the China/Xinjiang - related designations"

True. So, the US should put pressure on Russia in response to its latest show of contempt for peace and this administration's efforts to achieve it. Marc Thiessen 🇺🇸❤️🇺🇦🇹🇼🇮🇱 Marshall S. Billingslea

LIVE NOW | French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot joins Fred Kempe for an #ACFrontPage conversation. x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

May 8 will mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II—the beginning of the rules-based international order, says 🇫🇷 French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot at an #ACFrontPage. The US built this architecture, not out of charity, but out of enlightened self-interest, he adds.

🇫🇷 Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean-Noël Barrot joined the Atlantic Council Atlantic Council in Washington, D.C. for an engaging and timely #ACFrontPage conversation. Rewatch here: youtube.com/watch?v=lsN9GX…

We here at DOD will work closely with France to enable this effort and to support – rather than detract from, as has too often been the case in the past – confident, self-reliant European leadership. 4/4

High level introductory panel at ICDS Tallinn #LennartMeriConference, 🇵🇱 Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski 🇵🇱🇪🇺 to newly appointed 🇺🇸 amb to NATO M. Whitaker after he snapped at EU defense policies: “you will learn to love the EU, ambassador!” 1/2

At #LennartMeriConference, U.S. Ambassador to NATO says that he expects Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський will be at the NATO Summit 2025 - The Hague though the details must be worked out. Matthew Kroenig

As it works toward realizing its Golden Dome initiative, the Trump administration should hold a revived missile defense dialogue with its allies and partners in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, write Leonie Allard and Jean-Loup Samaan. atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atla…

Read my last piece for ICDS Tallinn on the treaty recently signed between France and Poland in Nancy which includes an interesting section on (European) defence 👇

Embarquement. Après une semaine complète en Asie du Sud-Est, au Vietnam, en Indonésie puis à Singapour, je rentre avec un nombre, une fierté et une volonté. Le nombre d’abord, c’est

DC friends, I will be chairing this event at the French Embassy with the great Julian Jackson on the lessons of De Gaulle’s strategic vision on Friday June 20th. More details to follow, but you can already sign up here: eventbrite.fr/e/general-de-g…