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Prof at Institute for Military Operations, Royal Danish Defence College/senior associate fellow at NATO Defence College |Warfare, alliances and geoeconomics | Assoc ed of the European Journal of International Security |🇫🇷 in 🇩🇰| https://olivier-schmitt.com/ .. more

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Olivier Schmitt @olivierschmitt.bsky.social · Nov 10

Well, since I start reengaging on this network, I might as well announce it here: I will leave the University of Southern Denmark at the end of this year, and will join the Institute for Military Operations at the Royal Danish Defence College in January

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Patrick Marques @pmarques35.bsky.social · 6d

[1/10] Olivier Schmitt (Université du Danemark du Sud), publie dans Politique étrangère (n°3, automne 2025) "Défense de l’Europe : la nouvelle crise des fondements". Il y analyse la redéfinition de la sécurité européenne face à la Russie, aux USA et à la fragmentation interne. #HGGSP #geography

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Reuters @reuters.com · 18d

France's Dassault Aviation says it could build new fighter jet alone if needed reut.rs/46gZGp0

France's Dassault Aviation says it could build new fighter jet alone if needed

Dassault Aviation 's head said on Tuesday the French planemaker could independently develop the next generation of European fighter jets, escalating tensions with Germany over leadership in a joint 100-billion-euro ($118 billion) defence project.

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Olivier Schmitt @olivierschmitt.bsky.social · 23d

And here it is! The pre-order page for “Preparing for War: Strategy, Power and Military Change” (publication on 19 February 2026).

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https://amzn.eu/d/fafySpZ

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Olivier Schmitt @olivierschmitt.bsky.social · 23d

Le fils d’un professeur à Saint-Cyr victime de violence policières.

Stéphane Taillat @staillat.bsky.social · 23d

Merci à @surlechampfr.bsky.social d'avoir porté secours aujourd'hui à mon fils, victime d'une charge injustifiée et brutale à Paris. Message de service: étant donné son passif médical, les séquelles d'un coup porté à la tête aurait pu être beaucoup plus grave. C'est irresponsable.

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Stéphane Taillat @staillat.bsky.social · 23d

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Julien Maire @european-military-aircrafts.net · Aug 20

"L’Europe contre les Tyrans : un plan"

L'Europe & l'OTAN, vis-à-vis de leur propre avenir, vis-à-vis des USA, de la menace russe et de la situation en Ukraine.

Long interview de @olivierschmitt.bsky.social avec un constat d'axiomes que bcp partagent :

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L’Europe contre les Tyrans : un plan | Le Grand Continent

Il y a presque un an, il avait prévu que l’on en serait là. À partir d'une analyse sans concession du moment — inspirée par sa lecture de Raymond Aron —, Olivier Schmitt ne se contente pas de propose...

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François-Xavier Demoures @fxdemoures.bsky.social · Aug 19

@olivierschmitt.bsky.social : « Nous faisons face à une alternative décisive : soit préserver une démocratie pluraliste et constitutionnelle, soit basculer vers des formes d’autoritarisme selon des gradations différentes. » 1/2

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L’Europe contre les Tyrans : un plan | Le Grand Continent

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Fabien Escalona @fabienescalona.bsky.social · Feb 25

Entretien avec @olivierschmitt.bsky.social.
“La dissuasion coûte toujours moins cher que la guerre elle-même.” www.mediapart.fr/journal/inte...

« La France doit donner la priorité à la défense de l’Europe »

Pour le chercheur Olivier Schmitt, les États-Unis se transforment en adversaire des démocraties libérales, qui dépendaient d’eux pour leur sécurité. La France n’aurait pas le luxe d’un « solo stratég…

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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · Mar 5

A small drop in an ocean of suck, but for the past few weeks friends have let me know that my book (Divided Armies), along w/ related articles + briefings, was removed from DoD reading lists & curricula for being "too woke"

Now JFQ has literally "unpublished" its review & any mention of the book ⬇️

Graham W. Jenkins @grahamj.bsky.social · Mar 5

Everything is unbelievably stupid, and among this is Joint Force Quarterly being forced to unpublish multiple articles and some entire issues as far back as *2006* because of "DEI material"

Recently PULLED Full JFQ editions that include the following articles
JFQ 93 (full issue)
Warrior Women: 3,000 Years in the Fight By Mary Raum JFQ 93
Military Medicine: The Gender Gap in Trauma Training By Daniel P. McGarrah

JFQ 101 (full issue)
Buy Now, Get Paid with Diversity Later: Insights into Career Progression of Female
Servicemembers By Monica Dziubinski Gramling and Warren Korban Blackburn
JFQ 104 (full issue)
Retaining Female Leaders: A Key Readiness Issue By Benjamin Ramsey, Ann Bednash, and
John Folks
JFQ 109 (full issue)
A More Perfect Union: Black Soldiers and the Promise of America By John Nagl and
Charles D. Allen
JFQ 110 (full issue)
Enhancing National Security Increasing Female Faculty in Professional Military
Education Would Strengthen U.S. Security By Magdalena Bogacz
JFQ 111 (full issue)
Absent From the Front: What the Case of the Missing World War II Black Combat Soldier
Can Teach Us About Diversity and Inclusion By Bryon Greenwald

Recently Hidden/Unpublished Pages/Webpages for NDU Press Articles
An Ancillary Duty?: The Department of Defense Approach to Women, Peace, and
Security in Security Cooperation Programs
By Barbara Salera Lopez PRISM Vol. 10, No. 3
-talks about feminist theory, inclusivity, and integration of a “gender perspective” in
security cooperation activities

Women, Regardless: Understanding Gender Bias in U.S. Military Integration By Elizabeth
M. Trobaugh JFQ 88
A Strong Fighting Force Is a Diverse Fighting Force By Larry O. Spencer JFQ 76
Enhancing National Security: Increasing Female Faculty in Professional Military
Education Would Strengthen U.S. Security By Magdalena Bogacz JFQ 110

The Counterproductive “Sea of Sameness” in PME By Joan Johnson-Freese, Ellen Haring,
and Marybeth Ulrich JFQ 43


Books

Divided Armies: Inequality and Battlefield Performance in Modern War By Jason Lyall
Princeton University Press, 2020
Women on the Frontlines of Peace and Security 2015

JFQ Authors,

Your NDU Press team that produces Joint Force Quarterly (JFQ) was directed to “scrub” our website for any material that is defined in the attached memo. We were given until 5 March at noon (assume EST) to comply.

The MSWord document attached details our compliance which includes six issues and eleven articles including one from PRISM as well as one book tied to our site from another published and a book we published.

My team has disabled several JFQ links to comply and due to conditions here on my team, we have a larger “cut” than necessary to just remove the articles that fit the definition in the policy. We did so in this way due to the time allowed to comply. As an example, we have disabled some entire editions due to technical reasons, most often it would take more time to be precise to meet the deadline in the memo.

The editorial decisions on what was removed was mine to make and any mistakes I have committed are mine. I and my NDU Press team is committed to returning any material that doesn’t meet this policy’s constraints as soon as possible.

As we receive additional guidance and our abilities to be more precise in our digital offerings, I anticipate some material will be returned to the website. For now, articles that fit my interpretation of the memo have been removed from view.

I appreciate your concern for your work which was properly vetted when it was prepared to be published. Of course, DoD used the policies in place at the time your articles were submitted for review. It would seem those policies are changing. I am committed to seeking relief as best I can for the return of your articles.

Please reach out to me if you have any questions or would like to talk with me about this action.

Sincerely,

Bill

William T. Eliason, Colonel, USAF (Ret), PhD

Director, NDU Press

Editor in Chief, Joint Force Quarterly

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Julien Maire @european-military-aircrafts.net · Jul 1

J'en profite :
Un livre aussi à conseiller :

(abordable en prix, abordable en lecture)

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Olivier Schmitt @olivierschmitt.bsky.social · Jun 30

Son père était Français, donc il a techniquement grandi bilingue, mais oui, c’est toujours sympa

Olivier Schmitt @olivierschmitt.bsky.social · Jun 30

Happy to have celebrated the 14th of July (in advance) aboard the LHD « Mistral », which was in Copenhagen as part of the mission « Jeanne d’Arc ». Beautiful moment when His Majesty Frederik X participated in the ceremony, and delivered his speech in French.

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Olivier Schmitt @olivierschmitt.bsky.social · Jun 29

Poincaré et Clemenceau sur Pétain: “esprit sombre, critique, inquiet”; “il n’a pas d’idées, il n’a pas de cœur”.

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Olivier Schmitt @olivierschmitt.bsky.social · Jun 28

Très heureux et honoré de recevoir le "Prix Maréchal Foch" de l'Académie française pour "Préparer la Guerre". Et de rejoindre ainsi mes amis
@jbjv.bsky.social et Jean-Vincent Holeindre parmi les lauréats.

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Olivier Schmitt @olivierschmitt.bsky.social · Jun 25

Moi j’aime le Paisley

Olivier Schmitt @olivierschmitt.bsky.social · Jun 25

Oulah, je en me ferais pas confiance à moi-même là-dessus

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Fragments sur les Temps Présents @tempspresents.bsky.social · Jun 2

Compte-rendu de "Paris Moscou un siècle d'extrême droite" d' @olivierschmitt.bsky.social et Nicolas Lebourg shs.cairn.info/revue-apres-...

Paris Moscou. Un siècle d’extrême droite

Pas encore de compte ?

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Olivier Schmitt @olivierschmitt.bsky.social · May 30

« Seeing like a state »

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Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans

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Olivier Schmitt @olivierschmitt.bsky.social · May 29

Pas si longtemps
www.lemonde.fr/societe/arti...

Augustin de Romanet, Jean-Pierre Jouyet et Alain Bauer condamnés dans l’affaire de favoritisme à la Caisse des dépôts

Les deux anciens dirigeants de la Caisse des dépôts ont été condamnés respectivement à huit mois de prison avec sursis et 200 000 euros et 30 000 euros d’amende. Le médiatique criminologue a, lui, été...

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Olivier Schmitt @olivierschmitt.bsky.social · May 29

Il y a des factures à payer et ce n’est plus possible d’utiliser les copains pour obtenir des marchés publics de complaisance.

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Olivier Schmitt @olivierschmitt.bsky.social · May 29

C’est pas l’intégralité de son « œuvre » qui relève de la pure fiction? On en apprend tous les jours

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Olivier Schmitt @olivierschmitt.bsky.social · May 27

On a parfois l’impression de bouts de textes collés ensembles (et c’est le cas, je reconnais certains de ses textes précédents dans le chapitre, dont un que l’on assigne à nos stagiaires école de guerre)

Olivier Schmitt @olivierschmitt.bsky.social · May 27

C’est d’ailleurs ce qui est intéressant avec Vego, c’est qu’il résume très clairement les conceptions soviétiques et allemandes qu’il connaît par cœur (en partie du fait de ses origines), mais la page d’après écrit qq chose tt a fait contradictoire avec les pages précédentes

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Olivier Schmitt @olivierschmitt.bsky.social · May 27

Je pense qu’on dit la même chose, quand je dis que cette compréhension de l’AO est « controversée », c’est justement car d’autres compréhensions existent qui n’en font pas une « recette de la vitesse » (j’avais écrit sur cette fascination occidentale ailleurs)

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Olivier Schmitt @olivierschmitt.bsky.social · May 27

Moi aussi…

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Olivier Schmitt @olivierschmitt.bsky.social · May 27

Starting this one, on a controversial topic, and including controversial statements :-)

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Olivier Schmitt @olivierschmitt.bsky.social · May 25

In the article, we develop a framework of how state and companies can interact, voluntarily or not, in order to support the state’s statecraft objectives.
Email me if you want a copy and don’t have access.

Olivier Schmitt @olivierschmitt.bsky.social · May 25

Very happy that our article with Anna Vlasiuk Nibe entitled « Proxies, Partners or Opponents? Towards a Typology of Business/Government Relations in Geoeconomic Competition » is now available with ‘Law and Geoeconomics’:

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Olivier Schmitt @olivierschmitt.bsky.social · May 22

Recension de "Préparer la Guerre" dans la Revue Défense Nationale par le Capitaine de Vaisseau Lavernhe: "une pierre majeure à l’édifice francophone de la réflexion conceptuelle sur les ressorts de l’évolution dans les organisations militaires".

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RDN en ligne || e-Recensions

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Olivier Schmitt @olivierschmitt.bsky.social · May 19

Received this book on how strategy is being taught in the US, France and Czechia, which references the lectures on strategy I gave when I was at the @ihedn.bsky.social as examples of dialectical thinking.
Apparently, there is a « Schmitt’s triangle » now…

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