France creates a large space command
(B2) During July 14 ceremonies, French President Emmanuel Macron announced a novelty in organizational terms: the creation of a large space command. This from September. Space will not be an autonomous weapon. It will be the Air Force that will endorse futures » this responsibility, becoming « then » air force and space »(1)
Protect satellites even actively
The President thus endorses the new military space doctrine presented by his minister Florence Parly a few weeks earlier. That "will ensure our defense of space and through space ". Two objectives are set for this command: strengthen our knowledge of space activity" and "better protect our satellites, including actively ". A necessity to be present in the “ new confrontation zones what cyber and exo-atmospheric have become. And the French president to promise new investments “ indispensable ».
(NGV, in Paris)
- This has a certain logic and also represents an economy of means.
ping: Acting together, Emmanuel Macron's key word. A triptych for Defense Europe - B2 Bruxelles2
Political decision-makers are being rolled in flour with each proposal to create a “large medium command” type this time Space and in the recent past the Aircraft MCO, CyberDefence, Naval MCO, Human and Material Support etc The objective for some is only to create internal Defense “joint” structures accessible to the commands….which they would never have had in the 3 armies. The army staffs and the EMA mechanically have less and less scope of action and find themselves "begging" these structures of major independent and autonomous commands either for a specific MCO action, or three francs six cents for an unscheduled movement of a unit, etc. The unit commanders beg the local SCAs, the army staff and the EMA with the major departments and services who answer them “no arms, no chocolate”…
When will the creation of a large command independent of what goes under water?