With this issue , which marks the start of its eleventh year of publication, La Vigie reaches the magic number of published posts. In their own way, they describe the stages and hazards of the decade of strategic transition that France has just undergone in Europe and Europe in the world. So this is an opportunity to take stock of the decade. This annex to the regular issue will therefore take a different form: Each contributor will give his or her assessment, even those who have joined along the way: for once, the signatures will be individualised instead of the collective signature we are used to.
Launched in autumn , La Vigie is primarily a fortnightly online publication. It certainly conducts other activities studies, seminars, training, etc.
But the point of reference remains the newsletter, whose format is now well established: two articles barely three pages long and a free-form spyglass, more open to the mood of the moment, when the articles want to get to the heart of the matter. So we rarely react to immediate news. As a matter of policy, we prefer to wait for the dust to settle, for events to become clear and finally known, so that we can concentrate on the essence of our work: strategic synthesis.
Not analysis, but synthesis. The reader is a decision-maker who knows his or her environment, has little reading time available and is looking for a background tune-up every fortnight.
Without going back to some of our doctrinal pieces, it is not only a diagnosis but also the establishment of the goals to be reached and the paths to get there. The DNA of La Vigie is still very much military: for example, regular authors must have served in uniform regardless of rank, active or reserve and in central administration to understand the difficulties of choosing central staff. Similarly, they should have experience of high-level strategic analysis, if possible in research teams.
