Olivier Schmitt
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 🇩🇰| olivier-schmitt.com
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- France in Denmark! Pleasure to welcome Patrick Ruestchmann and Antoine Bourguilleau at the Royal Danish Defence College for the wargaming conference brilliantly organized by Thomas Danger.
- Dark fantasy fans: rejoice! The final volume of the “Empire of the Vampire” trilogy is out! (The first two books are among the most intense and compelling page-turners I have ever read).
- International lulz: Exploring the strategic logic of trolling in diplomacy www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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- Implementing a new tool: Russia’s strategic use of migrants towards Norway and Finland 2015/16 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- If you speak Dutch, here is a long interview of me in NRC about European security www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
- #WeekendReading. This intellectual history of the concept of “the West”, which traces its origins in Auguste Comte’s anti-imperialism (cocorico🇫🇷) and the need to differentiate the “West” from “Europe” and its evolving understanding since the XIXth century.
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- And here it is! The pre-order page for “Preparing for War: Strategy, Power and Military Change” (publication on 19 February 2026). t.co/2MaaSwvrXb
- Le fils d’un professeur à Saint-Cyr victime de violence policières.
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- 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.
- Poincaré et Clemenceau sur Pétain: “esprit sombre, critique, inquiet”; “il n’a pas d’idées, il n’a pas de cœur”.
- 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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- « Seeing like a state » www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t...
- C’est pas l’intégralité de son « œuvre » qui relève de la pure fiction? On en apprend tous les jours
- Starting this one, on a controversial topic, and including controversial statements :-)
- <New Publication> 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’: brill.com/view/journal...
- 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". www.defnat.com/e-RDN/e-rece...
- 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…
- #WeekendReading An interesting book looking at how China is using cyber, antisatellite and precision strike capabilities to strengthen its deterrence and coercion activities. Another illustration of the dynamic relationship between political objectives, mil strategy and technological capabilities
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- Interrogé dans Le Monde sur le concept d’allié www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
- Forthcoming in the inaugural issue of « Law and Geoeconomics », with Anna Vlasiuk Nibe
- Heureux d’avoir contribué au numéro hors-série du journal @lemonde.fr avec un court article sur les mutations de la guerre depuis la fin de la Guerre Froide, et le risque du retour en force de l’agression au sein du système international.
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- The End of a Cold War Military Alliance in Europe: The Disappearance of the Warsaw Pact, 1985–1991 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
- This is an important article: contrary to popular belief, the decline of citizens’ willingness to fight for their country is not permanent. Proximity to ongoing conflicts actually increases the willingness to fight. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- Just a couple weeks ago, Trump’s sycophant Witcoff was comparing the Élysée palace (built before the US was even a country) to the insult to taste and eduction that is Mar-a-Lago. Now the Philistine-in-chief wears a blue suit and a blue tie to the Pope’s funerals.
- J’avais raté cette recension de « Préparer la Guerre » dans la Revue « Études »: « Cet essai documenté et exigeant illustre la vigueur de la recherche francophone actuelle dans le champ des études géostratégiques et de sécurité »: www.revue-etudes.com/critiques-de...
- Another data point on the Russification of the US under the Trump regime
- Well, it looks like our paper with Anna Vlasiuk Nibe entitled « Proxies, Partners or Opponents? Towards a Typology of Business/Government Relations in Geoeconomic Competition » has been accepted and will be published in the first issue of the new journal « law and geoeconomics »
- Et une nouvelle (et riche) recension de “Paris-Moscou: Un Siècle d’Extrême Droite”. revue.alarmer.org/paris-moscou...
- Happy to participate in the Delphi Economic Forum this week, with a panel on the Allied Defense Industrial Base and fighting power organized by RAND and RAND Europe, featuring Howard Shatz, Ruth Harris-Edwards and Emanuele Serafini.
- #WeekendReading We all know about the « Fighter mafia », which shaped the USAF development. But their was also an « airborne mafia » which influenced the US Army towards a specific type of elitism and light infantry action.
- So, how long before Trump establishes a political commissar corps tasked with monitoring the US armed forces and which will be headed by Laura Loomer?
- We’re not far from seeing Musk advocating for « purging » humanity from the « useless » ones. And considering his history of antisemitism and racism, it’s just a step away. But instead of having a Mein Kampf-like manifesto, we’ll have a series of tweets.
- Nouvelle recension de « Paris-Moscou, un Siècle d’Extreme-Droite », cette fois sur Telos. www.telos-eu.com/fr/politique...
