At the end of several months of work, the General Secretariat of Defense and National Security, published, on Monday, July 14, at the request of the Head of State, a new strategic national journal (RNS). This doctrine document traditionally enables the State to put its priorities flatly while accompanying its new budgetary objectives, as did Emmanuel Macron on Sunday, July 13, by announcing a new increase in defense expenses by 2027. The latest version of this RNS dates back to 2022 and was carried out in the precipitation at the start of the war in Ukraine. This new version is intended to be the fruit of more posed – but no less worried – reflections on the construction sites by 2030 to cope with the state of the world.
During his wishes to the armies, in January, Emmanuel Macron had asked that this RNS, of which only a part is made public, allows to define “The contours of our global defense and rearmament, including moral”. Six months later, it is done, with a document of a hundred pages, built around 11 “strategic objectives”, one more than in 2022. At the forefront of these objectives – which remain relatively unchanged – are always nuclear deterrence, the challenges of “resilience” of the nation and those of war economics. But the 2025 version of RNS adds an eleventh entitled “Academic, scientific and technological excellence”.
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