Military, Democracy and Responsibility

The end of the military order is now placed in the long-term in the path to democracy of our societies, of all our societies. It is not about a beatific vision of a dreamed evolution, but of a reality based on a slow construction that we must constantly encourage: to create the conditions of a security that doesn’t only depend on an imposed force but rather on the permanent search of a balance between the different actors of a group of which the ultimate aspiration, whatever we say, rather aims at an appeasement of the social relations and the public life. We have just done the demonstration of it by gathering for the first time an international group of officers to have a reflection on this question, last October 6-10 in Chile, in a place where the project would have appeared to be impossible a few years ago. This opens to promising (...)