Information about French defense policy, spending, and military technology trends.

[Evanna Lynch]

I'm doing a research and i need some documents or links about French defense policy, defense spending, and military technology trends period 2000-2010, if someone can help me i will much appriciate.

[Szarko32c]

http://milexdata.sipri.org/
http://www.defense.gouv.fr/content/d...nse%202000.pdf

[Nansouty]

This blog too is well informed :
http://www.marianne2.fr/blogsecretdefense/

[Bidoul33t]

I'm doing a research and i need some documents or links about French defense policy, defense spending, and military technology trends period 2000-2010, if someone can help me i will much appriciate.

For a university work I strongly recommend direct sources, mainly the Senate and Assembly defense commission reports. That's were most journalists get their "inside sources", in public data...

There you go.
Senate:
http://www.senat.fr/*******s-classes/cretrd.html (Missing word is Rapport).
Assembly:
http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/co.../59046_tab.asp

That's all the data you need from precise doctrine points on X or Y, from detailed expenses.

Personally I always though the Senate reports and website clearer than the ones of the Assembly (they are classed by sessions and years, then by types).

That's "dry" data and obviously it's in French.

On doctrine and military insight you have the various publication of the Army (http://www.cdef.terre.defense.gouv.f...blications.htm ), including the quarterly published "Doctrine Tactique" that is published in english too: http://www.cdef.terre.defense.gouv.f...octrine_us.htm .

For example that one might have all of what you need http://www.cdef.terre.defense.gouv.f...eflections.htm

(Personally again I prefer the "cahiers de la DREX", that are usually more "in depth" works, but those are mostly in French even if some are NATO ready and have both version inside).