Joseph Henrotin

Joseph Henrotin is a Belgian Politologue specialized in the questions of defense. After having made the hotel school of Libramont, it carries out a license in political sciences, speciality international relations with the ULB, university in which it will be then doctorand.

Consulting for RTBF during the War in Iraq and on RTL-TVI after the attacks of London, it specializes in the theory of the military strategy and the report/ratio which military technologies and the defense policies maintain. Author of very many articles in the specialized magazines ( Strategic , National defense , Defense & International Safety , Diplomacy Magazine , Technology & Armament , Re-examined Military Switzerland , Books of the RMES ) of the magazines and the daily press as well as chapters of works, it intervenes with measurement on polemical subjects and is one of the first to update the American military strategy in Iraq, insistent on the strategies of decapitation.

He is the author of the genetic Strategy in the strategy of the means (ISC, 2003), directed the work To the risk of chaos (Armand Colin, 2004) then wrote Airpower with the 21e century. Stakes and perspective of the air strategy (Bruylant, 2005), which will be worth the price to him Clement-Ader of the French Air force, in 2006. It also received the price 2004 of the CEPULB for the popularization of its work.

He is also cofounder of the multidisciplinary Network of strategic studies (RMES -) with Thierry Balzacq, Alain Of Firn, André Dumoulin, Raphaël Mathieu, Gordon Sarlet, Tanguy Struye de Swielande and Christophe Wasinski. Regarded as one of the figureheads of the Belgian strategic school, he also denounced the purchase by the Belgian defense of guns of 90mm () but also the stagnation of the strategic debates in Belgium ().

Vis-a-vis the terrorist risk, it also militated in favor of the theory of impact strength, taking original positions on the questions of security interior () and is the author of a report/ratio on his implementation on the Belgian territory. He will propose several concepts in addition, like that of technicisation (giving an account of the influence of the technique in the art of warfare) and of the technologisation (giving an account of the influence of technological constructions on the strategic action, of the tactical level up to the political level), but also of méso-terrorism or power aerurbaine.

Its work will primarily concern the technological figures associated with the Revolution in the military Businesses then the American Transformation, passing by articles on the technologisation/robotization of the combatant, the technological cultures, the evolution of the air power, the Japanese military strategy, the European and American military programs in their relation with the strategic cultures, the evolution of the theoretical strategy.

Initially collaborator of the magazine Defense and international safety (DSI -), he becomes about it then assistant editor association (he can be regarded as semi-official editor association), then in parallel editor association of the magazine Technologie and Armement , writing there many articles while interviewing many personalities of the international world of defense. In same time, it became in charge of research within the Center of analysis and forecast of the international risks (Capri). Responsible for research at the Institute of compared strategy, it also set up its blog, Athéna and me.

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