Josselin Droff, Friederike Richter and Julien Malizard, researchers at the Chaire Économie de Défense - IHEDN, have published a report on the economy of defence. article in The Conversation.
This article, entitled «The military and COVID-19», looks at the role played by defence players - the armed forces and the arms industry - in Europe since the beginning of the Second World War. health crisis.
A range of players mobilised
Faced with the’COVID-19 epidemic, In the first and second lines, we find cashiers, shopkeepers, teachers, police officers, industrialists, deliverymen, soldiers, firemen, carers and social workers.
The contribution of defence players
The players in the military world have occupied a place in the managing this crisis. Through examples of actions conducted by the armed forces and the arms industry, the article compares the role played by these players, in France and four neighbouring countries (Germany, Spain, Italy and the United Kingdom), as part of the global strategy to combat COVID-19.
Fundamental questions about the «missions of the armed forces»
Based on the concept of «military value chain», the article highlights and discusses certain recurring questions in the military world but particularly highlighted by the current health crisis: «the »core business" of the armed forces and diversification of their missions, redeployability of assets specific to the armed forces (equipment, for example), size of stocks in crisis management and adequacy of resources (equipment, staff, budgets) missions.
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