Politics Mandate for Resilience: Analyzing General Mandon's Speech and the Revival of Comprehensive Defense in France
This report is an in-depth analysis of the speech delivered by the Chief of the General Staff of the French Armed Forces (Chef d'État-major des armées, CEMA), General Fabien Mandon, at the 107th Congress of Mayors and Heads of Intermunicipal Unions of France (AMF) in November 2025. The report assesses the strategic imperatives behind his resonant statements, their impact on military-civil relations, and their role in France's national resilience doctrine (résilience nationale) amid geopolitical degradation.