Prénom de l'expert

Pierre

Nom de l'expert

NÉRON-BANCEL

Military fellow, Defense Research Unit of Security Studies Center, Ifri

Research Areas:

Air-land warfare
Role and challenges of Army's employment
Evolution of warfare
National territory

French soldiers during an exercise in the forest

Defense Research Unit

A soldier watching a sunset on an armored infantry fighting vehicle

Security Studies Center

Lieutenant colonel Pierre Néron-Bancel is a French Army officer working as a military fellow within the Defense Research Unit of IFRI’s Center for Security Studies, where his works focus mainly on French security and strategic challenges, more specifically on the future of land warfare, as well as the strategic role of the Army. He is graduated from Saint-Cyr, the French Army officer school, and from the Ecole de Guerre, as well as from the UK Advanced Command and Staff Course and holds a master's degree in International Relations and Strategy. A Foreign Legion officer, he served with the 13th Half brigade of the Foreign Legion in Djibouti, then in the 1st Foreign Cavalry Regiment near Marseille. He has been deployed in many operations overseas in Africa and in Middle-East as well as on the French soil.

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Publications

Studies

Stridsvagn 122 tank equipped with the 'Barracuda' Mobile Camouflage System (MCS) from SAAB AB

“At the Other Side of the Hill”: The Benefits and False Promises of Battlefield Transparency

27 May 2024

Recent conflicts have highlighted a key characteristic of contemporary warfare, unprecedented in its scale and impact on the conduct of operations: “battlefield transparency”.

Pierre NÉRON-BANCEL Guillaume GARNIER