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The French naval strategy

Talk in English
by le Capitaine de vaisseau 
Julien Lalanne de Saint-Quentin
Attaché naval à l' Ambassade de France au Royaume-Uni
(This is the first of two independent talks.  The second one " France and the UK: strategic twins?", more details shortly)
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Thursday 25 March 2021
6.00pm  - 7.30pm Over Zoom

Free for FBS members
£8.00 for guests ( £10.00 with Paypal)
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If, for Robert Tombs, France and the United Kingdom first built themselves up against each other, it was first and foremost through their navies. 
The Franco-British rivalry has often been cited as an archetypical confrontation between a maritime power and a continental power. 
But since the 1970s, the successive revolutions of oil, containers, EEZs and now submarine cables have perhaps transformed France into a leading maritime power. 
Faced with this paradigm shift, what naval strategy for France in the 21st century?
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Julien de Saint-Quentin is a Naval Officer with 25 years of mostly seagoing experience. He commanded 3 patrol boats in the Caribbean and a frigate in the Indian Ocean and served a total of 6 years in exchange posts with the Royal Navy, including as a Strategy and Policy Adviser to the First Sea Lord on FR/UK matters. Between 2016 and 2020, he was speechwriter to Admiral Prazuck, the head of the French Navy. Captain de Saint-Quentin holds an LLM in Public International Law and currently serves as Naval Attaché to the French Embassy in London. Education: Ecole Navale (Brest), Ecole de Guerre (Paris), University College London.
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