The journal Défense nationale et sécurité collective is an old lady born in 1939, initially entitled Revue des problèmes de défense nationale.

Over the years, our editorial line has broadened from being purely national to cover questions of collective security, but our aim has remained one of encouraging and enlivening new strategic thinking, institutional or not. And it was to widen our readership that we decided a little over a year ago to publish an English version of the journal.

Following a trial period, with print versions appearing in June, October, November and December last year, we are now able to produce an online version, beginning this month.

We hope you find this new format convenient, and will welcome your comments. We also hope that you will want to submit articles for publication, but also that you will become subscribers. Subscription details, for the traditional print or new electronic version, can be found on our website: www.defnat.com.

With best wishes for 2007 from the editorial team.