The author voices here the uneasiness of officers of all three services with regard to their future. They are undergoing a crisis which is apparent in a number of opinion polls and reports, including that of the High Committee for the Evaluation of the Military Condition: a decrease in numbers joining, an increase in unprompted retirements, low morale, and so on. Hope was placed on the statements made by the Minister for Defence during the 75th meeting of the High Committee for Military Matters (CSFM) in March 2007 regarding improvements in pay. Three months later Hervé Morin, the successor to Michèle Alliot-Marie, pushed back all index-linked improvements to 2009, which leads one to fear the worst.