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Bruno Lassalle

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Biographical information

Expertise

  • Defense and resilience
  • Information
  • Remote sensing (satellites and drones)
  • Deep fires (cannons, devices, missiles and drones)
  • Fighting in mountainous areas and in very cold weather
  • Participative innovation

Bruno Lassalle has been engaged in research activities since 2009. He draws his competence and legitimacy from his experience acquired during his military career as an army officer during which he served in the Artillery, the Mountain Troops, the Military Intelligence and the Mission for the Development of Participative Innovation.

His areas of expertise are focused on defence issues studied from a technical-operational perspective. These are, on the one hand, land-based weapons systems, including vehicles, missiles and drones, and on the other hand, joint intelligence and electronic warfare systems, including space-based Earth observation systems. He also has expertise in extreme cold, snow and avalanche conditions. He has a special interest for participative innovation.

Bruno Lassalle has regularly collaborated on studies or round tables conducted within the Ministry of Defence, which has led him to work with the General Staff of the Armed Forces, the Directorate General of Armaments, the General Secretariat for Administration and stakeholders from the defence industrial and technological base.

As part of his work with FRS, Bruno Lassalle has contributed to a large number of studies for the Armed forces ministry on a wide range of subjects (impact of climate change on the armed forces, challenges facing land forces, drones, space issues, Arctic issues, etc.).

Professional experience

During his career between 1973 and 2009, he alternated positions between the “fires in depth” function and the “knowledge and anticipation” function. He successively commanded the 93rd Mountain Artillery Regiment and the intelligence group of the Army’s Technical Section (STAT), and was deputy director in charge of planning and preparing for the future of the Directorate of Military Intelligence. After 2009, he held the position of Operational Deputy General of the Participative Innovation Mission (MIP) for three years.

Other activities

Bruno Lassalle has given lectures on innovation at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Électronique et de ses Applications (Marne-la-Vallée) and at the University of Technology in Compiègne. In 2023, he taught courses on remote sensing at Ecole des Ponts Paris Tech and Ecole Polytechnique.   

He has been the Secretary General of the French Institute for Resilience and Emotional Intelligence (IFRIE) since September 2023.

Education

Saint-Cyrien from the Lieutenant Darthenay class (1974-1976), Brigadier General Bruno Lassalle is an engineer from the Higher Course of Land Weapons Systems (CoSSAT), a graduate of the Ecole Supérieure de Guerre and an auditor of the 37th class of the Centre des hautes études de l’armement (CHEAR).

Publications

Books

  • « Éviter la paralysie tactique pour retrouver la liberté d’action sur les théâtres d’opérations », in Thibault Fouillet (ed.), La guerre au XXI siècle : le retour de la bataille, Editions du Rocher, 2023
  • « L’émergence du renseignement Japonais moderne de 1894 à 1918 », in Eric Denécé (ed.), Renseignement et espionnage pendant la première guerre mondiale, Ellipses, 2023 (with Jonathan Mourtont)
  • Les enjeux de l’innovation participative au ministère de la défense, collective book, Editions scientifiques internationales, 2013 (with Jean Luc Masset)

Articles

  • « La commune, premier cercle et foyer de la résilience de la Nation », Revue de Défense nationale, September 2023 (with Brice de Gliame)
  • « Sensibiliser les citoyens à la guerre cognitive », Revue de Défense nationale, March 2022 (with Brice de Gliame)
  • « France », in Alessandro Marrone, Karolina Muti (ed.), The Next Generation Soldier: A System of Systems Approach?, IAI, November 2021
  • « Le renseignement, phénix du 11 septembre », Notes de la FRS, n° 31/2021, 6 September 2021
  • « Le développement de l’impression 3D dans les Armées : une innovation de rupture ? », DEFENSE&industries, FRS, n° 14, June 2020 (with Alexandre Taithe)
  • Co-ordination of a special issue on drones for La jaune et la rouge, n° 718, October 2016

     
  • For the UN in the context of COP 21 :
    • Article « Défis et opportunités du développement durable et de l’adaptation au changement climatique en Afrique »
    • Article « Gestion durable des forêts et des terres »