The Institute of Advanced Studies in National Defense spent six months in collaboration with advertising experts setting up a three-year campaign (at a cost of sixty million francs) aimed at sensitizing the public to the notion of defense and protection, using every means of information at their disposal to change the army's image (Le Monde, May 9, 1 975).
Joel le Theule, Gaullist deputy and chairman of the Finance Committee, thus has reason to worry, in his notes on "the military budget for 1 977- 1 982," about "the absence of numerical information on the use of funds"; for this fuzziness allows no appreciation of the shifts in our defense policies. The army insists on regaining its autonomy of action, on redefining itself as a public service able to assume in �· safe and orderly fashion the greatest number-even the totality-of civil and military defense tasks, again increasing the communal and industrial undertakings of its parallel initiatives. We can thus see just how far military unionism, advocated by the Communist League, the Unified Socialist Parry or the C.F.D.T. in the name of petty demands, finally enters into the army's social scheme. It is, moreover, revealing to see the creation of the first union branch in the 1 9th Army Engineering Corps, thus demonstrating that this body still remains at the forefront of military revolutionary thought!
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