The military air about the school is no coincidence. Harbulot used to work for a subsidiary of the French arms export agency and got its help to launch the school in 1997. One of his lecturers is retired General Jean Pichot-Duclos, former head of the French military intelligence school. A small but growing number of the 25 students taken in each year comes from the military. Our main weapon is not poison or a revolver, but an operation of encirclement and intrusion by knowledge.
Polemics is really a French art.
It can become an arm in a broadly understood culture of intelligence. There are lots of info-wars behind those questions. Duclos identify the targets their knowledge should attack. Harbulot, who was a Maoist activist in the 1970s, sees international business competition in terms reminiscent of the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu. One should seek out the adversary's weak points and work out how to reveal them.