OPENING OF THE MEETING

Major General Thierry OLLIVIER Commanding the CDEF

Briefing by French Air Force General (Rtd) Jean RANNOU

SYMPOSIUM ACTS

The Armed Forces : guarantors of the nation's resilience capacity in the event of a major disaster on the homeland

FIRST ROUND TABLE : TESTIMONIES

Being able to draw lessons learned from recent crises and disasters

HURRICANE KATRINA : Lessons learned for aftermath management

HURRICANE KATRINA : Lessons learned from a "beyond the scope" crisis

Intervention of German military forces in the case of a large-scale natural disaster : The Elbe River floods (August 2002)

Evacuation of Vimy depot, from April 12^th to 20^th, 2001 : an exemplary civil-military cooperation

Committed armed forces during a disaster on the homeland

SECOND ROUND TABLE : FUTURES

To be ready : The Armed Forces and the future major crises

Military units assisting citizens

Armed forces intervention as seen by the populace

Nationwide operations coordination

Consequences for Land Forces "The dear Lord always forgives, sometimes man does, but nature never will"

CLOSING BRIEFING

General Elrick IRASTORZA, Chief of Staff, French Army