BLANDIN, Henri <br/><br/>
Le contrôle général des armées 

 - Paris :  IIAP,  avrl/juin 1988 
<br/><br/> Directly subordinated to the Ministry of Defense, the Inspector General (IG) differ markedly from other monitoring and inspection bodies. This is due to history, geographically distributed duties and services and a dualistic tradition of civilian and military control. IG duties have kept pace with the military establishment: deterrence strategy led the IG to obtain thorough insight into preparedness and to enforce strict cost control. The radical changes to military thinking resulting from advanced technology caused the IG to ensure coherent coordination of procurement policy