Jean-Philippe Miller-Tremblay is a post-doctoral researcher in history at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS, Paris) and a lecturer in establishments of higher education in France (École Polytechnique, Sciences Po Paris, Institut Catholique de Paris). His research and teaching focusses on delineating the aesthetic dimension of modern warfare. After finishing a PhD on the sociocultural resilience of close order drill in the military and civilian spheres in Great-Britain and France around the First World War, he now studies the use of fragments of weapons in the making of precious objects during the war in Ukraine. His recent works include: “Holding the line: Military imaginaries and British shipwrecks during the First World War” (forthcoming); “Guerre et techniques du corps (War and techniques of the body)”, Invention, subversion, sidération : Faire de l’histoire avec Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau, Editions du Cerf, 2024.