Anaïs knows that sometime in 2021, although the exact date remains to be determined, she will move up a rank from Squadron Leader to Wing Commander. This charming young woman also knows that she will be leaving the greyness of Air Base 105 in Evreux, 100 kms west-north-west of Paris, to take a command post under the sunnier skies of Martinique where she will be director of the State Aeronautics Centre. “At the civilian airport there is a military zone that I’ll be responsible for,” she tells me, adding enthusiastically that the advantage of working in the armed forces is “that you can have several careers in one”…