Since the 1990s, African armed forces have been the subject of significant amount of doctrinal production devoted to Security Sector Reform (SSR). However, beyond the efforts to rebuild fragile security apparatuses, it’s worth to indicate that one dimension has been underestimated: the process of civil-military hybridisation of the armed forces, which is less commonly used under the expression "dual forces" constitutes the main objective of this study. The dual function of the army is its ability to conduct defense and development missions. In this perspective, the military engineers, "building arm" of the State of Cameroon, is regularly commissioned to carry out local development missions. How do Cameroonian military engineers apprehend th...