Issue 12 of Inframince, "the tactical image", examines how the image today sits at the meeting point of two deep trends: the hegemony of communication and the growing militarisation of exchange and space. Rather than a tool of representation, the image increasingly works as a tactical object. With texts by W.J.T. Mitchell, Caroline Bernard, Maxime Boidy, Nicolas Gourault and Nicolas Giraud and an interview with Emmanuel Guy, this issue studies how image and thought are weaponised in the conquest of minds as much as territory.