De l'art de la guerre napoléonien :
"Dès que la possibilité d'une guerre se profilait, Napoleon exigeait une série d'ouvrages historiques, géographiques, culturelles... qu'il lisait se forgeant une image claire de son adversaire."
David Chandler, The Compaigns of Napoleon.
RIP Lionel Jospin
J'ai perdu un mentor, un ami, et un partenaire de tennis et de petanque. Mais, surtout, la France a perdu un homme profondement integre, dont la seule motivation etait d'ameliorer son sort. Tristesse.
A striking analogy:
Vietnam: a war of choice, major US military domination, guerilla war. We know the outcome.
Iran: a war of choice, major US military domination, guerilla war, but this time on a global scale. Outcome?
FZ: Why Trump changed his mind to encourge the Kurds to join the fight against Iran ?
PG: The principal reason is that the Kurds declined to join the fight. Kurds are aware of Americans 51 years history of using the Kurds for military actions and then betraying them.
President Trump just walked back his previously stated hopes that the Kurds join the war against Iran. Why?
My conversation with former U.S. Ambassador and a former advisor to the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq Peter Galbraith:
@jacksonhinkle Their only advantage is their air forces. In the ground they would be swallowed by the Iranian army. Forget the Afghanistan or Iraq war !