To the great and shrewd old Empire builder, to the man with a brain so extensive that the top of his head is somewhat flat, to Hubert Marshal Lyautey there came four years ago an appropriately ...

Key Point: France wants to build an aircraft carrier. But is it merely symbolic, an expression of la gloire de la France? At the recent Euronaval conference, Defense Minister Florence Parly announced ...

To speak today of the French Colonial Empire is, of course, to speak of something belonging to the past. Juridically speaking, the Empire replaced it by the vague and never clearly defined concept of ...

With the defeat of France the world’s second largest empire returned to the international crucible. With the British Navy controlling the sea, the French could no longer defend it, the German ...

One of modern history’s major empires is falling apart right now, right before our eyes. Yet precious few in the media have reported on this extraordinary event, much less offered any analysis of its ...