[BOOK] French Defense Policy Under President Macron, 2017-2021

Emmanuel Macron is the youngest leader of France since the emperor Napoleon. He is a man of vaulting ambition and historical sensibility (at least about his own historical importance), comparable (at least in his own mind) to the role played by General de Gaulle in sustaining French honor during the Second World War and its aftermath, and then in establishing the French 5th Republic with its assertion of presidential power within the French system of government and ending the long and bitter colonial war in Algeria. Macron came to power with a new political party made in his image. He…