THE LINDLEY-FRENCH ANALYSIS: SPEAKING TRUTH UNTO POWER

A Regular Commentary on Strategic Affairs from a Leading Commentator and Analyst
2023 Book: NATO - THE ENDURING ALLIANCE (London: Routledge) 2024 Book: THE RETREAT FROM STRATEGY with General Lord Richards (London: Hurst)

Sunday, 23 March 2025

Operation Varsity Plunder

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“The situation in the West has entered an extraordinarily critical, ostensibly almost deadly, phase”. Joseph Goebbels, March 24th, 194...

Friday, 7 March 2025

Making Europe Great (Power) Again: Defence or Pretence?

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(Note of The Alphen Group virtual conference 060325) President Trump has not caused a temporary crisis in transatlantic relations, but a p...

Thursday, 6 March 2025

Trump's NATO?

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What would Trump-friendly NATO look like? In January, The Alphen Group published Atlantic Charter 2025: A New NATO Deal for America in whi...

Monday, 3 March 2025

Be Careful, Mr President!

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Never has so much been owed to so many by so many? To paraphrase Winston Churchill on another occasion Dear President Trump, Be care...

Monday, 17 February 2025

Fog in the Atlantic, America Isolated?

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“The settlement of the Czechoslovak (Ukrainian?) problem which has now been achieved is, in my view, only the prelude to a larger settlement...

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Lindley-French's Blog Blast: Breda, Netherlands; Julian Lindley-French is Chairman of The Alphen Group, Senior Fellow of the Institute of Statecraft, Fellow of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, and Director of Europa Analytica. He was formerly Distinguished Visiting Research Fellow, National Defense University, Washington DC. Eisenhower Professor of Defence Strategy at the Netherlands Defence Academy,and Special Professor of Strategic Studies at the University of Leiden. He is a Fellow of Respublica in London, and a member of the Strategic Advisory Group of the Atlantic Council of the United States in Washington. Latest books: NATO: The Enduring Alliance 2023 (Routledge); Future War and the Defence of Europe 2022 (Oxford); The Oxford Handbook of War 2014 (Oxford) The Friendly-Clinch Health Warning: The views contained herein are entirely my own and usually do reflect those of any institution.

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