“An exceptional book. A detailed personal account of recent, very impressive, French combat operations in central Africa and long term thinking on the military and political challenges of similar campaigns, in Africa and elsewhere.”
--John Scarlett KCMG OBE, former Chief of the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), United Kingdom.
“Commanding a battlegroup composed of legionnaires and mountain troops, Dirou’s mission was broader and more complex than the pure use of military force against the armed groups terrorising the population. His book, combines story-telling power with the insights of a seasoned soldier whose battlegroup conducted itself with expertise and distinction in an often inhospitable terrain. It is an important contribution to our understanding of today’s conflicts”.
-- Jon Swain, war reporter and author of “River of Time”, United Kingdom.
