The Diplomacy of the Jaguar

Lieutenant Colonel Laborie examines the role of French airpower in military conflicts in such areas as Mauritania and Chad in the 1970s and 1980s, Rwanda in 1994, Zaire in 2003, and the Central African Republic in 2007. His central thesis is that airpower determined the margin of victory in each instance and that the outcome of events in the Ivory Coast would have been different had there been a greater emphasis on airpower.