Julian Lindley-French

A regular contributor to Aspenia online, Julian Lindley-French is co-author of “Future War and the Defence of Europe”. He is also Chairman of The Alphen Group, Senior Fellow of the Institute for Statecraft and Fellow of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute.

Israel and Iran, like Athens and Sparta?

Julian Lindley-French Oct 3, 2024

It is a year since the barbarism of Hamas murdered over 1200 Israelis in the most disgusting manner possible. In that year many tens of thousands of innocents and not-so-innocent have been killed, maimed and broken in Gaza and now Lebanon,…

Il tempo della difesa europea

Julian Lindley-French Jul 3, 2024

Le tensioni geopolitiche hanno riacceso un dibattito, quello sulla difesa europea, che in più occasioni sembrava giunto a un punto di svolta. È difficile capire se si tratta davvero della volta buona, ma le sfide convergenti a cui l’Europa…

Britain in a world of growing nationalisms

Julian Lindley-French Mar 12, 2024

In 1848, a wave of revolutions swept across fifty European countries. Whilst many insurrections were driven by a liberal desire to overthrow aristocratic elites the underlying force was nationalism. 2024, I fear, will be 1848 redux: the…

The danger for Ukraine, peace by peace

Julian Lindley-French Aug 30, 2023

On August 23rd, 1939 Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia signed the Non-Aggression Pact” which not only paved the way for Hitler’s September 1st invasion of Poland but also set the scene for the most climactic event of the twentieth century –…

The Russo-Ukraine-Western Intelligence War

Julian Lindley-French Jun 27, 2023

In December 2021, several Western news outlets reported that that Moscow had massed some 70,000 troops on or close to Ukraine’s border with a further 175,000 of its most capable troops, mainly from the Western and Southern Military Border…

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