This military historian and former lieutenant-colonel delivers on Twitter his limpid analyzes of the conflict in Ukraine. BFM-TV has enlist it as a defense consultant.
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“To understand what the war is for Russian society, we must imagine, in a hardly justifiable commitment for her, a coffin of soldier who passes on the Alexandre-III bridge in Paris every 15 minutes, 24 hours on 24 hours and every day. “With some meaning of the image, the Military Historian and former troop colonel of Marine Michel Goya, 60, has established himself on Twitter (56,000 subscribers) as a must-see expert of the war in Ukraine. It publishes each day of the status accounts-shaped threads, illustrated by cards and supported by technical details. It has just been recruited as a consultant by BFM-TV.
A trail of the fighter
Son of a Spanish emigrant dead one month after his birth and a textile worker, Michel Goya did not do Saint-Cyr. He entered as a sub-officer in the army, before climbing the ladder to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. Passionate about rugby, father of family and good living, he has participated in important external operations in Yugoslavia, Rwanda, or Central African Republic in the 1990s, before resuming an academic path over the next decade. Graduate of the School of War and Doctor in History, he is appointed in 2007 Advisor to the Chief of the Armed Force on Doctrine issues. Since 2011 The sword “. He works “alone, with the Internet and the data available in open sources, including from US sites,” he says.
Sludation Sluder
“This is the best,” according to Jean-Dominique Merchet, a journalist specializing in defense issues. Featuring a huge historical culture, a modern war specialist, military innovation and combat behavior, Michel Goya has published numerous books. His thesis on the war of 14-18, flesh and steel, published in 2004 at Tallandier, is referring today. Highly solicited since the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine, This meticulous was shown – rare among media experts – capable of recognizing that he had overstated the Russian army . On Twitter, he also theorized the need for France to have one day of a “Projetable Guerrilla Capacity”
Franc-snipper
It would logically stop retired with the rank of General, but Michel Goya is not a “diverse student”, and the army does not like strong heads. So go for former colonel / consultant. In 2007, MICHEL GOYA denounced in an article the cost of armaments and predicted the end of the wars dominated by the Western High Technology, tacling the military aviation. Dassault Aviation had not appreciated, and had let it know.
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