More than 50 years after the passing of the hero of Free France, is Europe having a de Gaulle moment? The question echoes in ...

Macron may not yet be bragging about it, but his crusade for strategic autonomy seems at long last to be vindicated ...

For the foreseeable future a conventional approach to defence, perhaps backed by British and French nuclear assets, remains ...

Roosevelt agreed when his ambassador to Vichy, Admiral William D. Leahy, described de Gaulle as “an apprentice dictator”. There is a chilling echo in Trump’s description of Volodymyr Zelensky as a ...

In the early days of the Cold War, former President Charles de Gaulle developed a nuclear deterrent that was designed to be fully independent from the two dominant powers of the time, the Soviet Union ...

It’s a new day in Europe. Gone are the halcyon years of unshakeable American commitment to Europe’s defense against Russia.

Sixty-four years ago, with the world gripped by the fear of a nuclear confrontation between superpowers, France's ...

When Charles de Gaulle published the first volume of his war memoirs, in 1954, it looked like an acknowledgment that he no longer belonged to the present, but to history. His achievements during the ...

With Trump accusing Zelensky of “gambling with World War III” and demanding more gratitude for American support, all on camera, the encounter was one of the most hostile public clashes between a ...

Though not nuclear-powered, the America-class vessels are similar in size to the French Navy’s flagship aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle ... Second World War and early Cold War, while the ...

On the other hand, many American right-wingers display contempt for a continent they regard as impotent, decadent and ...