About the Author

Major General Eric Bonnemaison commands the Saint-Cyr Military Academy (the French equivalent of West Point and Sandhurst). During his distinguished military career, he has advanced from a platoon leader conducting counterinsurgency operations in Chad, to battalion commander in Bosnia, to Marine brigade commander in several locales, including Afghanistan. He is a former faculty member of the Africa Center for Strategic Studies (at National Defense University), and he served as Africa and Middle-East adviser to the French Minister of Defense. Lieutenant General David Huntoon is superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Dr. Paolo Tripodi is head of the Ethics Branch at Lejeune Leadership Institute, Marine Corps University.