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Yves Lacoste

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French geographer and geopolitician

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Yves Lacoste
Earth Sciences
#231
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#474
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Geography
#51
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#111
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According to Wikipedia, Yves Lacoste is a French geographer and geopolitician. He was born in Fez, Morocco. Life In 1976 he established the French geopolitical journal Hérodote and published a work that shook the French academy, La Géographie ça sert d'abord à faire la guerre. Its central thesis was that "geography was a form of strategic and political knowledge, central to the military strategy and the exercise of political power". Lacoste had earlier earned international renown in 1972 during the Vietnam War by publishing a spatial forensics analysis of the US bombing campaign of the Red River Delta. He agreed with claims from the North Vietnamese government that the US was deliberately targeting the hydrological infrastructure of the river in an attempt to trigger flooding and cause mass civilian casualties, which it called a war crime.

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