{"id":1416227,"date":"2022-04-02T16:14:49","date_gmt":"2022-04-02T20:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1416227"},"modified":"2022-04-02T16:14:52","modified_gmt":"2022-04-02T20:14:52","slug":"french-military-intelligence-chief-fired-for-failing-to-predict-russian-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/french-military-intelligence-chief-fired-for-failing-to-predict-russian-invasion\/","title":{"rendered":"French Military Intelligence Chief FIRED for Failing to Predict Russian Invasion"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffrench-military-intelligence-chief-fired-for-failing-to-predict-russian-invasion%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1416227&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">French military intelligence chief General Eric Vidaud is to lose his job over the failure to predict Vladimir Putin\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, in a rare example of Western high officials facing real consequences for institutional failure.<\/p>\n<p>General Vidaud, who has headed the\u00a0Directorate of Military Intelligence (DRM) for seven months, will depart immediately due to \u201cinsufficient briefings\u201d and a \u201cfailure to master the issues,\u201d according to\u00a0French Ministry of the Armed Forces report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2022\/03\/31\/french-military-intelligence-chief-leaves-job-over-ukraine-war-failures-report\">cited<\/a> by European Union-funded news outlet Euronews.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>General Thierry Burkhard, France\u2019s current Chief of Defence Staff, had to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/international\/article\/2022\/03\/06\/guerre-en-ukraine-le-rouleau-compresseur-russe-risque-de-finir-par-passer-selon-le-chef-d-etat-major-des-armees_6116336_3210.html\">admit<\/a> in an interview with <em>Le Monde<\/em>\u00a0in early March that \u201c[t]he Americans said that the Russians were going to attack, and they were right,\u201d while\u00a0\u201cOur services rather thought that the conquest of Ukraine would have a monstrous cost and that the Russians had other options [to bring down the Ukrainian government].\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>While the DRM appears to have tried to defend its soon to be former man, with a source telling the\u00a0Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency that his role was to \u201cmilitary intelligence on operations, not on premeditation\u201d and that, moreover, they had said Russia had the means to invade Ukraine and \u201cwhat has happened proves [the DRM] right\u201d rather than incompetent, they have nevertheless paid the price for apparently failing to predict events as effectively as their American and British counterparts.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cFrance, Germany, and Italy should hang their heads in shame. Where are all the Remoaners now? What are you going to say about this? You still want to be part of the corrupt EU when their only concern is lining their pockets?\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ki4UAHJgqk\">https:\/\/t.co\/ki4UAHJgqk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1505118128367308800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 19, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe warning is for the entire [French intelligence] community. You have to be efficient and meet all the threats,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/31\/french-military-spy-chief-eric-vidaud-quits-ukraine-failings\">remarked<\/a>\u00a0Professor Alexandre Papaemmanuel of Paris\u2019s Institute of Political Studies (IEP).<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the invasion, a source at the French presidential palace had downplayed the prospects of an imminent attack, sneering that \u201cWe can see the same number of trucks, tanks, personnel [and] have observed the same movements but we cannot deduce from all this that an invasion is imminent,\u201d adding that Germany was also sceptical of \u201calarmist\u201d rhetoric from \u201cAnglo-Saxon\u201d governments.<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Jack Montgomery on Twitter:<\/span><\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackBMontgomery\"><span>@JackBM<\/span><\/a><\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackBMontgomery\"><span>ontgomery<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Breitbart London on Facebook:<\/span><\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BreitbartLondon\/\"><span>Breitbart London<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French military intelligence chief General Eric Vidaud is to lose his job over the failure to predict Vladimir Putin\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, in a rare example of Western high officials<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1416227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1416227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1416227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1416227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1416227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}