Jean-Pierre Steinhofer

Who is Jean-Pierre Steinhofer?

Jean-Pierre Steinhofer is a French Army officer graduated in the École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr.

Jean-Pierre Steinhofer is one of the young military writers whose articles were often read in the French Army at the end of the last century. For example, in the beginning of the 1990s, his article "Beur ou ordinaire" obliged the French Ministry of Defense to cancel a project of affirmative action in favour of Arabian-ethnic French soldiers.

As the "chef de cabinet" of the French ambassador Head of ECMM in the Balkans in 1995, he wrote several articles denouncing the French military authorities pro-Serb attitude, and defended the Bosnian Croats and the Bosniaks.

Publications:

- « Au-delà des plumes »: cartoon on the life in Saint-Cyr. This cartoon described in a humoristic way the life in the prestigious and famous high military school. The first episodes were published in 1989 in the “Revue Saint-Cyr”. It seems that the publication was stopped under the pressure of the French military authorities who didn’t appreciate the sense of humour of the cartoon.