The problem is not so much who is right in this conflict, but how our leaders make their decisions. Jacques Baud, intelligence and security consultant and former NATO military analystīy Jacques Baud / French Intelligence Research Center PART ONE: ON THE ROAD TO WARįor years, from Mali to Afghanistan, I worked for peace and risked my life for it. It is therefore not a question of justifying the war, but of understanding what led us to it. I note that the “experts” who take turns on the television sets analyze the situation based on dubious information, most often hypotheses turned into facts, and therefore we no longer manage to understand what is happening. That’s how you create panic.