Jean-Pierre Steinhofer

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

He is one of the young military writers whose articles are often readen in the French Army. For example, in the beginning of the 1990's, 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 (Bosnian Muslims).

Publications: - "Beur ou ordinaire" (in "Armées d'Aujourd'hui"): article in French denouncing affirmative action in favor of JFOM (young French with Arabian origin), as issued by the French Ministry of Defense (directive 23 may 1990). "The 23 May 1990 is the day of the official creation of two categories of draftees; that's a very serious danger".

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