Yves Lacoste, a renowned French geographer who revealed that the United States deliberately bombed diked areas of North Vietnam during the Vietnam War, endangering millions of lives, and in doing so, pioneered a modern school of geopolitics in France, passed away on June 20 at his home in Bourg-la-Reine, near Paris. He was 96 years old. His demise was announced by Hérodote, the influential quarterly journal on geopolitics and geography that he founded in 1976. Four years earlier, Mr.
In Memoriam
Yves Lacoste
1929 – 2026 (aged 96)
French geographer and geopolitician (1929–2026)