From 2012 to 2022, Jean-Yves Le Drian was successively Minister of Defense and Minister of Foreign Affairs. During these ten years, he was both a key player and a witness to the brutalization of the world. Today, a year after retiring from political life, Jean-Yves Le Drian recounts the wars and crises of a decade during which so many events turned the world upside down. Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Mali, Europe, terrorism and Ukraine: the former minister lived through and managed these conflicts alongside François Hollande and Emmanuel Macron.