ABSTRACT
The Suez Crisis is an example of the significance of Karl von Clausewitz’s maxim: ‘War is a continuation of politics by other means.’
What can one say about the Suez Affair after thirty years? The media, getting their opinion in ahead of the judgment of history, is convinced that this military victory turned into a political fiasco. Although everything seems to have already been said, I would like to try to reply to the question on everyone’s lips: why did the Suez Affair turn out as it did? In doing so, I should also like to draw the main lesson in a dispassionate fashion.
