{"id":65473,"date":"2003-02-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-02-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2003\/02\/14\/bye-bye-blackbird\/"},"modified":"2003-02-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-02-14T00:00:00","slug":"bye-bye-blackbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2003\/02\/14\/bye-bye-blackbird\/","title":{"rendered":"Bye bye, Blackbird<\/em><\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bye bye, Blackbird<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

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\t14 f\u00e9vrier 2003 Le projet de retrait des forces am\u00e9ricaines des engagements ext\u00e9rieurs importants datant de la Guerre froide, se pr\u00e9cise, avec un t\u00e9moignage de Rumsfeld, le secr\u00e9taire \u00e0 la d\u00e9fense, sur le sujet, le 13 f\u00e9vrier. Il s’agit principalement de deux zones :<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t• L’Europe, avec un contingent d\u00e9ploy\u00e9 de 76.000 hommes (chiffre donn\u00e9 par Rumsfeld hier matin, assez \u00e9tonnant, qui suppose que des retraits subreptices ont d\u00e9j\u00e0 eu lieu).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t• La Cor\u00e9e du Sud, avec un contingent d\u00e9ploy\u00e9 de 37.000 hommes.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tOn a commenc\u00e9 \u00e0 parler de ce retrait, mi-officiellement, au s\u00e9minaire de la Werkunde<\/em>, le week-end dernier, en toile de fond des affrontements entre Rumsfeld et quelques Europ\u00e9ens. L’attitude US est tr\u00e8s ambigu\u00eb : les retraits sont pr\u00e9sent\u00e9s comme des mesures techniques, sans rapport avec telle ou telle querelle (celle des USA avec les Allemands). Pourtant, certaines parmi les premi\u00e8res appr\u00e9ciations \u00e9voquaient la possibilit\u00e9 de retraits en repr\u00e9sailles directes du comportement allemand (anti-guerre). Le 10 f\u00e9vrier, le Scotsman \u00e9crivait<\/a> :<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\t\u00ab The United States, infuriated by the German government’s latest efforts to stall any war, is talking privately of removing its bases from German soil to a more \u00a0\u00bbfriendly\u00a0\u00bb country, such as Poland.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb With over 100,000 men stationed at 95 sites, including the headquarters of the US military’s European forces, such a move would represent a staggering economic as well as diplomatic blow to Berlin.<\/em> \u00bb <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\tD’autre part, depuis la mi-janvier, des indications directes parlent de mouvements importants sur les routes allemandes et belges de forces US vers des embarquements portuaires. Il s’agit du IX Corps de l’U.S. Army, sans doute red\u00e9ploy\u00e9 dans le Golfe ; mais la forme des d\u00e9placements, l’\u00e9vacuation des d\u00e9p\u00f4ts de munitions et de logistique, font croire de fa\u00e7on unanime que ces forces partent pour ne plus revenir.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tDu c\u00f4t\u00e9 sud-cor\u00e9en, l’id\u00e9e d’un retrait est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment envisag\u00e9e depuis pr\u00e8s de deux mois, et l\u00e0 aussi pour des raisons politiques<\/a> autant que strat\u00e9giques. La r\u00e9alit\u00e9 est que l’argument technique ne date pas d’hier, comme il est dit ici et l\u00e0 de fa\u00e7on r\u00e9v\u00e9latrice ; il date de la fin de la Guerre froide. L’argument politique, lui, est tout r\u00e9cent : la prise de distance avec la Cor\u00e9e du Sud, la brouille avec l’Allemagne. A cause de cette chronologie, on avancera que l’argument politique est d\u00e9terminant, contredisant la version officielle.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tQuoiqu’on en veuille et dise, ce \u00e0 quoi l’on assiste est l’esquisse et la pr\u00e9paration d’un vaste mouvement de retrait de l’Am\u00e9rique. Le remplacement des forces d\u00e9ploy\u00e9es \u00e0 demeure par des contingents \u00e0 stationnement \u00e9pisodique est techniquement acceptable et politiquement significatif. Il sera plus facile \u00e0 tel ou tel pays-h\u00f4te de signifier un jour aux USA que la pr\u00e9sence de leurs forces est ind\u00e9sirable. Jim Lobe, qui \u00e9crivait le mois dernier \u00e0 propos d’un retour \u00e0 l’isolationnisme dans le cas sud-cor\u00e9en<\/a>, a sans doute raison pour l’ensemble du mouvement.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tCi-dessous, un texte de Defense News<\/a>, par William Matthewsw, pr\u00e9sente le t\u00e9moignage de Rumsfeld sur cette question, au Congr\u00e8s le 13 f\u00e9vrier 2003.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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DoD Considers Cutting Number of Troops in Europe, S. Korea<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n

\tThe U.S. Defense Department is pondering reductions to the large, long-standing deployments of troops to Europe and South Korea, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told the Senate Armed Services Committee Feb. 13.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tRepublicans on the committee applauded the news, saying large overseas deployments are costly and no longer consistent with the threats the United States faces.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tAt present, there are about 247,000 U.S. troops stationed in 130 foreign countries. Rumsfeld said studies are now under way on whether to reduce the number of troops stationed in Germany and South Korea. There are 71,000 U.S. troops in Germany and 37,000 in South Korea.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tRumsfeld said the Defense Department is considering moving some of those based in Germany to Italy, but has encountered objections from the Austrian government, which does not want U.S. forces moving through Austria by rail. Troops and equipment might have to be moved to Italy by sea or sent by rail through other countries, he said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tIt is quite clear to me that the deployments to South Korea should be reviewed, Rumsfeld said in response to a question from Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine. South Korean officials want that too, he said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tRumsfeld said he would like to move some U.S. troops away from the demilitarized zone that separates South Korea from North Korea. Instead, U.S. troops might be concentrated in an air hub and a sea hub from which they could deploy quickly. And some troops could come home, he said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tMore formal discussions with the South Korean government about U.S. troop deployments are expected to begin soon, Rumsfeld said. A new president, Roh Moo-hyun, takes office in Seoul Feb. 25.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tSen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., chairman of the Senate Armed Services airland subcommittee, said he and 13 other Republicans senators sent Rumsfeld a letter stating it is past time to evaluate our base structure and forces forward deployed in Europe.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tSessions said that changes in the threat and threat directions since the end of the Cold War in 1989 raise questions about the need to keep so many U.S. troops permanently in Europe.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tTalk of reducing the number of troops stationed overseas comes as Germany voices strong opposition to U.S. policies that may lead to war against Iraq, and anti-American sentiment rises in South Korea.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tNonetheless, Rumsfeld said the United States must be sensitive to the economic impact that could come from closing overseas bases. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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