Nous signalons un passage de l’article de Defense News du 24 octobre<\/a> qui nous a servi de support pour notre Faits & Commentaires du 25 octobre<\/a>. Cet article concernait notamment la question de l’autonomie industrielle et strat\u00e9gique de l’Europe pour ses \u00e9quipements militaires, face aux intrusions US (l\u00e9gislation ITAR) \u00e0 cause des composants am\u00e9ricains dans certains syst\u00e8mes europ\u00e9ens.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00ab And retired French Gen. Bernard Molard told a conference audience recently that Europe must develop its space capabilities independent of the United States for strategic reasons. Molard chairs the security and defense working group of Eurospace, a subsidiary of ASD, the lobby in Brussels that represents Europe’s aerospace and defense industries.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bb France didn’t follow other allies into the war in Iraq because we had our own satellite means to verify whether WMD [weapons of mass destruction] were actually there. We could see they weren’t there, and we didn’t go for it, he said.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tA notre connaissance, c’est la premi\u00e8re fois qu’il est affirm\u00e9 publiquement de fa\u00e7on aussi pr\u00e9cise que la raison plut\u00f4t l’une des raisons, \u00e0 notre sens, de l’abstention de la France dans la guerre contre l’Irak repose sur le constat technique de l’absence d’ADM en Irak gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 la reconnaissance satellite. Nous parlons ici de la pr\u00e9cision du propos, \u00e9tant entendu par ailleurs que le doute sur l’existence des ADM de Saddam \u00e9tait largement r\u00e9pandu dans les milieux dirigeants fran\u00e7ais. (A notre connaissance, c’est la premi\u00e8re fois qu’il est affirm\u00e9 publiquement de fa\u00e7on aussi pr\u00e9cise : nous ne pr\u00e9tendons certainement pas \u00e0 la certitude dans ce cas et nous prendrions connaissance avec int\u00e9r\u00eat de toute pr\u00e9cision et contestation.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tBien entendu, cette affirmation est, dans le contexte de l’article, un puissant argument en faveur de l’ind\u00e9pendance compl\u00e8te (pas de composants US) des syst\u00e8mes d’arme europ\u00e9ens.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \tMis en ligne le 26 octobre 2005 \u00e0 10H05<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nous signalons un passage de l’article de Defense News du 24 octobre qui nous a servi de support pour notre Faits & Commentaires du 25 octobre. Cet article concernait notamment la question de l’autonomie industrielle et strat\u00e9gique de l’Europe pour ses \u00e9quipements militaires, face aux intrusions US (l\u00e9gislation ITAR) \u00e0 cause des composants am\u00e9ricains dans… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3860,4797,2687,4793,4798],"class_list":["post-66957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-adm","tag-export","tag-france","tag-itar","tag-satellite"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}