One of the great intellectual successes of the American military, the Marine Corps’ development of maneuver warfare doctrine from the 1970s through the early 1990s, offers an interesting contrast. The process was almost all informal. The key people were mostly junior officers. Meetings were after-hours, in someone’s living room over beer and pizza. Many outsiders were involved, but none of them were paid. In the end, most of the new manuals were written by a Marine captain, who took them directly to the Commandant for approval. Tellingly, since that time the Marine Corps has formalized its doctrine development process, and the quality of its manuals has declined.<\/em> »<\/p>\n<\/p>\nLa r\u00e9forme informelle a finalement d\u00e9g\u00e9n\u00e9r\u00e9 parce qu’elle est devenue formelle, a \u00e9t\u00e9 kidnapp\u00e9e par la bureaucratie, puis est entr\u00e9e dans le pipe-line<\/em> de la programmation coûteuse du Pentagone, avec les gros contrats \u00e0 la clef. La conclusion est l’\u00e9vidence du bon sens : l’argent tue l’efficacit\u00e9 militaire. Lind \u00e0 nouveau, \u00e0 m\u00e9diter :<\/p>\n<\/p>\n« Of course, contractors hate informal processes, because they have no role in them. There is no money to be had. In contrast, the current formal process gives them what they seek most, opportunities to kiss the backsides of bigwigs with bucks to obtain still more contracts.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n» As I told one senior Marine Corps general last fall, the present system is terminally constipated by too many people and too much money. The money draws contractors the way an outhouse draws other kinds of flies. If the U.S. military wants to start thinking again, it needs to can the senior officer contractors, outlaw PowerPoint and give younger officers time and encouragement to meet in informal seminars, write and publish.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n» Scharnhorst’s Militaerische Gesellschaft, from the time of Napoleon, remains the right model. The problem is that it doesn’t cost very much.<\/em> »<\/p>\n<\/p>\nMis en ligne le 14 avril 2006 \u00e0 11H58<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Le vrai probl\u00e8me des militaires aujourd’hui, c’est l’argent, — parce qu’il y en a trop L’Occident experte en choses militaires ne cesse de se p\u00e2mer devant l’immensit\u00e9 himalayenne du budget du Pentagone. Pour l’Europe martiale des bureaucrates des diff\u00e9rents minist\u00e8res de la d\u00e9fense, pour les experts qui tournent autour, la montagne de $milliards du Pentagone… <\/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":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5288,1012,3572,3194,3320,5287],"class_list":["post-67453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-dargent","tag-lind","tag-marine","tag-pentagone","tag-reforme","tag-trop"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67453","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=67453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}