{"id":67717,"date":"2006-07-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2006\/07\/04\/les-britanniques-dans-le-bourbier-afghan\/"},"modified":"2006-07-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-04T00:00:00","slug":"les-britanniques-dans-le-bourbier-afghan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2006\/07\/04\/les-britanniques-dans-le-bourbier-afghan\/","title":{"rendered":"Les Britanniques dans le bourbier afghan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Londres est pris en tenailles dans son engagement en Afghanistan, entre une opinion de plus en plus r\u00e9tive<\/a> \u00e0 tout ce qui peut ressembler \u00e0 des actions allant dans le sens d’une politique pro-am\u00e9ricaniste, et une situation en pleine d\u00e9t\u00e9rioration en Afghanistan. L’on parle bien de tenailles parce que l’engagement britannique en Afghanistan, par ailleurs soumis aux pires critiques d\u00e8s l’origine, est un engagement accompli pour satisfaire les exigences de Washington.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tLa situation des Britanniques en Afghanistan se d\u00e9t\u00e9riore de jour en jour, avec des pertes (5 tu\u00e9s en trois semaines) qui rendent dramatique et tr\u00e8s sensible cette d\u00e9t\u00e9rioration. Deux aspects de cette d\u00e9t\u00e9rioration doivent \u00eatre mis en \u00e9vidence :<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t• L’insuffisance des moyens militaires britanniques dans le pays. Alors, un renforcement, comme le r\u00e9clament les habituels conservateurs ? Bien s\u00fbr, mais avec quels moyens, et pour une guerre si impopulaire.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t• La mise en \u00e9vidence, chaque jour davantage, que le r\u00f4le, compl\u00e8tement en solo quoiqu’en contr\u00f4le de tout des Am\u00e9ricains, met les forces britanniques en position de vuln\u00e9rabilit\u00e9 grandissante.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tVoici quelques extraits d’une analyse de Martin Walker<\/a>, de UPI, sur cet aspect des choses en Afghanistan :<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00ab Patrick Mercer, defense spokesman for the opposition Conservative party and a former army officer, claims that the troops have been given a job that is far too big with resources that are far too small.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb When I was instructing at the staff college, if a student had presented me with this plan for Afghanistan, I would have failed him, and failed him comprehensively, Mercer told the BBC over the weekend.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb Mercer, who has close ties to senior officers, speaks for many in the army who believe the NATO operation to pacify Afghanistan’s Helmand province has been ill-conceived from the beginning. Charged with winning the hearts and minds of the local Afghans and rallying support for the pro-Western government in Kabul against the surviving Taliban, the NATO troops have also been ordered to curtail the booming opium trade the main source of local livelihood.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb But senior British officers are also claiming that the Helmand operation is suffering from the aggressive tactics of the U.S. troops in Afghanistan, in particular the need to support the current U.S.-led Operation Mountain Thrust.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb This deploys more than 10,000 Afghan and coalition soldiers in the largest military offensive since the Taliban regime fell in late 2001, and has first call on the available air cover. Eye-witness reports from embedded British journalists over the weekend reported massed ambushes of British convoys who were then unable to get air support because the aircraft and helicopters were needed elsewhere.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb There are 3,300 British troops currently assigned to Helmand province, close to the size of Belgium, but only 650 of them are combat soldiers. Of the 3,300, some 800 are combat engineers who are building the British base of Camp Bastion, and when they leave later this month the army is urging strongly that they be replaced by more combat units. But they will also need more air support.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb So far, only eight Apache gunships have been assigned to the British contingent, and Prime Minister Tony Blair has appealed to other NATO members to provide more helicopters.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tCe spectacle peu r\u00e9jouissant alimente \u00e9galement l’un des aspects de la crise de l’OTAN<\/a>, qui est l’\u00e9chec global de l’Organisation \u00e0 jouer un r\u00f4le acceptable en Afghanistan. L’OTAN n’a rien \u00e0 esp\u00e9rer tant que les Am\u00e9ricains tiendront toute l’infrastructure et le contr\u00f4le de la coalition tout en se r\u00e9servant le gros des moyens de soutien. Nous continuons \u00e0 chercher avec confiance quoiqu’avec une fatigue grandissante les raisons de la pr\u00e9sence en Afghanistan, dans les structures de l’OTAN contr\u00f4l\u00e9es de cette fa\u00e7on par les Am\u00e9ricains, des contingents europ\u00e9ens. C’est de la belle intelligence, tant politique qu’op\u00e9rationnelle.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\tMis en ligne le 4 juillet 2006 \u00e0 14H12<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Londres est pris en tenailles dans son engagement en Afghanistan, entre une opinion de plus en plus r\u00e9tive \u00e0 tout ce qui peut ressembler \u00e0 des actions allant dans le sens d’une politique pro-am\u00e9ricaniste, et une situation en pleine d\u00e9t\u00e9rioration en Afghanistan. L’on parle bien de tenailles parce que l’engagement britannique en Afghanistan, par ailleurs… <\/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":[3236,3580,3703,584],"class_list":["post-67717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-afghanistan","tag-bourbier","tag-britanniques","tag-otan"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67717","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=67717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}