Le jointness<\/em>, la coop\u00e9ration, l’OTAN, la coordination avec les USA, les coalitions ad hoc<\/em> et tout ce toutim dont tous les \u00e9tats-majors r\u00eavent comme de papa No\u00ebl, donnent des r\u00e9sultats \u00e9pouvantables. Les meilleures<\/strong> arm\u00e9es du monde prennent le mod\u00e8le de la plus mauvaise<\/strong> arm\u00e9e du monde et s’y conforment. Elles s’am\u00e9ricanisent comme a fait Tsahal<\/em>. (Nous insistons sur ces qualificatifs au risque de faire d\u00e9faillir l’un ou l’autre expert. Ils d\u00e9crivent l’exacte r\u00e9alit\u00e9. Cela est d\u00e9montr\u00e9 quand l’on veut et comme l’on veut. La pr\u00e9tendue valeur de l’arm\u00e9e am\u00e9ricaniste est un artefact \u00e0 mi-chemin entre la communication et la d\u00e9monstration technologique pour assurer les b\u00e9n\u00e9fices des actionnaires des soci\u00e9t\u00e9s du Complexe.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tCas des Britanniques. A force de special relationships<\/em> fa\u00e7on-Blair, ils deviennent aussi mauvais que ces Am\u00e9ricains qu’ils ex\u00e8crent et m\u00e9prisent derri\u00e8re les sourires de fa\u00e7ade. Exemple du capitaine Leo Docherty, des Scots Guards, qui quitte l’arm\u00e9e britannique (selon The Times<\/em> du 10 septembre<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abThe former aide-de-camp to the commander of the British taskforce in southern Afghanistan has described the campaign in Helmand province as a textbook case of how to screw up a counter-insurgency.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bb Having a big old fight is pointless and just making things worse, said Captain Leo Docherty, of the Scots Guards, who became so disillusioned that he quit the army last month.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bb All those people whose homes have been destroyed and sons killed are going to turn against the British, he said. It’s a pretty clear equation if people are losing homes and poppy fields, they will go and fight. I certainly would.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bb We’ve been grotesquely clumsy we’ve said we’ll be different to the Americans who were bombing and strafing villages, then behaved exactly like them.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t()<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbDocherty traces the start of the problems to the British capture of Sangin on May 25, in which he took part. He says troops were sent to seize this notorious centre of Taliban and narcotics activity without night-vision goggles and with so few vehicles they had to borrow a pick-up truck.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbMore damningly, once they had established a base in the town, the mission failed to capitalise on their presence. Sangin has no paved roads, running water or electricity, but because of a lack of support his men were unable to carry out any development, throwing away any opportunity to win over townspeople.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bb The military is just one side of the triangle, he said. Where were the Department for International Development and the Foreign Office? The window was briefly open for our message to be spread, for the civilian population to be informed of our intent and realise that we weren’t there simply to destroy the poppy fields and their livelihoods. I felt at this stage that the Taliban were sitting back and observing us, deciding in their own time how to most effectively hit us.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbEventually the Taliban attacked on June 11, when Captain Jim Philippson became the first British soldier to be killed in Helmand. British troops have since been holed up in their compound with attacks coming at least once a day. Seven British soldiers have died in the Sangin area.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bb Now the ground has been lost and all we’re doing in places like Sangin is surviving, said Docherty. It’s completely barking mad.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bb We’re now scattered in a shallow meaningless way across northern towns where the only way for the troops to survive is to increase the level of violence so more people get killed. It’s pretty shocking and not something I want to be part of.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tSi nous parlons de peste \u00e0 propos de l’am\u00e9ricanisation, c’est parce que nous y sommes invit\u00e9s par l’un des papes (ou ex-papes) de la promotion de la chose. Il s’agit de Ralph Peters qui, en 1997, nous annon\u00e7ait dans un texte sacr\u00e9ment pr\u00e9monitoire<\/a> l’am\u00e9ricanisation du monde par sa d\u00e9structuration absolue. Il nommait cela, se r\u00e9f\u00e9rant \u00e0 l’attaque culturelle am\u00e9ricaniste, par la bassesse, la m\u00e9diocrit\u00e9, l’ab\u00eatissement, \u00aba plague of pleasure<\/em>\u00bb. Remplacez plaisir<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tpar destruction et vous avez le r\u00e9sultat de l’am\u00e9ricanisation : Tous n’en mouraient pas mais tous \u00e9taient touch\u00e9s. Cette fois, malheureusement, il s’agit de l’arm\u00e9e britannique.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tLes petits officiers frais \u00e9moulus de l’arm\u00e9e fran\u00e7aise feraient bien d’y r\u00e9fl\u00e9chir avant de se pr\u00e9cipiter \u00e0 l’OTAN comme vers le miroir aux alouettes (il y en a). Mais l’arm\u00e9e fran\u00e7aise, gr\u00e2ce au sens de la souverainet\u00e9 inn\u00e9 au caract\u00e8re fran\u00e7ais, est plus costaude que l’arm\u00e9e britannique \u00e0 cet \u00e9gard. Quant au fr\u00e8re Peters, il a mis de l’eau dans son vin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \tMis en ligne le 10 septembre 2006 \u00e0 11H34<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Le jointness, la coop\u00e9ration, l’OTAN, la coordination avec les USA, les coalitions ad hoc et tout ce toutim dont tous les \u00e9tats-majors r\u00eavent comme de papa No\u00ebl, donnent des r\u00e9sultats \u00e9pouvantables. Les meilleures arm\u00e9es du monde prennent le mod\u00e8le de la plus mauvaise arm\u00e9e du monde et s’y conforment. 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