23 janvier<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00abSimply put, the effectiveness of NATO forces in Afghanistan is limited by the commander’s freedom of action, Dell Dailey, the State Department’s coordinator for counterterrorism, said yesterday. It has got nothing to do with capabilities, Dailey, a retired Army lieutenant general with special operations experience, told the Defense Writers Group on Jan. 22. It has got everything to do with the national caveats. NATO’s International Security Assistance Force, commanded by US Army Gen. Dan McNeill, is supporting Afghan President Hamid Karzai in waging a counterinsurgency there against Taliban elements and al Qaeda extremists. NATO’s forces are darn good, Dailey said. They have got some good special operations forces. They have got some fantastic air. They have got darn good helicopters and good helicopter support. However, he added, You go to Dan McNeill and Dan McNeill will say, I need more freedom to use the forces outside of the existing national constraints.’ US Defense Secretary Robert Gates last week ruffled the feathers of Canadian and European allies when he said NATO forces are not adequately trained for counterinsurgency operations. After a storm of criticism, Gates clarified his comments, saying he was referring to the alliance as a whole and not to individual members of ISAF, some of which have considerable expertise in this area.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tCe que veulent les Am\u00e9ricains, c’est une libert\u00e9 et un contr\u00f4le complet de l’action a\u00e9rienne en Afghanistan, sans aucune restriction des forces au sol ou des gouvernements nationaux contr\u00f4lant ces forces. Rien de nouveau, c’est une exigence standard des USA, comme lors de l’offensive contre le Kosovo en 1999, o\u00f9 le SACEUR Wesley Clark ne cessa de r\u00e9clamer une absence de toute restriction sur l’emploi des forces a\u00e9riennes. Il est tr\u00e8s probable que les exigences US de nouvelles troupes non-US de l’OTAN est surtout une tactique de n\u00e9gociation avec leurs alli\u00e9s: abandonner cette exigence contre le contr\u00f4le complet de l’activit\u00e9 a\u00e9rienne. Il est probable que l’on parlera de cette formule, \u00e0 l’insistance des USA, au sommet de Bucarest de l’OTAN en avril.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tPlus que jamais, le Pentagone croit \u00e0 l’efficacit\u00e9 totale de l’intervention a\u00e9rienne dans la lutte contre le terrorisme, confort\u00e9 en cela par les enseignements s\u00e9lectifs et biais\u00e9s tir\u00e9s des derniers d\u00e9veloppements en Irak. On peut chercher \u00e0 imaginer ce qu’une telle intervention donnerait si les forces a\u00e9riennes US \u00e9taient lib\u00e9r\u00e9es de toute entrave en Afghanistan, du point de vue des dommages collat\u00e9raux et \u00e9ventuellement des pertes fratricides (pertes accidentelles dues de troupes amies dues \u00e0 des tirs sur des forces amies), et aussi du point de vue de l’efficacit\u00e9 \u00e0 terme sur le terrain. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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\tMis en ligne le 26 janvier 2008 \u00e0 11H55<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pour comprendre la situation des USA vis-\u00e0-vis de l’Afghanistan et vis-\u00e0-vis de leurs alli\u00e9s (l’OTAN), il faut d’abord bien avoir \u00e0 l’esprit deux points : Les Am\u00e9ricains sont persuad\u00e9s d’avoir compl\u00e8tement retourn\u00e9s la situation en Irak. Certains Europ\u00e9ens peuvent le croire eux aussi, cela leur occupe l’esprit. Les m\u00eames Am\u00e9ricains sont persuad\u00e9s d’avoir retourn\u00e9 cette… <\/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":[3020,3236,7396,3318,3984],"class_list":["post-69635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-aerienne","tag-afghanistan","tag-dailey","tag-force","tag-gates"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69635","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=69635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}