4 juin<\/a> dans le sens d\u00e9sormais classique des chefs de la marine US.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tCosgriff s’attache surtout \u00e0 l’hypoth\u00e8se d’un accord naval entre les USA (l’U.S. Navy) et l’Iran pour la pr\u00e9vention d’incidents en mer, dont les implications pourraient conduire, en raison de la tension de la situation, \u00e0 des encha\u00eenements d’affrontements incontr\u00f4lables. Cette id\u00e9e d’un accord de pr\u00e9vention est d\u00e9fendue depuis l’\u00e9t\u00e9 2007 par la Navy et a \u00e9t\u00e9 jusqu’ici repouss\u00e9e par l’administration GW. Le fait que Cosgriff y revienne montre que la nomination de Petraeus \u00e0 la place de Fallon n’a pas fondamentalement modifi\u00e9 la situation d’autonomie des forces les unes par rapport aux autres, et les divergences de politique qui accompagnent cette situation. Il est manifeste que Cosgriff rend compte beaucoup plus au chef des op\u00e9rations navales et \u00e0 l’amiral Mullen qu’\u00e0 Petraeus, pourtant son sup\u00e9rieur direct sur le th\u00e9\u00e2tre d’op\u00e9ration. (D’autre part, Petraeus n’est pas encore entr\u00e9 en fonction comme commandant de Central Command.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t\u00abSitting in a Pentagon office last week during a visit back to Washington from his Bahrain headquarters, Adm Cosgriff explained how the 1972 Prevention of Incidents On and Over the High Seas agreement between the US and USSR helped prevent incidents at sea from escalating into crises.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbAdm Cosgriff, who has also served as director of the White House situation room, said the negotiations over the agreement created long-lasting confidence-building measures. To stress the point, he added that his last encounter with a Soviet ship off the coast of Oman about twenty years ago was pretty routine.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe key takeaway is it created an opportunity for the two navies to talk, said Adm Cosgriff. And then that led to other things, visits and those sorts of things.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tLe FT signale \u00e9galement que trois anciens commandants de CentCom ont parl\u00e9 publiquement r\u00e9cemment en faveur d’un tel accord : Abizaid, Zinni et Fallon justement, dont il semble que ce soit la premi\u00e8re intervention publique depuis sa d\u00e9mission. (\u00abRetired admiral William Fallon, who succeeded Gen Abizaid at Centcom until his retirement earlier this year, on Tuesday told CNN that the US needed to remain firm with Iran while at the same time demonstrating a willingness and openness to engage in dialogue.<\/em>\u00bb)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tCosgriff a expliqu\u00e9 gravement au FT qu’il ne croyait pas \u00e0 une attaque de l’Iran par les USA.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t\u00abAdm Cosgriff <\/em> [] dismisses the periodic reports that the US will attack Iran this year as an urban legend. I know on my side of the Gulf people have this unsettled feeling that there is going to be something like that, says Adm Cosgriff.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbSo every little thing now fits into this conspiracy. Like there is two carriers, prelude to war’. So you say, just watch, watch what happens, literally two ships passing in the night in the Gulf. Case closed.’ But people are inclined to think something.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 6 juin 2008 \u00e0 10H13<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
L’U.S. Navy, soutenue discr\u00e8tement par Robert Gates et le pr\u00e9sident du JCS, l’amiral Mullen, continue son action anti-attaque de l’Iran malgr\u00e9 le d\u00e9part de Fallon. Le vice-amiral Kevin Cosgriff, commandant la V\u00e8me Flotte (Oc\u00e9an Indien, Golfe) a r\u00e9pondu \u00e0 une interview du Financial Times du 4 juin dans le sens d\u00e9sormais classique des chefs de… <\/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":[5267,7617,6296,2851,2773,2852],"class_list":["post-69950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-accord","tag-cosgriff","tag-fallon","tag-financial","tag-iran","tag-times"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69950","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=69950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}