La direction du Pentagone surprend de plus en plus les commentateurs parce qu’elle prend des initiatives \u00e0 long terme, qui sont bien s\u00fbr des engagements th\u00e9oriques (il ne peut en \u00eatre autrement), mais alors qu’elle n’est th\u00e9oriquement en place que pour six mois encore. Deux \u00e9v\u00e9nements, dont nous avons parl\u00e9 par ailleurs, refl\u00e8tent cette attitude.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t Parlant de la guerre contre la Terreur le 3 ao\u00fbt<\/a>, nous citions le document sur la National Defense Strategy<\/em> 2008, diffus\u00e9e par le Pentagone \u00e0 partir du 1er ao\u00fbt<\/a> et pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 dans la presse US (Washington Post<\/em>) le 31 juillet<\/a>. Dans ce m\u00eame article, le journaliste Josh White remarquait : <\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abIt is unusual for a defense secretary to offer a comprehensive military strategy so late in an administration’s tenure, and in a foreword to the document Gates acknowledges that a new president will soon reassess threats and priorities. Gates wrote that he perceives this document as a a blueprint to success for a future administration.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbMichele Flournoy, president of the Center for a New American Security, said she was surprised to see Gates issuing such a strategy so close to a presidential election, calling it a strategy destined to be overtaken by \u00e9vents because one of the new administration’s first tasks will be to write such a defense plan. She said the document appropriately emphasizes irregular warfare focused on terrorists and rogue regimes bent on using insurgency or weapons of mass destruction but might go too far.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t Dans le F&C<\/em> de ce jour<\/a>, nous citons la nouvelle, dans le Star Telegram<\/em>, de Fort Worth, du 3 ao\u00fbt<\/a>, selon laquelle le g\u00e9n\u00e9ral Schwartz, nouveau chef d’\u00e9tat-major de l’USAF, a annonc\u00e9 qu’il disposerait de budgets suppl\u00e9mentaires pour acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer la production du JSF\/F-35. Le journal publiait dans le cours de l’article ce commentaire sur les conditions impliqu\u00e9es par cette annonce:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abThe general’s comments surprised some in Washington and reportedly even the Air Force, since a new president and administration will take office in January with their own budget priorities. Most defense experts have said they don’t expect a big increase in weapons.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbBut one defense analyst said the Bush administration has told the Air Force and Navy to develop six-year spending plans assuming that significantly more money will be available.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n