aujourd’hui<\/a> les d\u00e9clarations de Danzig sur cet aspect de la politique militaire.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00abThe requirements need to be more appropriately fashioned not only to the desire to buy the most modern equipment but also to the realities of cost, Danzig said. You then need to drive programs, I think, to conform to that cost decision. Danzig pointed specifically to two programs missile defense and the Army’s Future Combat Systems as two worthy efforts that need to have their costs monitored. At roughly $10 billion a year, missile defense is the most expensive program on the Pentagon’s books. The Obama campaign has a strong view that national missile defense is a rewarding area that should be invested in, Danzig said. But he criticized former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for treating the program like a favored hobby horse, and not giving it careful scrutiny. Meanwhile, Danzig said the $160 billion FCS program, which has raised cost concerns on Capitol Hill, needs to be looked at closely.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbAddressing the overall Pentagon budget, Danzig said he doesn’t see defense spending declining in the first years of an Obama administration. Obama, he added, would balance investments across a variety of programs and capabilities to better position the military to meet a wide range of threats. It’s easier to preach than practice. The achievement of it is challenging, Danzig said. I don’t mean to slight that. But I don’t think you can overinvest in one dimension versus another and say this is what we need. Danzig again criticized Rumsfeld, who came to the Pentagon in early 2001 with a blueprint to transform the military that barely focused on the types of counterinsurgency missions central to current operations. One of his problems was he overinvested in a theory and I just don’t think we can afford to do that with the military, Danzig said.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tIl est manifeste qu’il faut lier les deux domaines pour comprendre l’essentiel de l’approche de l’\u00e9quipe de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 nationale d’Obama. Pour cette \u00e9quipe, la question de la crise interne du Pentagone, notamment la crise du syst\u00e8me d’acquisition, est le probl\u00e8me de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 nationale le plus urgent. L’homme le plus habilit\u00e9 \u00e0 traiter cette question est manifestement l’actuel secr\u00e9taire \u00e0 la d\u00e9fense Robert Gates. Toutes ces remarques s’encha\u00eenent logiquement et font effectivement de Gates un favori pour se succ\u00e9der \u00e0 lui-m\u00eame si Obama emporte l’\u00e9lection, sinon le d’ores et d\u00e9j\u00e0 quasi effectif secr\u00e9taire \u00e0 la d\u00e9fense du nouveau pr\u00e9sident.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tUne remarque de Danzig, surtout, est significative: Gates a \u00e9t\u00e9 un bon secr\u00e9taire \u00e0 la d\u00e9fense. Il serait encore un meilleur secr\u00e9taire \u00e0 la d\u00e9fense dans une administration Obama. Puis cette pr\u00e9cision : parce que nombre d’efforts qu’il fait sont en accord avec ce que nous envisageons de faire. Cela signifie sans gu\u00e8re de doutes qu’il y a d\u00e9j\u00e0 eu des contacts circonstanci\u00e9s entre l’\u00e9quipe Obama et Gates, qu’il y a eu le constat d’une identit\u00e9 de vue sur les efforts \u00e0 faire au Pentagone dans le sens de la r\u00e9forme int\u00e9rieure; il y a eu aussi un accord sur le fait que cette question de la r\u00e9forme int\u00e9rieure est la plus pressante aujourd’hui au Pentagone alors que Gates n’a pas tout le soutien politique dont il aurait besoin avec l’actuelle et moribonde direction de l’administration Bush, et ce soutien, il l’aurait avec Obama. L\u00e0-dessus, on comprend qu’il ne fait gu\u00e8re de doute non plus qu’en cas d’\u00e9lection d’Obama, c’est \u00e0 Gates qu’on proposera le poste de secr\u00e9taire \u00e0 la d\u00e9fense. Sauf accident, la r\u00e9ponse est d\u00e9j\u00e0 positive.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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