Le Defense Business Board est cet organisme, mis en place par Rumsfeld pour l’aider dans sa mission (\u00e9chec complet de Rumsfeld) de transformer le Pentagone, qui a transmis au secr\u00e9taire \u00e0 la d\u00e9fense Gates, le 23 octobre, un rapport extr\u00eamement alarmiste sur l’\u00e9tat du Pentagone. Nous en faisions \u00e9tat le 25 octobre<\/a>, en observant que c’\u00e9tait la premi\u00e8re fois qu’une allusion directe \u00e9tait faite \u00e0 la possibilit\u00e9 que le Pentagone lui-m\u00eame soit structurellement menac\u00e9.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tSur cet arri\u00e8re-plan, il est int\u00e9ressant d’aller sur le site<\/a> du DBB, site officiel, pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 d’une fa\u00e7on aust\u00e8re. Il faut alors cliquer sur l’extension<\/a> Mission<\/em> pour apprendre ceci:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abSecretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld established the Defense Business Board in 2001 as a complement to broader efforts at transformation in the Department of Defense. The Board consists of approximately twenty private sector executives who have amassed a vast range of experiences in business management. The Board shall provide the Secretary of Defense, through the Deputy Secretary of Defense, independent advice and recommendations on effective strategies for the implementation of best business practices of interest to the Department of Defense. The ultimate objective of this advice is to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of organizational support to the nation’s warfighters.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbClick here to view the complete text of Secretary Rumsfeld’s September 2001 speech on transformation.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tLe Click here<\/em> donne acc\u00e8s au texte du discours de Rumsfeld du 10 septembre 2001<\/a>, texte que nous avions largement comment\u00e9<\/a> comme un des discours les plus impressionnants et les plus courageux qu’il nous ait \u00e9t\u00e9 donn\u00e9 de lire sur le danger que la bureaucratie fait courir \u00e0 la stabilit\u00e9 des USA. Ces paroles sont encore plus impressionnantes, voire \u00e9nigmatiques, lorsqu’on songe qu’elles sont dites la veille du jour o\u00f9 l’attaque 9\/11 va faire na\u00eetre l’Ennemi supr\u00eame des USA, non la bureaucratie comme le constatait Rumsfeld mais le terrorisme. (La bureaucratie existe toujours, en pire; quant au terrorisme…)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abThe topic today is an adversary that poses a threat, a serious threat, to the security of the United States of America. This adversary is one of the world’s last bastions of central planning. It governs by dictating five-year plans. From a single capital, it attempts to impose its demands across time zones, continents, oceans and beyond. With brutal consistency, it stifles free thought and crushes new ideas. It disrupts the defense of the United States and places the lives of men and women in uniform at risk.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbPerhaps this adversary sounds like the former Soviet Union, but that enemy is gone: our foes are more subtle and implacable today. You may think I’m describing one of the last decrepit dictators of the world. But their day, too, is almost past, and they cannot match the strength and size of this adversary.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbThe adversary’s closer to home. It’s the Pentagon bureaucracy. Not the people, but the processes. Not the civilians, but the systems. Not the men and women in uniform, but the uniformity of thought and action that we too often impose on them.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbIn this building, despite this era of scarce resources taxed by mounting threats, money disappears into duplicative duties and bloated bureaucracynot because of greed, but gridlock. Innovation is stiflednot by ill intent but by institutional inertia.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tLe discours du 9\/10 est le seul lien que le DBB donne \u00e0 ceux qui consultent l’\u00e9nonc\u00e9 de sa mission. La bri\u00e8vet\u00e9 du propos et la solitude de cette r\u00e9f\u00e9rence d’une importance consid\u00e9rable montrent la pr\u00e9occupation centrale du DBB, la r\u00e9alit\u00e9 d’une mission qui consiste \u00e0 tenter effectivement d’emp\u00eacher un collapsus<\/em> du Pentagone. L’avertissement dans le rapport du 23 octobre est d’autant plus \u00e0 prendre en consid\u00e9ration. Il n’est pas fait \u00e0 la l\u00e9g\u00e8re et il est fait en connaissance de cause.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tLe rapport du DBB conduit Defense News<\/em>, qui en a r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9 les passages essentiels, \u00e0 conclure dans son \u00e9ditorial du 3 novembre 2008, qui en est un commentaire:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abThe next defense secretary must make acquisition reform a top priority. If he doesn’t, the Pentagon will find itself unable to afford the new weapons it will need to modernize its aging forces.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tParall\u00e8lement, c’est-\u00e0-dire dans le m\u00eame num\u00e9ro<\/a> de Defense News<\/em> (article accessible sur le site du CDI le 4 novembre<\/a>), le r\u00e9formiste Winslow Wheeler, du Center for Defense Information, observe que la crise du Pentagone est jusqu’ici compl\u00e8tement ignor\u00e9e des nouveaux responsables. Il s’agit pourtant, laisse-t-il entendre, de la plus grave de toutes les crises pour les USA (Par son caract\u00e8re structurel et conjoncturel, par sa position \u00e0 la jonction des crises internes et externes de l’am\u00e9ricanisme, ce jugement nous semble absolument fond\u00e9.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abWith the profound problems the new U.S. president will face next year in the economy, health care, energy, Social Security, gridlock in Washington, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, some might be tempted to take solace that our defenses, while costly, are sound.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbSorry, Mr. President elect-to be; that’s not the case. You have a real mess on your hands in the Pentagon. You have addressed the other crises in your election campaign, but you have completely ignored the meltdown in the Pentagon.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbWhat is lacking is a president, or a candidate for that office, with the strength of character to acknowledge the depth of our problems, to embrace principles such as those stated here, and to withstand the typhoon of acrimony that will ensue from those who seek to keep us fat and fading<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tIl faut noter effectivement que Wheeler emploie \u00e0 plusieurs reprise, notamment dans son titre (\u00abThe Other Meltdown<\/em>\u00bb), le mot meltdown<\/em> qui fut employ\u00e9 pour d\u00e9signer la crise financi\u00e8re du 15 septembre Le coming crash<\/em> du Pentagone, certes, un th\u00e8me pas tr\u00e8s sexy<\/em> pour un discours d’investiture \u00e0 la pr\u00e9sidence.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \tMis en ligne le 6 novembre 2008 \u00e0 14H27<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Le Defense Business Board est cet organisme, mis en place par Rumsfeld pour l’aider dans sa mission (\u00e9chec complet de Rumsfeld) de transformer le Pentagone, qui a transmis au secr\u00e9taire \u00e0 la d\u00e9fense Gates, le 23 octobre, un rapport extr\u00eamement alarmiste sur l’\u00e9tat du Pentagone. 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