23 f\u00e9vrier<\/a>, un tableau plut\u00f4t flatteur du nouveau venu..<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00abUnlike most of his predecessors selected to be under secretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics, Carter has no professional ties to America’s arms makers or manufacturing industry, nor has he spent his career in government procurement. Instead, from his perch at Harvard’s Kennedy School, Carter has been criticizing the Pentagon for buying too many armaments it doesn’t need, decrying what he calls a lack of discipline and failure to take account of cost growth in weapons systems and defense services.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00abA trained scientist with a doctorate in theoretical physics and a degree in Medieval history, Carter’s advocates say the long-time Harvard professor and national security specialist is being chosen because his combination of technical expertise and knowledge of defense strategy will be needed to make what Gates calls \u00ab\u00a0difficult choices\u00a0\u00bb about which weapons programs to invest in and which ones to terminate.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbHe is not being brought in to help the defense industry thrive, said Loren Thompson, president of the Lexington Institute, an Arlington, Va., think tank. He is being brought in to decide what we need and what we can do without.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbAt a fiscal responsibility summit’ at the White House today, Senator John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee last year, highlighted serious cost overruns in the Pentagon budget as part of cutting the federal deficit, and said tough d\u00e9cisions on procurement need to be made as the country also pays for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. This is going to be one of our highest priorities, Obama replied.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tL’article ajoute que Carter est l’objet de diverses rumeurs, venues des milieux de l’industrie de d\u00e9fense, concernant des soi disant pratiques assez douteuses du personnage, lobbying<\/em>, corruption, etc. On comprend que cette \u00e9vocation puisse faire monter des vapeurs et le rouge aux joues des dirigeants de LM, brutalement inquiets pour la vertu de la nation et le sort de l’argent du contribuable. Bref, la campagne de rumeurs et de d\u00e9nigrement nous dit au moins qu’on aura Carter \u00e0 l’il et qu’on l’accueillera au Pentagone avec un tapis de peaux de banane.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tSans aucun doute, l’intention est l\u00e0. Carter est de formation scientifique, effectivement plut\u00f4t hors des cercles de la corruption industrielle du CMI; il est aussi notablement exp\u00e9riment\u00e9 apr\u00e8s ses ann\u00e9es au Pentagone de Clinton, voire avec l’int\u00e9r\u00eat, ou l’avantage c’est selon, d’une formation qui tendrait plut\u00f4t vers l’humanisme que vers le technologisme (licenci\u00e9 en Histoire m\u00e9di\u00e9vale, apr\u00e8s tout, voil\u00e0 un aspect inhabituel). Mais surtout, il y a ce fait fondamental : Carter est d’ores et d\u00e9j\u00e0 catalogu\u00e9, identifi\u00e9, quasiment d\u00e9nonc\u00e9 par l’industrie, le CMI, les consultants et tous les amis, comme l’ennemi \u00e0 abattre. C’en est ainsi parce que l’atmosph\u00e8re, \u00e0 Washington et sur le Potomac, est surchauff\u00e9e, notamment pour tout ce qui concerne les rumeurs et hypoth\u00e8ses de r\u00e9forme et de chambardement au Pentagone. Il y a, avant les faits eux-m\u00eames, l’appr\u00e9hension de ces faits qui constitue en soi un \u00e9v\u00e9nement propre. Quoi qu’il en soit de sa carri\u00e8re dans les mois et ann\u00e9es qui viennent, de sa r\u00e9ussite dans son entreprise suppos\u00e9e, Carter est per\u00e7u comme le symbole d’une volont\u00e9 de r\u00e9forme du Pentagone, et cela est presque, au niveau de la perception, comme si la bataille de la r\u00e9forme, avec tous ses remous et ses pol\u00e9miques, avait d\u00e9j\u00e0 commenc\u00e9. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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\tMis en ligne le 25 f\u00e9vrier 2009 \u00e0 06H22<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Au Pentagone, le poste de n\u00b03, Under Secretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics, est d’une r\u00e9elle importance. On appelle la personne qui l’occupe le tsar des acquisitions (ou la tsarine?) parce qu’elle a l’autorit\u00e9 directe sur des sommes consid\u00e9rables (d’une fa\u00e7on g\u00e9n\u00e9rale, autour de $300 milliards par an) pour l’acquisition des syst\u00e8mes d’arme… <\/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":[8150,3643,3194,4087,3320,7670],"class_list":["post-70563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-ashton","tag-carter","tag-pentagone","tag-perry","tag-reforme","tag-young"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70563","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=70563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}