{"id":77470,"date":"2017-09-06T17:33:06","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T17:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2017\/09\/06\/plutot-mad-chicken-que-mad-dog\/"},"modified":"2017-09-06T17:33:06","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T17:33:06","slug":"plutot-mad-chicken-que-mad-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2017\/09\/06\/plutot-mad-chicken-que-mad-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"Plut\u00f4t \u201c<em>Mad Chicken<\/em>\u201d que \u201c<em>Mad Dog<\/em>\u201d ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><h2 class=\"titleset_a.deepgreen\" style=\"color:#75714d; font-size:2em\">Plut\u00f4t \u00ab\u00a0<em>Mad Chicken<\/em>\u00a0\u00bb que \u00ab\u00a0<em>Mad Dog<\/em>\u00a0\u00bb ?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Ce <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/jderbyshire\/a-politically-incorrect-question-about-our-fender-bender-navy\/\">texte-l\u00e0<\/a> a failli nous \u00e9chapper et nous le r\u00e9cup\u00e9rons de justesse. Il \u00e9tudie <strong>des remarques et des hypoth\u00e8ses particuli\u00e8rement d\u00e9testables pour la bienpensance postmoderne<\/strong>, jugeant pour le cas des USA que l&rsquo;implantation des divers LGTBQ dans les forces arm\u00e9es ainsi que la \u00ab\u00a0communautarisation\u00a0\u00bb jusqu&rsquo;au recrutement de migrants ill\u00e9gaux aux USA ont rencontr\u00e9 un succ\u00e8s quantitatif consid\u00e9rable et cr\u00e9\u00e9, au niveau qualitatif, un climat d\u00e9l\u00e9t\u00e8re, un grand d\u00e9sordre, des doutes profonds sur le professionnalisme des forces et des interrogations sur le patriotisme et la coh\u00e9sion de ces forces. On reconna&icirc;t bien l\u00e0 <strong>l&rsquo;habituel antagonisme entre le quantitatif et le qualitatif, qui d\u00e9finit compl\u00e8tement la crise de la modernit\u00e9 et fixe les conditions de la d\u00e9cadence, sinon de l&rsquo;effondrem<\/strong>ent ; et l&rsquo;on se gardera d&#8217;employer dans le cas que nous d\u00e9crivons le terme d'\u00a0\u00bbint\u00e9gration\u00a0\u00bb au profit de celui d'\u00a0\u00bbimplantation\u00a0\u00bb, car il nous para&icirc;t fort imprudent d&rsquo;avancer que l&rsquo;irruption de ces \u00ab\u00a0diverses diversit\u00e9s\u00a0\u00bb au sein des forces ait abouti \u00e0 cette sorte d&rsquo;int\u00e9gration qualitative qui est le gage de la coh\u00e9sion et de la structuration collective.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>L&rsquo;auteur remarque en fin de texte qu&rsquo;il existe une infection de cette d\u00e9cadence jusqu&rsquo;aux plus hauts \u00e9chelons des forces, avec une attention forcen\u00e9e, voire une fascination des cadres militaires et des chefs pour le politiquement correct, &ndash; bien plus, \u00e9videmment, que pour la victoire sur l&rsquo;adversaire dont ils ne semblent plus savoir la signification. Il y a ce paragraphe o&ugrave; l&rsquo;auteur avance l&rsquo;observation que, d\u00e9sormais, les g\u00e9n\u00e9raux et les amiraux US gagnent leurs \u00e9toiles <strong>gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 leur habilet\u00e9 tactique et leur <em>vista <\/em>strat\u00e9gique dans l&rsquo;implantation r\u00e9ussie des diverses lettres composant l&rsquo;acronyme LGTBQ et des diverses communaut\u00e9s<\/strong>, &ndash; et nullement dans les batailles o&ugrave; l&rsquo;on sait qu&rsquo;ils excellent depuis des d\u00e9cennies, et particuli\u00e8rement depuis 9\/11 o&ugrave; les occasions ne leur ont pas manqu\u00e9, d&rsquo;en repousser les bornes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomdispatch.com\/post\/176322\/tomgram%3A_engelhardt%2C_the_last_men_standing\/#more\">de la d\u00e9faite et de la d\u00e9route sans fin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><p>&laquo; <em>Apr\u00e8s trente ans de pourrissement culturels, nos g\u00e9n\u00e9raux et nos amiraux ne deviennent pas g\u00e9n\u00e9raux et amiraux en gagnant des guerres mais en<\/em> [incorportant dans les forces arm\u00e9es]<em> les nombres corrects d&rsquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vdare.com\/posts\/the-affirmative-action-army-meets-the-minority-occupation-government-and-that-means-waving-goodbye-to-syria\" title=\"http:\/\/www.vdare.com\/posts\/the-affirmative-action-army-meets-the-minority-occupation-government-and-that-means-waving-goodbye-to-syria\"><strong>Africains-Am\u00e9ricains <\/strong><\/a>et de <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vdare.com\/articles\/three-forgotten-facts-about-the-fort-hood-massacre\" title=\"http:\/\/www.vdare.com\/articles\/three-forgotten-facts-about-the-fort-hood-massacre\"><strong>musulmans<\/strong><\/a> et en <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vdare.com\/posts\/latest-diversity-crisis-the-coast-guard-academy\" title=\"http:\/\/www.vdare.com\/posts\/latest-diversity-crisis-the-coast-guard-academy\"><strong>ouvrant<\/strong><\/a> les portes des <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vdare.com\/radios\/radio-derb-hillary-to-badwhites-die-already-plus-privileged-black-lives-matter-at-west-point-etc\" title=\"http:\/\/www.vdare.com\/radios\/radio-derb-hillary-to-badwhites-die-already-plus-privileged-black-lives-matter-at-west-point-etc\"><strong>acad\u00e9mies militaires<\/strong><\/a> aux jeunes filles et aux homosexuels. Ils ne veulent pas se pr\u00e9occuper du bon \u00e9tat de leurs navires. Ils pr\u00e9f\u00e8rent se concentrer sur les grands enjeux strat\u00e9giques qui s&rsquo;imposent \u00e0 la nation : installer des salles de bain sp\u00e9ciales pour les <a href=\"http:\/\/weaponsman.com\/?p=34238\" title=\"http:\/\/weaponsman.com\/?p=34238\"><strong>transgenres<\/strong><\/a> servant dans les <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vdare.com\/posts\/radio-derb-transcript-for-april-24-up-girls-on-submarines-etc\" title=\"http:\/\/www.vdare.com\/posts\/radio-derb-transcript-for-april-24-up-girls-on-submarines-etc\"><strong>sous-marins<\/strong><\/a>, les <a href=\"http:\/\/weaponsman.com\/?p=27557\" title=\"http:\/\/weaponsman.com\/?p=27557\"><strong>chars<\/strong><\/a> et les avions de combat<\/em>. &raquo;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><p>L&rsquo;auteur s&rsquo;attache \u00e0 analyser certains aspects du recrutement et du personnel de l&rsquo;U.S. Navy, \u00e0 la lumi\u00e8re des <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dedefensa.org\/article\/les-antifa-vont-ils-eriger-une-statue-a-la-gloire-de-bannon\">quatre collisions<\/a> qui ont eu lieu en un an dans la zone de la Mer de Chine du Sud et du d\u00e9troit de Malacca, toutes ces collisions impliquant des navires de la VII\u00e8me Flotte qui est une des deux composantes (avec la II\u00e8me Flotte) de la Flotte du Pacifique de l&rsquo;US Navy. Il s&rsquo;agit <strong>d&rsquo;appr\u00e9cier les effets de l&rsquo;ouverture soci\u00e9tale et communautariste maximale des forces arm\u00e9es depuis la fin du XX\u00e8me si\u00e8cle, avec une acc\u00e9l\u00e9ration massive sous Obama<\/strong>, avec des ministres des trois armes favorisant cette \u00e9volution de toutes les fa\u00e7ons possibles. Il s&rsquo;agit donc aussi bien d&rsquo;une approche LGTBQ (le sujet que traite principalement l&rsquo;auteur, avec la pr\u00e9sence des marins du genre f\u00e9minin \u00e0 bord des navires de la flotte) que d&rsquo;une approche communautariste conduisant \u00e0 des situations dont on peut deviner qu&rsquo;elles ont des aspects bien p\u00e9nalisants pour la qualit\u00e9 des forces arm\u00e9es US.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>(L&rsquo;engagement dans les forces arm\u00e9es permet notamment \u00e0 des immigr\u00e9s en situation ind\u00e9cise, sinon ill\u00e9gale [l&rsquo;administration Obama y veillait], d&rsquo;acqu\u00e9rir la nationalit\u00e9 am\u00e9ricaine en fin de contrat. Ce cas participe \u00e0 une tendance g\u00e9n\u00e9rale observ\u00e9e depuis plus de vingt ans, avec acc\u00e9l\u00e9ration depuis 9\/11, selon laquelle les divers crit\u00e8res d&rsquo;\u00e9ducation et de connaissance formant le niveau intellectuel n&rsquo;ont cess\u00e9 d&rsquo;\u00eatre abaiss\u00e9s pour l&rsquo;engagement dans les forces arm\u00e9es d&rsquo;une fa\u00e7on g\u00e9n\u00e9rale. Les questions soci\u00e9tale et de l&rsquo;immigration se sont greff\u00e9es sur cette tendance en l&rsquo;acc\u00e9l\u00e9rant radicalement \u00e0 cause de la dictature des quotas d&rsquo;engagement, tout cela d&rsquo;une fa\u00e7on extr\u00eamement discr\u00e8te \u00e0 cause de la sensibilit\u00e9 du sujet.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>On lira avec int\u00e9r\u00eat cet article centr\u00e9 sur le cas de l&rsquo;US Navy et des marins du genre f\u00e9minin, sans n\u00e9cessairement chercher inutilement des querelles \u00e0 l&rsquo;auteur, et l&rsquo;on appr\u00e9hendera mieux ainsi l&rsquo;un des facteurs qui interviennent dans la d\u00e9gradation qualitative acc\u00e9l\u00e9r\u00e9e des forces arm\u00e9es US. L&rsquo;on envisagera d&rsquo;appr\u00e9cier comment ces forces peuvent voir leur qualit\u00e9 et leur coh\u00e9sion g\u00e9n\u00e9rales se d\u00e9grader de plus en plus, notamment dans un pays (les USA) o&ugrave; l&rsquo;immigration est massive et o&ugrave; l&rsquo;int\u00e9gration est de plus en plus inexistante au profit du communautarisme qui a toujours exist\u00e9 dans une soci\u00e9t\u00e9 civile absorbant sans cesse des vagues d&rsquo;immigrants depuis la deuxi\u00e8me moiti\u00e9 du XIX\u00e8me si\u00e8cle. La crise am\u00e9ricaniste actuelle (\u00ab\u00a0D.C.-la-folle\u00a0\u00bb), qui est une crise de la d\u00e9sunion sinon de la dissolution nationales et de l&rsquo;effondrement des valeurs, <strong>fournit un cadre g\u00e9n\u00e9ral qui constitue lui aussi un effet et un acc\u00e9l\u00e9rateur \u00e0 la fois de cette d\u00e9cadence des valeurs n\u00e9cessaires \u00e0 la qualit\u00e9 de forces arm\u00e9es<\/strong>. Il est question bien entendu de la d\u00e9cadence du professionnalisme, mais aussi de la d\u00e9cadence du patriotisme, qui ne se fabrique ni ne se d\u00e9termine qualitativement au nombre de drapeaux qu&rsquo;on trouve devant nombre de maisons et \u00e0 tous les coins de rue aux USA.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>(Cette profusion de drapeaux, surtout depuis 9\/11, nous a toujours paru suspecte au regard des avatars en constante augmentation que rencontrent aussi bien la politique que la coh\u00e9sion nationale aux USA. On dirait presque qu&rsquo;elle en est une mesure par inversion.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Non seulement on lira l&rsquo;article avec int\u00e9r\u00eat, mais on fera bien, &ndash; c&rsquo;est notre conseil, &ndash; de s&rsquo;attarder aux tr\u00e8s nombreux commentaires qui apportent des pr\u00e9cisions extr\u00eamement int\u00e9ressantes sur l&rsquo;\u00e9tat des lieux dans les forces arm\u00e9es, et particuli\u00e8rement dans l&rsquo;U.S. Navy bien s&ucirc;r. Il est manifeste qu&rsquo;un certain nombre de membres des forces arm\u00e9es se sont attach\u00e9s \u00e0 cet article pour pouvoir faire para&icirc;tre avec une certaine s\u00e9curit\u00e9, notamment celle de l&rsquo;anonymat, des pr\u00e9cisions qui sont manifestement dissimul\u00e9es par les autorit\u00e9s.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Parlant de la \u00ab\u00a0diversit\u00e9\u00a0\u00bb au sein des forces arm\u00e9es US, entre <em>Latinos<\/em> et Africains-Am\u00e9ricains d\u00e9j\u00e0 implant\u00e9s aux USA, et les tr\u00e8s nombreux groupes d&rsquo;immigr\u00e9s divers plus r\u00e9cents, un des commentateurs remarquent que <strong>la militarisation actuelle des USA ressemblent de plus en plus \u00e0 la Rome de la phase ultime de d\u00e9cadence<\/strong>. Ses forces arm\u00e9es sont r\u00e9parties partout dans le monde et ne servent absolument plus \u00e0 prot\u00e9ger le peuple am\u00e9ricain mais les possessions et les int\u00e9r\u00eats des diverses \u00e9lites, directement ou indirectement rattach\u00e9es aux structures financi\u00e8res territoire national originel. Ces forces sont de plus en plus compos\u00e9es d&rsquo;une tr\u00e8s grande diversit\u00e9 ethnique avec des disparit\u00e9s consid\u00e9rables et des int\u00e9r\u00eats et des valeurs de plus en plus \u00e9loign\u00e9es du legs central des origines, <strong>comme l&rsquo;\u00e9taient devenues les l\u00e9gions romaines \u00e0 la fin de l&rsquo;aventure imp\u00e9riale<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>On comprendra que ce texte porte finalement moins sur le comportement des lobbies LGTBQ ou sur les pressions communautaristes qui jouent leur jeu dans le cadre du Syst\u00e8me aujourd&rsquo;hui, que sur le comportement des cadres sup\u00e9rieurs des forces arm\u00e9es US qui devraient avoir la charge de transmettre le legs de la tradition constituant une poutre-ma&icirc;tresse de la psychologie et de la coh\u00e9sion des forces arm\u00e9es en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral. Inutile donc de s&rsquo;\u00e9tonner si l&rsquo;on apprend qu&rsquo;un George S. Patton se retourne dans sa tombe, ou qu&rsquo;un Robert E. Lee, bien que chass\u00e9 ignominieusement de ses statues, se f\u00e9licite finalement de n&rsquo;avoir pas accept\u00e9 le commandement des arm\u00e9es de l&rsquo;Union qu&rsquo;on lui offrit en avril 1861, &ndash; si c&rsquo;\u00e9tait pour terminer comme \u00e7a, &ndash; \u00ab\u00a0tout \u00e7a (notamment la Guerre de S\u00e9cession] pour \u00e7a\u00a0\u00bb&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>On n&rsquo;a pas un exemple plus symbolique de cette d\u00e9cadence du corps des chefs de guerre que celui de l&rsquo;actuel secr\u00e9taire \u00e0 la d\u00e9fense, l&rsquo;ex-g\u00e9n\u00e9ral du tr\u00e8s-prestigieux Corps des Marines Mattis, qui se bagarre ferme pour adoucir, voire retarder, l&rsquo;ordre pr\u00e9sidentiel de ne pas accepter des transgenres dans les forces arm\u00e9es. Mattis nous assure que le surnom de \u00ab\u00a0<em>Mad Dog<\/em>\u00a0\u00bb qui lui est universellement appliqu\u00e9 n&rsquo;a jamais exist\u00e9, et l&rsquo;on comprend cela \u00e0 la lumi\u00e8re de ce comportement-qui lui vaudrait bien plut\u00f4t <strong>celui-ci de surnom, &ndash; beaucoup plus tendance, de \u00ab\u00a0<em>Mad Chicken<\/em>\u00ab\u00a0<\/strong>. On ignore ce qu&rsquo;en pensent les Marines du bois de Belleau, de Guadalcanal, d&rsquo;Iwo-Jima et d&rsquo;Okinawa&#8230; Sans doute se retournent-ils eux aussi dans leurs tombes puisque c&rsquo;est d\u00e9sormais la geste favorite (du latin <em>res gest&aelig;<\/em>, les hauts-faits) des anciens et de leurs \u00e2mes enfuies au regard de ce que leurs h\u00e9ritiers font de leurs legs. La devise du Corps des Marines \u00e9tant <em>Semper Fidelis<\/em>, on est en droit de se demander, &ndash; exactement, fid\u00e8le \u00e0 quoi ?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>L&rsquo;article &laquo; <em>A Politically Incorrect Question About Our Fender-Bender Navy<\/em> &raquo;, repris ci-dessous est sur <em>UNZ.com<\/em>, du <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/jderbyshire\/a-politically-incorrect-question-about-our-fender-bender-navy\/\">27 ao&ucirc;t 2017<\/a>&#8230; (Et n&rsquo;oubliez pas d&rsquo;aller aux commentaires d&rsquo;un grand int\u00e9r\u00eat en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral, et en nombre remarquablement \u00e9lev\u00e9, 140 au moment o&ugrave; nous reprenons l&rsquo;article.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><h4><em>dedefensa.org <\/em><\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>________________________<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><h2 class=\"titleset_b.deepgreen\" style=\"color:#75714d; font-size:1.65em; font-variant:small-caps\">A Politically Incorrect Question About Our Fender-Bender Navy<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The state of our military is a bit worrying. Those of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnderbyshire.com\/FamilyAlbum\/Huntington2012\/page.html#ftbenning\" title=\"http:\/\/www.johnderbyshire.com\/FamilyAlbum\/Huntington2012\/page.html#ftbenning\"><strong>us<\/strong><\/a> with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vdare.com\/posts\/sergeant-alexander-brimelow-leaves-usmc\" title=\"http:\/\/www.vdare.com\/posts\/sergeant-alexander-brimelow-leaves-usmc\"><strong>family members<\/strong><\/a> serving have more to worry about than the average. I have no doubt our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vdare.com\/articles\/memorial-day-2017-remembering-kevin-obrien-an-american-soldier-who-fought-the-good-fight\" title=\"http:\/\/www.vdare.com\/articles\/memorial-day-2017-remembering-kevin-obrien-an-american-soldier-who-fought-the-good-fight\"><strong>soldiers<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vdare.com\/articles\/dumbing-down-the-us-navy-a-national-disgrace\" title=\"http:\/\/www.vdare.com\/articles\/dumbing-down-the-us-navy-a-national-disgrace\"><strong>sailors<\/strong><\/a>, and airmen will do their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vdare.com\/articles\/act-of-valor-act-of-treason-obama-imposes-affirmative-action-on-navy-seals\" title=\"http:\/\/www.vdare.com\/articles\/act-of-valor-act-of-treason-obama-imposes-affirmative-action-on-navy-seals\"><strong>fighting best<\/strong><\/a> with any <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vdare.com\/articles\/us-iran-step-back-from-the-brink\" title=\"http:\/\/www.vdare.com\/articles\/us-iran-step-back-from-the-brink\"><strong>mission <\/strong><\/a>we assign them. But politicized leadership and stupid ideas about human nature may get in the way.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>These dark thoughts came to mind when I read about the latest fender-bender involving a U.S. warship. This happened when the U.S.S. <em>John S McCain<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/search-continues-for-10-missing-sailors-after-uss-mccain-collision-near-singapore-1.483763#.WaBXpiiGOCg\" title=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/search-continues-for-10-missing-sailors-after-uss-mccain-collision-near-singapore-1.483763#.WaBXpiiGOCg\"><strong>collided with a civilian oil tanker<\/strong><\/a> near Singapore. Ten of our sailors are missing, presumed dead. Five more sailors were injured.[ <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-4820136\/U-S-Navy-suspends-sea-search-efforts-missing-USS-McCain-sailors.html\" title=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-4820136\/U-S-Navy-suspends-sea-search-efforts-missing-USS-McCain-sailors.html\"><strong>Lost at sea: The ten sailors who are missing presumed dead after cargo ship hit a US Navy destroyer in the Pacific for the second time in three months<\/strong><\/a>, Daily Mail,<\/em> August 24, 2017.]<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>And this is the <em>fourth<\/em> serious accident involving U.S. Navy ships this year:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&bull; In January, the guided-missile cruiser U.S.S. <em>Antietam<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2017\/01\/31\/oil-spill-tokyo-bay-navy-cruiser-runs-aground.html\" title=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2017\/01\/31\/oil-spill-tokyo-bay-navy-cruiser-runs-aground.html\"><strong>ran aground in Tokyo Bay<\/strong><\/a>. There were no casualties, but eleven hundred gallons of oil were dumped into the water.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&bull; May 9th the cruiser U.S.S. <em>Lake Champlain<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2017\/05\/09\/us-navy-ship-collides-south-korean-fishing-boat.html\" title=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2017\/05\/09\/us-navy-ship-collides-south-korean-fishing-boat.html\"><strong>collided with a fishing boat<\/strong><\/a> off the east coast of South Korea. Again, no casualties.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&bull; June 17th the destroyer U.S.S. <em>Fitzgerald<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/news\/your-navy\/2017\/06\/16\/7-us-sailors-missing-after-catastrophic-collision\/\" title=\"http:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/news\/your-navy\/2017\/06\/16\/7-us-sailors-missing-after-catastrophic-collision\/\"><strong>collided with a Filipino container ship<\/strong><\/a> in the waters off Japan. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/checkpoint\/wp\/2017\/06\/19\/7-sailors-died-on-board-the-uss-fitzgerald-here-are-their-stories\/\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/checkpoint\/wp\/2017\/06\/19\/7-sailors-died-on-board-the-uss-fitzgerald-here-are-their-stories\/\"><strong>Seven of our sailors were killed<\/strong><\/a>, three more injured. What&rsquo;s the normal number of collisions per annum? Close to zero. Prior to this year, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/WORLD\/meast\/07\/23\/gulf.collision\/\" title=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/WORLD\/meast\/07\/23\/gulf.collision\/\"><strong>the last such incident was in 2004<\/strong><\/a>, when our aircraft carrier the U.S.S. <em>John F Kennedy<\/em> ran over a <a href=\"http:\/\/indigenousboats.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/whats-dhow.html\" title=\"http:\/\/indigenousboats.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/whats-dhow.html\"><strong>dhow<\/strong><\/a> in the Persian Gulf.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Speaking as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnderbyshire.com\/FamilyHistoryJD\/Documents\/rncadets.jpg\"><strong>a credentialed navigator<\/strong><\/a>, I say there&rsquo;s something wrong here. Not having your ship run aground or collide with other ships, is basic seamanship, and made easier than it&rsquo;s ever been by modern navigation technology. Human beings have been <a href=\"http:\/\/weaponsman.com\/?p=40378\" title=\"http:\/\/weaponsman.com\/?p=40378\"><strong>sailing ships<\/strong><\/a> on the sea for several thousand years, remember. This is not a new art.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>There&rsquo;s been some speculation that our Navy&rsquo;s high-tech navigation systems have been hacked into. There are a number of problems with that theory, one of them being that the Navy itself doesn&rsquo;t seem to believe it. Here for example is an extract from its report on the U.S.S. <em>Fitzgerald<\/em> incident&mdash;the one that killed seven sailors:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u00ab\u00a0The collision was avoidable and both ships demonstrated poor seamanship. Within <em>Fitzgerald<\/em>, flawed watch stander teamwork and inadequate leadership contributed to the collision that claimed the lives of seven <em>Fitzgerald<\/em> Sailors, injured three more, and damaged both ships &hellip;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Several junior officers were relieved of their duties due to poor seamanship and flawed teamwork as bridge and combat information center watch standers. Additional administrative actions were taken against members of both watch teams.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.c7f.navy.mil\/Media\/News\/Display\/Article\/1282155\/seventh-fleet-announces-uss-fitzgerald-accountability-determinations\/platform\/hootsuite\/\" title=\"http:\/\/www.c7f.navy.mil\/Media\/News\/Display\/Article\/1282155\/seventh-fleet-announces-uss-fitzgerald-accountability-determinations\/platform\/hootsuite\/\"><strong><em>Seventh Fleet Announces USS Fitzgerald Accountability Determinations<\/em><\/strong><\/a><em>, b<\/em>y Commander, U.S. 7th Fleet Public Affairs, August 17, 2017<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>In fairness to the crew of <em>Fitzgerald<\/em>, I should note that the report also contains the following:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u00ab\u00a0It was also evident from this review that the entire <em>Fitzgerald<\/em> crew demonstrated real toughness that night. Following the collision these sailors responded with urgency, determination and creativity to save their ship. Their rigorous damage control efforts and dauntless fighting in the immediate wake of the accident prevented further loss of life.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>OK, but it really looks as though we have a problem here. To misquote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.importanceofbeingearnest.co.uk\/lady-bracknell-quotes\/\" title=\"http:\/\/www.importanceofbeingearnest.co.uk\/lady-bracknell-quotes\/\"><strong>Lady Bracknell<\/strong><\/a>, one collision may be regarded as a misfortune; four looks like carelessness.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>And the Navy&rsquo;s own reports finger \u00ab\u00a0poor <a href=\"http:\/\/weaponsman.com\/?p=28693\" title=\"http:\/\/weaponsman.com\/?p=28693\"><strong>seamanship<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0\u00bb \u00ab\u00a0flawed teamwork,\u00a0\u00bb and \u00ab\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/weaponsman.com\/?p=40169\" title=\"http:\/\/weaponsman.com\/?p=40169\"><strong>inadequate leadership<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>It really looks as though the Navy has sailed into a zone of pretty acute personnel problems. But <a href=\"http:\/\/weaponsman.com\/?p=6588\" title=\"http:\/\/weaponsman.com\/?p=6588\"><strong>why would that be<\/strong><\/a>?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Call me over-suspicious [<em>You&rsquo;re over-suspicious!<\/em>] but I can&rsquo;t help thinking the issues are somewhat related to this:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u00ab\u00a0A record 16 out of 100 Navy women are reassigned from ships to shore duty due to pregnancy, according to data <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/340451706\/resp-101\" title=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/340451706\/resp-101\"><strong>obtained<\/strong><\/a> under the Freedom of Information Act by The Daily Caller News Foundation&rsquo;s Investigative Group.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>That number is up 2 percent from 2015, representing hundreds more who have to cut their deployments short, taxing both their unit&rsquo;s manpower, military budgets and combat readiness &hellip;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Overall, women unexpectedly leave their stations on Navy ships as much as 50 percent more frequently to return to land duty, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/340451863\/Sea-to-Shore-PCS-Transfers-by-Gender-FOIA-3\" title=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/340451863\/Sea-to-Shore-PCS-Transfers-by-Gender-FOIA-3\"><strong>documents<\/strong><\/a> obtained from the Navy.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2017\/03\/01\/exclusive-deployed-us-navy-has-a-pregnancy-problem-and-its-getting-worse\/\" title=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2017\/03\/01\/exclusive-deployed-us-navy-has-a-pregnancy-problem-and-its-getting-worse\/\"><strong>EXCLUSIVE: Deployed US Navy Has A Pregnancy Problem, And It&rsquo;s Getting Worse<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>By Richard Pollock,<em> Daily Caller,<\/em> May 1, 2017<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Oh, and what&rsquo;s this? A report from the <em>New York Times<\/em> just this past Wednesday: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/08\/23\/us\/fort-benning-sexual-assault.html?_r=0\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/08\/23\/us\/fort-benning-sexual-assault.html?_r=0\"><strong><em>Fort Benning Drill Sergeants Suspended Amid Sexual Misconduct Allegations<\/em><\/strong><\/a><em>.<\/em> [By Jacey Fortin, August 23, 2017]. Sample quote, after the stuff about sexual harassment allegations:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u00ab\u00a0The Pew Research Center said in a report this year that the presence of women in the United States military is growing. Women made up 14 percent of active duty Army personnel in 2015, and 15 percent of the active duty armed forces overall.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Concerning those allegations, by the way, I&rsquo;m willing to bet&mdash;and if I&rsquo;m wrong, someone who knows the facts please tell me and I will eat crow on the VDARE.com website&mdash;I&rsquo;m willing to bet that a large majority of those offending drill instructors are black, and a similarly large majority of the plaintiffs are white.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>That was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vdare.com\/posts\/what-color-are-drill-sergeants-in-fort-benning-sexual-harassment-scandal-the-daily-beast-thinks-theyre-white-but-thats-not-what-history-says\" title=\"http:\/\/www.vdare.com\/posts\/what-color-are-drill-sergeants-in-fort-benning-sexual-harassment-scandal-the-daily-beast-thinks-theyre-white-but-thats-not-what-history-says\"><strong>certainly the case<\/strong><\/a> (as I&rsquo;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vdare.com\/posts\/unearthing-hate-facts-cont\" title=\"http:\/\/www.vdare.com\/posts\/unearthing-hate-facts-cont\"><strong>noted before<\/strong><\/a>) in the Aberdeen Proving Ground NCO sex scandals of the &rsquo;90s&ndash;about 80% of the victims were white and 80% of the accused were black. [<em><a href=\"http:\/\/articles.baltimoresun.com\/1997-03-26\/news\/1997085071_1_drill-sergeants-female-drill-black-soldiers\" title=\"http:\/\/articles.baltimoresun.com\/1997-03-26\/news\/1997085071_1_drill-sergeants-female-drill-black-soldiers\"><strong>2 more Aberdeen sergeants charged NAACP says cases against black soldiers involve prejudice,<\/strong><\/a><\/em> By Scott Wilson, <em>Baltimore Sun<\/em>, March 26, 1997] (The official press release [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.benning.army.mil\/mcoe\/pao\/newsreleases\/2017\/PRESS%20RELEASE_DRILL%20SERGEANTS%20SUSPENDED%20PENDING%20INVESTIGATION.pdf\" title=\"http:\/\/www.benning.army.mil\/mcoe\/pao\/newsreleases\/2017\/PRESS%20RELEASE_DRILL%20SERGEANTS%20SUSPENDED%20PENDING%20INVESTIGATION.pdf\"><strong>PDF<\/strong><\/a>] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnderbyshire.com\/Opinions\/Culture\/onomasticdiversity.html\" title=\"http:\/\/www.johnderbyshire.com\/Opinions\/Culture\/onomasticdiversity.html\"><strong>names<\/strong><\/a> no <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vdare.com\/posts\/an-onomastic-favorite-shitavious-cook-gets-22-years\" title=\"http:\/\/www.vdare.com\/posts\/an-onomastic-favorite-shitavious-cook-gets-22-years\"><strong>names<\/strong><\/a>.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Now, I <em>don&rsquo;t<\/em> say that <a href=\"http:\/\/weaponsman.com\/?p=22387\" title=\"http:\/\/weaponsman.com\/?p=22387\"><strong>mixed-sex military units<\/strong><\/a> are the <a href=\"http:\/\/weaponsman.com\/?p=9520\" title=\"http:\/\/weaponsman.com\/?p=9520\"><strong>stupidest idea<\/strong><\/a> of the past hundred years. The competition for stupidest is just too stiff: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vdare.com\/articles\/the-worm-in-the-apple-the-washington-times-february-02-2003\" title=\"http:\/\/www.vdare.com\/articles\/the-worm-in-the-apple-the-washington-times-february-02-2003\"><strong>public-sector labor unions<\/strong><\/a>, Affirmative Action, mass Third World immigration, body <a href=\"http:\/\/www.returnofkings.com\/81129\/5-reasons-why-girls-with-tattoos-and-piercings-are-broken\" title=\"http:\/\/www.returnofkings.com\/81129\/5-reasons-why-girls-with-tattoos-and-piercings-are-broken\"><strong>piercing <\/strong><\/a>&hellip;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>I <em>do<\/em> say, though, that if I wanted to seriously degrade the military effectiveness of an enemy, I would do <a href=\"http:\/\/weaponsman.com\/?p=27682\" title=\"http:\/\/weaponsman.com\/?p=27682\"><strong>everything I could<\/strong><\/a> to get him <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vdare.com\/posts\/single-moms-in-the-army\" title=\"http:\/\/www.vdare.com\/posts\/single-moms-in-the-army\"><strong>integrating women into his combat units<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>After thirty years of cultural rot, our generals and admirals didn&rsquo;t get to be generals and generals by winning wars but by promoting the correct numbers of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vdare.com\/posts\/the-affirmative-action-army-meets-the-minority-occupation-government-and-that-means-waving-goodbye-to-syria\" title=\"http:\/\/www.vdare.com\/posts\/the-affirmative-action-army-meets-the-minority-occupation-government-and-that-means-waving-goodbye-to-syria\"><strong>blacks <\/strong><\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vdare.com\/articles\/three-forgotten-facts-about-the-fort-hood-massacre\" title=\"http:\/\/www.vdare.com\/articles\/three-forgotten-facts-about-the-fort-hood-massacre\"><strong>Muslims <\/strong><\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vdare.com\/posts\/latest-diversity-crisis-the-coast-guard-academy\" title=\"http:\/\/www.vdare.com\/posts\/latest-diversity-crisis-the-coast-guard-academy\"><strong>opening <\/strong><\/a>the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vdare.com\/radios\/radio-derb-hillary-to-badwhites-die-already-plus-privileged-black-lives-matter-at-west-point-etc\" title=\"http:\/\/www.vdare.com\/radios\/radio-derb-hillary-to-badwhites-die-already-plus-privileged-black-lives-matter-at-west-point-etc\"><strong>military academies<\/strong><\/a> to girls and homosexuals<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>They don&rsquo;t want to worry about steering ships. They want to focus the <em>serious<\/em> strategic questions facing the nation: installing <a href=\"http:\/\/weaponsman.com\/?p=34238\" title=\"http:\/\/weaponsman.com\/?p=34238\"><strong>transgender<\/strong><\/a> bathroom facilities in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vdare.com\/posts\/radio-derb-transcript-for-april-24-up-girls-on-submarines-etc\" title=\"http:\/\/www.vdare.com\/posts\/radio-derb-transcript-for-april-24-up-girls-on-submarines-etc\"><strong>submarines<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/weaponsman.com\/?p=27557\" title=\"http:\/\/weaponsman.com\/?p=27557\"><strong>tanks <\/strong><\/a>and fighter planes.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><h4>John Derbyshire<\/h4><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plut\u00f4t \u00ab\u00a0Mad Chicken\u00a0\u00bb que \u00ab\u00a0Mad Dog\u00a0\u00bb ? Ce texte-l\u00e0 a failli nous \u00e9chapper et nous le r\u00e9cup\u00e9rons de justesse. Il \u00e9tudie des remarques et des hypoth\u00e8ses particuli\u00e8rement d\u00e9testables pour la bienpensance postmoderne, jugeant pour le cas des USA que l&rsquo;implantation des divers LGTBQ dans les forces arm\u00e9es ainsi que la \u00ab\u00a0communautarisation\u00a0\u00bb jusqu&rsquo;au recrutement de migrants&hellip;&nbsp;<\/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":[14],"tags":[13308,8926,5185,13352,3961,11900,4063,3319,9966,2671,7736],"class_list":["post-77470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ouverture-libre","tag-collision","tag-communautarisme","tag-decadence","tag-derbyshire","tag-john","tag-mattis","tag-mccain","tag-navy","tag-rome","tag-us","tag-uss"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77470","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=77470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}