mardi 25 février 2014

Pentagone: un budget aussi bas qu'avant la Deuxième Guerre Mondiale


Le Secrétaire à la défense Chuck Hagel annonçait hier son intention de réduire sensiblement le budget militaire des États-Unis, inversant ainsi une tendance lourde depuis les attaques du 11 septembre 2001.

 "The proposal, released on Monday, takes into account the fiscal reality of government austerity and the political reality of a president who pledged to end two costly and exhausting land wars. A result, the officials argue, will be a military capable of defeating any adversary, but too small for protracted foreign occupations.

Officials who saw an early draft of the announcement acknowledge that budget cuts will impose greater risk on the armed forces if they are again ordered to carry out two large-scale military actions at the same time: Success would take longer, they say, and there would be a larger number of casualties. Officials also say that a smaller military could invite adventurism by adversaries.

 “You have to always keep your institution prepared, but you can’t carry a large land-war Defense Department when there is no large land war,” a senior Pentagon official said.

 La suite:
  http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/24/us/politics/pentagon-plans-to-shrink-army-to-pre-world-war-ii-level.html?src=me

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