Aveu tardif et enquête, quand les Usa ont aidé Saddam Hussein en lui fournissant les gaz ayant servi contre l’Iran : ▻http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/08/26/exclusive-cia-files-prove-america-helped-saddam-as-he-gassed-iran/amp
Aveu tardif et enquête, quand les Usa ont aidé Saddam Hussein en lui fournissant les gaz ayant servi contre l’Iran : ▻http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/08/26/exclusive-cia-files-prove-america-helped-saddam-as-he-gassed-iran/amp
General Keith Alexander : The Cowboy of the NSA
(Shane Harris, Sept 2013)
For NSA chief, terrorist threat drives passion to ‘collect it all’
(Ellen Nakashima & Joby Warrick, July 2013)
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/for-nsa-chief-terrorist-threat-drives-passion-to-collect-it-all/2013/07/14/3d26ef80-ea49-11e2-a301-ea5a8116d211_story.html
CIA Files Prove America Helped Saddam as He Gassed Iran
▻http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/08/26/exclusive-cia-files-prove-america-helped-saddam-as-he-gassed-iran
Août 2013,
The U.S. government may be considering military action in response to chemical strikes near Damascus. But a generation ago, America’s military and intelligence communities knew about and did nothing to stop a series of nerve gas attacks far more devastating than anything Syria has seen, Foreign Policy has learned.
In 1988, during the waning days of Iraq’s war with Iran, the United States learned through satellite imagery that Iran was about to gain a major strategic advantage by exploiting a hole in Iraqi defenses. U.S. intelligence officials conveyed the location of the Iranian troops to Iraq, fully aware that Hussein’s military would attack with chemical weapons, including sarin, a lethal nerve agent.
The Bomb Didn’t Beat Japan… Stalin Did | Foreign Policy
▻http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/05/30/the-bomb-didnt-beat-japan-stalin-did
It didn’t take a military genius to see that, while it might be possible to fight a decisive battle against one great power invading from one direction, it would not be possible to fight off two great powers attacking from two different directions. The Soviet invasion invalidated the military’s decisive battle strategy, just as it invalidated the diplomatic strategy. At a single stroke, all of Japan’s options evaporated. The Soviet invasion was strategically decisive — it foreclosed both of Japan’s options — while the bombing of Hiroshima (which foreclosed neither) was not.
En lien :
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/news/the_real_reason_america_used_nuclear_weapons_against_japan_it_was_no
New studies of the US, Japanese and Soviet diplomatic archives suggest that Truman’s main motive was to limit Soviet expansion in Asia, Kuznick claims. Japan surrendered because the Soviet Union began an invasion a few days after the Hiroshima bombing, not because of the atomic bombs themselves, he says.
According to an account by Walter Brown, assistant to then-US secretary of state James Byrnes, Truman agreed at a meeting three days before the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima that Japan was “looking for peace”. Truman was told by his army generals, Douglas Macarthur and Dwight Eisenhower, and his naval chief of staff, William Leahy, that there was no military need to use the bomb.
“Impressing Russia was more important than ending the war in Japan,” says Selden.
Finalement, les US auraient fait le même coup à la Russie au Japon avec les bombes, et à la Russie sur le front ouest avec le débarquement, que certains soupçonnent d’avoir été orchestré pour contre-balancer la percée soviétique.
Pour le débarquement de Normandie, il est bien attesté que Staline le réclamait avec énergie et constance.
Ce serait plutôt comparable avec le bombardement de Dresde.
Tiens, l’entrée WP sur ce sujet ayant engendré quelques controverses est très favorable au point de vue des É.-U. avec même un passage croquignolet…
Bombardement de Dresde — Wikipédia
▻https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardement_de_Dresde
Même sans ce bombardement, la ville de Dresde aurait peut-être partagé le sort de Berlin et Breslau, réduites en cendres par l’artillerie et les chars soviétiques.