JF : The Tragedy of the American Military
USA - Per-capita military enlistments from 2000 to 2010, grouped by 3-digit zip code
Map design and development: Frankie Dintino. Sources: Department of Defense, US Census Bureau
The Tragedy of the American Military
The American public and its political leadership will do anything for the military except take it seriously. The result is a chickenhawk nation in which careless spending and strategic folly combine to lure America into endless wars it can’t win.
James Fallows, The Atlantic, January/February 2015
« As I listened to Obama (MacDill Air Force Base, 17.09.2014) that day in the airport and observed the hum of preoccupied America around me, I thought that the parts of the presidential speech few Americans were listening to were the ones historians might someday seize upon to explain the temper of our times.
If I were writing such a history now, I would call it Chickenhawk* Nation, based on the derisive term for those eager to go to war, as long as someone else is going. It would be the story of a country willing to do anything for its military except take it seriously. As a result, what happens to all institutions that escape serious external scrutiny and engagement has happened to our military ».
http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/2014/09/17/president-obama-speaks-macdill-air-force-base
* va-t-en-guerre ? A chickenhawk is a person in a position of public prominence or power who displays Aggressive support for military force / A documentable lack of combat experience
Il évoque les dépenses astronomiques (4% du revenu national), liées à une fois infinie dans la technologie de pointe (F 35, drones…) et l’incapacité à remporter la victoire et à établir une paix durable. Il décrit le rôle d’officiers ambitieux qui pensent surtout à leur seconde carrière comme consultants salariés par les fabricants d’armes. Les Américains sont prompts à dénoncer le poids des impôts, les échecs du système médical ou du système scolaire. Mais l'armée et les militaires échappent à tout débat démocratique sérieux.
« Every institution has problems, and at every stage of U.S. history, some critics have considered the U.S. military overfunded, underprepared, too insular and self-regarding, or flawed in some other way. The difference now, I contend, is that these modern distortions all flow in one way or another from the chickenhawk basis of today’s defense strategy.
At enormous cost, both financial and human, the nation supports the world’s most powerful armed force. But because so small a sliver of the population has a direct stake in the consequences of military action, the normal democratic feedbacks do not work ».
Deux cartes représentent l’origine géographique des soldats et celle des soldats tués lors des guerres d’Afghanistan et d’Irak.
Une troisième liste les industriels intéressés à la construction du F 35, un fiasco industriel et financier. (« Parts from the F-35 are sourced from over 250 locations around the globe, spanning 11 countries and, in the U.S., more than 90 congressional districts »)
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Japon : Photos du tsunami - 3
48 photos de la catastrophe sur le site de The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/03/earthquake-in-japan/100022/
Les photos de The Atlantic dans Google images
A wave approaches Miyako City from the Heigawa estuary in Iwate Prefecture - 11/03/2011
Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, Infocus
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/03/japans-earthquake---the-aftermath/100023/
Japan quake and tsunami 11/03/2011 - Houses are swept by water in Natori City
(The Atlantic, Infocus - image n° 14)
[ ajout 30/03 :
Un survol aérien de la côte au nord de Sendai :
http://www.ajiko.co.jp/bousai/touhoku2011/touhoku_eng.htm
Les images d'ABC Australie
http://www.abc.net.au/news/events/japan-quake-2011/beforeafter1.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/events/japan-quake-2011/beforeafter2.htm
Natori, photos dans The Indu (voir aussi les photos 4 et 7)
http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/article1528566.ece?viewImage=1
une page de la Cité des sciences sur le tsunami et Fukushima
http://tinyurl.com/sc-tsunami2011
Boston.com, The big picture
March 11 : Massive Earthquake hits Japan
(Natori, Sendai (vague), Oarai (cercles), Iwaki, Hitachinaka (autos)
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/03/massive_earthquake_hits_japan.html
March 12 : Earthquake aftermath
Kamaishi, Minamisanriku, enfant radiation F Daini, Kensennuma, Sendai (conteneurs), Natori inondé , Minamisanriku devasté, sauveteurs
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/03/japan_earthquake_aftermath.html
March 14 : Japan: Vast devastation
Otsuchi (immeubles, navire sur un immeuble), survivants, radioactivité
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/03/japan_-_vast_devastation.html
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- Plusieurs adresses sont signalées par François Arnal : http://twitter.com/arnalgeo
Centrales et zones sismiques dans le monde - The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/world/japan-nuclear-reactors-and-seismic-activity/
infographie de la centrale nucléaire de Fukushima - The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/03/12/world/asia/the-explosion-at-the-japanese-reactor.html?ref=asia
- Onogawa, Miyagi, Natori, Soma, Fuksushima,
Misawa, Hachinohe, Minamisanriku , Miyako , Miyagino ...
A Strasbourg le Sertit a cartographié les zones potentiellement affectées par le tsunami
Ex de Miyagino et Fukushima - Image à télécharger en taille d'origine -
Qui connaîtrait l'adresse d'une carte topographique du littoral du Nord-Est du Tohoku (courbes de niveau ) ?
La page Séisme au Japon (Tôhoku) 11 mars 2011
du site de Rémi Scoccimarro, le toulousain, contient la réponse.
Il propose aussi une analyse du géographe Philippe Pelletier
http://japgeo.free.fr/ (source : François Arnal)
