un petit dernier....
comment le déficit se creuse aux US
WASHINGTON: The U.S. military is reinforcing the sides of its topline mine-resistant vehicles to shore up what could be weak points as troops see a spike in armor-piercing roadside bombings across Iraq, The Associated Press has learned.
The surge in attacks is putting the mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicles (MRAPs) to the test, and so far they are largely passing. Statistics reviewed by the AP show that while bombings involving the deadly penetrating explosives have jumped by about 40 percent in the past three months, deaths in such bombings have dropped by as much as 17 percent.
Officials attribute much of the decline in deaths to the increased use of MRAPs, pronounced "M-raps." To date, about a half-dozen troops have died in incidents that involved the new bomb-resistant vehicles, and several of those deaths occurred in rollovers rather than from explosives penetrating the armor.
Il convient de rappeler que chacun de ces véhicules vaut 1.7m $
et un IED efficicace 800 dollars
Chaque blessé avec des séquelles coutera aux US un minimum de 750.000 $
Lire les papiers de Stieglitz sur le cout réel
ceci est à mettre en relation avec le livre d Attali..qui démontre que les empires meurent à chaque fois pour la même raison...la défense lointaine et couteuse de leurs frontieres lointaines qui les saignent à mort
2 ou 3 T pour la guerre en Irak et en Afghanistan.....dans 5 ,10 ans ca sera dans tous les livres d histoire.....
Si tu telephones à une voyante et qu elle ne decroche pas avant que ca sonne..raccroche