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partials\/article\/node_text.volt --><\/p>\n<p class=\"node__paragraphe antonia-750r text-grey-800 pb-24 pb-md-32\">\nQuelques si\u00e8cles plus tard, dans les temps modernes de l\u2019histoire pingouine, le peuple des Pingouins entend faire la guerre, encore une fois, \u00e0 son ennemi h\u00e9r\u00e9ditaire, le peuple des Marsouins (<em>\u00ab\u00a0Qui dit voisins dit ennemis\u00a0\u00bb<\/em>). Ce qui inspire \u00e0 Anatole France, ironiste et strat\u00e8ge,<em> <\/em>cette profonde r\u00e9flexion sur l\u2019\u00e9quilibre des forces militaires dans le monde.<\/p>\n<p>      <!-- partials\/article\/node.volt --><br \/>\n<!-- partials\/article\/node_text.volt --><\/p>\n<p class=\"node__paragraphe antonia-750r text-grey-800 pb-24 pb-md-32\">\nR\u00e9flexion qui ne parle que trop \u00e0 notre plan\u00e8te en proie au r\u00e9armement universel, \u00e0 l\u2019affolement des politiques de d\u00e9fense et o\u00f9 se multiplient les th\u00e9\u00e2tres d\u2019op\u00e9rations. Citation.<\/p>\n<p>      <!-- partials\/article\/node.volt --><br \/>\n<!-- partials\/article\/node_text.volt --><\/p>\n<p class=\"node__paragraphe antonia-750r text-grey-800 pb-24 pb-md-32\">\n<em>\u00ab\u00a0Les Pingouins avaient la premi\u00e8re arm\u00e9e du monde. Les Marsouins aussi. Et il en \u00e9tait de m\u00eame des autres peuples de l\u2019Europe. Ce qui ne saurait surprendre pour peu qu\u2019on y r\u00e9fl\u00e9chisse. Car toutes les arm\u00e9es sont les premi\u00e8res du monde. La seconde arm\u00e9e du monde, s\u2019il pouvait en exister une, se trouverait dans un \u00e9tat d\u2019inf\u00e9riorit\u00e9 notoire\u00a0; elle serait assur\u00e9e d\u2019\u00eatre battue. Il faudrait la licencier tout de suite. Aussi toutes les arm\u00e9es sont-elles les premi\u00e8res du monde. C\u2019est ce que comprit, en France, l\u2019illustre colonel Marchand quand, interrog\u00e9 par des journalistes sur la guerre russo-japonaise <\/em>[1904\u00a0-1905] <em>avant le passage du <\/em>[fleuve]<em> Yalou, il n\u2019h\u00e9sita pas \u00e0 qualifier l\u2019arm\u00e9e russe de premi\u00e8re du monde ainsi que l\u2019arm\u00e9e japonaise. Et il est \u00e0 remarquer que, pour avoir essuy\u00e9 les plus effroyables revers, une arm\u00e9e ne d\u00e9choit pas de son rang de premi\u00e8re du monde. Car, si les\u00a0peuples rapportent leurs victoires \u00e0 l\u2019intelligence des g\u00e9n\u00e9raux et au courage des soldats, ils attribuent toujours leurs d\u00e9faites \u00e0 une inexplicable fatalit\u00e9.\u00a0\u00bb<\/em><\/p>\n<p>      <!-- partials\/article\/node.volt --><br \/>\n<!-- partials\/article\/node_text.volt --><\/p>\n<p>\n\u25d7 \u00ab\u00a0L\u2019\u00cele de Pingouins\u00a0\u00bb, livre\u00a0V, chapitre\u00a0IV.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nouvelobs.com\/idees\/20260228.OBS112772\/art-de-la-guerre-pourquoi-toutes-les-armees-sont-les-premieres-du-monde.html\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lire\u00a0plus\u00a0tard Google Actualit\u00e9s Partager Facebook Bluesky E-mail Copier le lien Envoyer S\u2019abonner Dans \u00ab\u00a0L\u2019\u00cele des Pingouins\u00a0\u00bb, roman paru en\u00a01908, Anatole France glose sur la guerre, comme un Clausewitz voltairien et plein de witz. 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