Penser les opérations. Retour sur l'opération « Noroît » au Rwanda (1990‑1993)

Goya, Michel

3 septembre 2021

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Penser les opérations. Retour sur l'opération « Noroît » au Rwanda (1990‑1993)

Les opérations extérieures des années 1980 et 1990 ont été fertiles en illustrations d'un des plus célèbres aphorismes de Sun Tzu : « Stratégie sans tactique est la plus lente route vers la victoire, mais tactique sans stratégie n'est que du bruit avant la défaite. »

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Former military officer sent to Rwanda in 1992, Michel Goya describes how wars, blissfully called “external operations”, are decided by the President of the Republic alone. He underlines the incompetence of the Rwandan government army and recognizes that it was French soldiers who stopped the offensive of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (APR) army with an artillery battery. He congratulated himself on a military victory but noted a political failure which he attributed to democratization and the sharing of power. He wants to believe that the French objective was reached with the signing of the Arusha agreements in August 1993. He thus wants to make people forget that France continued arms deliveries and accepted on April 8, 1994 that a interim Government be constituted in flagrant violation of these agreements.