Archivos de Categoría: Armamentismo

ISIS (2): How the Islamic State Seized a Chemical Weapons Stockpile

Artículo
Foreign Policy, 17.08.2016
Harald Doornbos (periodista holandés) y Jenan Moussa (reportero de Al Aan TV de Dubai)

When jihadists captured a Syrian military base, they found a cache of some of the world’s most dangerous weapons buried in its bunkers. In Part II of an exclusive series, an Islamic State member explains how they eventually...

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North Korea (4): How North Korea Would Retaliate

Análisis
Stratfor Global Intelligence, 26.05.2016
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North Korea is powerless to prevent a U.S. strike on its nuclear program, but retaliation is well within its means. The significant military capability that North Korea has built up against South Korea is not advanced by Western standards, but there are practical...
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North Korea (5): The Cost of Intervention

Análisis
Stratfor Global Intelligence, 27.05.2016
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What North Korea lacks in sophistication it makes up for in guile. Its answer to any attack would go beyond conventional means to include its experienced commando force, cyberwarfare capability and submarine force, at the very least. Though North Korea has chemical weapons,...
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North Korea (1): Assessing the North Korean Hazard

Análisis
Stratfor Global Intelligence, 23.05.2016
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Few countries intrigue and perplex like the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Isolated by choice from the ebbs and flows of the international system, North Korea is an island of its own making. It is often painted as a weak, fearsome lunatic with delusions...
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The conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh

Editorial
The Economist, 15.04.2016
1 Few noticed when intense fighting broke out in early April in Nagorno-Karabakh, a disputed enclave between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Some 50 people were killed over four days, as tanks, helicopters and artillery lit up a long-forgotten front. The revival of the conflict briefly attracted...
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Antiterrorismo nuclear

Editorial
El País, 03.04.2016
  • La Cumbre para la Seguridad Nuclear termina con resultados positivos pero aún insuficientes
1453205945_802277_1453209267_noticia_normal La Cumbre para la Seguridad Nuclear concluida en Washington ha trabado compromisos concretos de interés, en vez de escudarse en el deseable pero aún retórico objetivo de lograr un mundo desnuclearizado. Aunque...
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The Nuclear Near East!

Opinión
Information Clearing House, 17.03.2016
Thierry Meyssan, periodista y activista político francés
While the West was applying pressure on Iran to abandon its civilian nuclear programme, the Saudis were buying the atomic bomb from Israel or Pakistan. In 1979, Israel completed the final adjustments to its atomic bomb, in collaboration with the apartheid régime of South Africa....
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Chile pretende reeditar sus ‘hazañas’

Columna
El Diario (Bol.), 12.03.2016
Severo Cruz, columnista boliviano
[caption id="attachment_23374" align="alignnone" width="320"](www.lindocomounsol.blogspot.com) (www.lindocomounsol.blogspot.com)[/caption] Chile, “a través de conflictos armados, buscaría ampliar su territorio en la forma en que lo ha hecho en el pasado”, relata un informe dado a conocer por el Centro de Investigación sobre la Globalización, con sede...
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How the West Underestimated Russia’s Military Power

Opinión
The Diplomat, 17.10.2015
Franz-Stefan Gady, editor adjunto y senior fellow del East-West Institute
  • Focusing on shortcomings in equipment made Western military analysts underestimate Moscow’s military capacity.
Russia’s military reforms have been misunderstood and its capabilities underestimated by the United States and Europe. That’s the conclusion of a new report by the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR). The...
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A Pivotal U.S.-Korea Summit?

Análisis
Council on Foreign Relations, 13.10.2015
Scott Snyder, miembro senior de Koreas Studies y director del programa US-Korea Policy
Restricting a Nuclear North Korea North Korea's persistent, belligerent rhetoric and unchecked efforts to develop nuclear and missile capabilities will top the Obama-Park summit's agenda. The immediate challenge is how to disrupt a pattern of North Korean long-range missile and...
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