Artículo War on the Rocks, 19.08.2015 Butch Bracknell, ex marine, abogado internacional y miembro del Truman National Security Project's Defense Council (University of Virginia)The seven-decade anniversary of the end of the Second World War gives us good reasons to reflect on the use of nuclear weapons in armed conflict and what...
Las otras armas de destrucción masiva
Artículo Estudios de Política Exterior, 06.08.2015 Jaime TorrojaCon el paso de los siglos, el ser humano ha ido refinando cada vez más los instrumentos que emplea para eliminar a aquellos que le son odiosos. El pináculo de la industria de la muerte quizá sean aquellas armas que tienen el terrorífico nombre de Armas de Destrucción Masiva (WMD...
Towards a Rational U.S. Strategy (Part II)
Artículo Consortiumnews, 01.07.2015 William R. Polk, consultor en política exterior y profesor de HarvardThe ultimate madness of today’s U.S. foreign policy is Official Washington’s eager embrace of a new Cold War against Russia with the potential for nuclear annihilation. A rational strategy would seek alternatives to this return to big-power confrontation. In Part One, I dealt at length with America’s relationship with...
Imperial Ambitions: Russia’s Military Buildup
Ensayo World Affairs, junio 2015 Stephen Blank, miembro de American Foreign Policy CouncilIn September 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin boasted that he could, at will, occupy any Eastern European capital in two days. This apparently spontaneous utterance reveals, probably more than Russia’s new official defense doctrine, Moscow’s true assessment of NATO’s capabilities, cohesion, and will to resist....
The Russian Military
Artículo CFR Backgrounder, 20.03.2015 Jonathan Masters, editor adjuntoIntroduction The Russian military suffered years of neglect after the Soviet collapse and no longer casts the shadow of a global superpower. However, the Russian armed forces are in the midst of a historic overhaul with significant consequences for Eurasian politics and security. Russian officials say the reforms are necessary to...
Lethal Autonomous Systems and the Plight of the Non-combatant
Artículo Georgia Institute of Technology Ronald ArkinIt seems a safe assumption, unfortunately, that humanity will persist in conducting warfare, as evidenced over all recorded history. New technology has historically made killing more efficient, for example with the invention of the longbow, artillery, armored vehicles, aircraft carriers, or nuclear weapons. Many view that each of these new technologies...
Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems: Future Challenges
Artículo Center for Security Studies (CSS): CSS Analyses on Security Policy - No 164, Noviembre 2014 Matthias Bieri y Marcel DickowThe challenge that armed drones pose for international law and arms control has only prevailed for a few years. However, experts are al- ready dealing with questions that will arise in the course of technical advances –...
“Algo huele mal en Dinamarca”
Editorial OpinionGlobal, 11.05.2015No hemos reparado suficientemente en Chile unas recientes declaraciones del Embajador de la Federación Rusa en Dinamarca, Mikhail Vanin, advirtiendo que si ese país resolvía ser parte del Sistema de Defensa Antimisiles (SDA), con la participación de buques de guerra daneses (de última generación), se constituiría en un "blanco legítimo" para las fuerzas nucleares...