Análisis Security Weekly, 10.09.2015 Scott StewartLast week's Security Weekly discussed how the digital revolution has allowed terrorist operatives employing leaderless resistance methods to act as their own media. For groups such as al Qaeda and the Islamic State, this ability greatly enhances the effectiveness of propaganda. At the same time, however, the information disseminated benefits authorities by providing valuable...
Llegan los godos al imperio vencido
Opinión El País, 18.09.2015 Arturo Pérez-Reverte, periodista y escritor españolEn el año 376 después de Cristo, en la frontera del Danubio se presentó una masa enorme de hombres, mujeres y niños. Eran refugiados godos que buscaban asilo, presionados por el avance de las hordas de Atila. Por diversas razones -entre otras, que Roma ya no era lo...
What’s the Point of Peacekeepers When they Don’t Keep the Peace?
Artículo The Guardian, 17.09.2015 Chris McGreal, escritor seniorFrom Rwanda to Bosnia, Haiti to Congo, failures raise questions about future of United Nations blue helmetsRwanda, 1994. The nadir of many lows for UN peacekeeping. Hundreds of desperate Tutsis sought refuge on the first day of the genocide at a school where 90 UN troops were under the command of...
1945: Asia’s Powers Converge at Okinawa
Análisis Stratfor Global Intelligence, 06.09.2015On Sept. 7, 1945, Japanese forces in the Ryukyu Islands officially surrendered to the Americans on the island of Okinawa. U.S. forces spent more than 80 days between April and June 1945 taking the island. The battle ended with 300,000 military and civilian casualties, the death of U.S. Lt. Gen. Simon Bolivar...
Walk with the Devil: Evil Bargains and the Islamic State
Artículo War on the Rocks, 02.09.2015 Patrick Porter, director académico del Strategic and Security Institute (University of Exeter)How to counter the Islamic State is an especially difficult problem for Western policymakers, but the issue of compromise, and which devil to dance with, cannot be dodged forever.“My children,” President Franklin Roosevelt pronounced in his fatherly way...
Conmemorando Hiroshima y Nagasaki (1945): una maniobra estratégica pero injustificada
Matías Cristóbal Salazar H.[1]
Si bien, las secuelas inmediatas de las bombas atómicas en Hiroshima y Nagasaki no fueron (significativamente) más avasalladoras que las destrucción de los bombardeos incendiarios en Tokio, éstas fueron un acto injustificado incentivado por intereses estratégicos y geopolíticos.El día 6 de agosto de 1945 el “Enola Gay”, un...
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Balas, abejas y chapuzas detienen una invasión
Artículo El País, 29.08.2015 Jacinto Antón, periodista (U. Autónoma de Barcelona) y escritor catalánEn Tanga, en África oriental, los alemanes consiguieron derrotar en 1914 a una fuerza británica muy superiorLa batalla de Tanga no podía faltar este verano, como broche de la serie. Es cierto que su nombre de resonancias festivas, que en realidad se refiere a...
Playing the Long Game on Iran: The Neoconservatives, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the Republicans Game the System
Artículo TomDispatch, 23.08.2015 David Bromwich, columnista y profesor de literatura (Yale University)“We’re going to push and push until some larger force makes us stop.” David Addington, the legal adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney, made that declaration to Jack Goldsmith of the Office of Legal Counsel in the months after September 11, 2001. Goldsmith...
Yemen in Meltdown: Domestic and Regional Competitions and the Destruction of Nationhood
Artículo IDSA (Special Feature), 12.08.2015 Talmiz Ahmad, embajador (r) indioIn the third week of July 2015, the port, airport and presidential palace in Aden, the historic city at the mouth of the Red Sea, fell into the hands of forces representing the ousted Yemeni president, Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi, marking the first success in the counter-assault mounted...
One Year After the War: Gaza’s Lost Hopes
Opinión OpenDemocracy, 20.08.2015 Yasmeen Al-Khoudary, estudiante de magister en Cultural Heritage Studies (University College London)A letter from Gaza, describing the impossibility of getting back to 'normal' one year after the war. Real change is needed before it is too late.One year after we went through the third war on the Gaza Strip in six years, I find...