Blog Institute for Political Economy, 19.09.2018 Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, ex Secretario Asistente del Tesoro de Política EconómicaIn an act of intentional deception, Israel used a Russian airplane to cloak an Israeli attack on a Syrian ground position, with the consequence that Syrian air defense missiles downed the Russian airplane with the lost of 15 Russian military lives. In...
Intervención rusa en Siria
Carta OpinionGlobal, 21.09.2018 Riad Fouad Saade, empresario libanés y cónsul honorario de Chile en BeirutSoon I shall have the pleasure of sharing with you during my annual conference at the Diplomatic Academy – Andres Bello and at ANEPE, my views about the Middle East developments. For many years I have insisted that M-E conflicts were no more regional,...
The End of the Fighting General
Artículo Foreign Policy, 12.09.2018 B.A. Friedman, analista militar editor asociado (Strategy Bridge)
America’s top brass should abandon dreams of battlefield glory—and focus on paperwork instead
It’s widely understood that warfare evolves with the technology available to combatants. But it’s often forgotten that tactical leadership—the art of command in battle—likewise evolves. For centuries, fighting generals such as Alexander the Great, Genghis...The Future of War
Editorial Foreign Policy, 12.09.2018 Jonathan Tepperman, editor en jefeAfter years of refinement, a new weapon started cutting a swath through the battlefields of Europe. It was relatively cheap, accurate, easy to use—and so powerful it could punch through the best defenses. With the touch of a trigger, anyone carrying the weapon could render expensive, state-of-the-art combat systems...
El 11 de septiembre en varias latitudes
Blog republica.com, 11.09.2018 Inocencio Arias, embajador (r) y columnista españolEn España, la cuestión catalana lleva a que bastantes de nosotros, en número quizás decreciente y con un cierto hastío, estemos más o menos pendiente de lo que ocurre en la Diada catalana. En la Moncloa actual suspirarán porque los exabruptos de Torra no parezcan en exceso belicosos;...
Turkey’s damage-control campaign in Idlib
Blog Middle East Institute, 04.09.2018 Robert S. Ford, embajador (r) e investigador norteamericano (MEI)The presidents of Russia, Iran, and Turkey will meet on Friday, Sept. 7, in Tehran to discuss agreed-upon paths forward in the Syrian war. The Turkish government hopes to forestall a massive Syrian government assault on the crowded opposition-held province of Idlib. Ankara is...
La guerra civil, la memoria y el cine
Blog republica.com, 04.09.2018 Inocenio Arias, embajador (r) y columnista españolLa guerra civil española ha sido abundantemente llevada a la pantalla. Por extranjeros y españoles. Los primeros no hicieron precisamente muchas obras maestras. Hay algunas basadas en obras de Hemingway un tanto flojitas. Pensemos en “¿Por quién doblan las campanas?”, con una poco creíble Ingrid Bergman que se...
Uri Avnery, He Was One Of My Few Middle East Heroes
Obituary The Independent, 20.08.2018 Robert Fisk, corresponsal basado en Beirut
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There he is in my six-year-old notebook, very much alive, still demanding peace with the Palestinians, peace with Hamas, and generosity and a Palestinian state on the old 1967 borders – and he believes Israel could have peace tomorrow
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Kofi Annan, the Peacemaker Who Knew How to Play Big-Power Politics
Artículo World Politics Review, 20.08.2018 Richard Gowan, académico (United Nations University’s Centre for Policy Research-European Council on Foreign Relations) y profesor (U. de Columbia)[caption id="attachment_32536" align="alignright" width="405"]
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Kofi Annan’s career was... Las deudas del PS con el PC
Blog fernandothauby.com, 07.07.2018 Fernando Thauby, capitán de navío (r)El 9 de septiembre de 1973, siendo presidente Salvador Allende y José Tohá Ministro de Defensa, el senador socialista Carlos Altamirano, ante una multitud anunció: “A nuestro juicio, compañeros, el golpe reaccionario se ataja golpeando al golpe. No se ataja conciliando con los sediciosos. El golpe no se combate...