Archivos de Categoría: Defensa

Los ángeles de Stalin

Artículo
El Mundo, 12.04.2016
Lyuba Vinográdova, escritora rusa
[caption id="attachment_25551" align="alignnone" width="1031"]Mujeres pilotos soviéticas en Stalingrado en el otoño de 1942. Mujeres pilotos soviéticas en Stalingrado en el otoño de 1942.[/caption] Moscú estaba esperando a la Wehrmacht. Los colosales escaparates de la calle Gorki estaban cubiertos con sacos terreros hasta una...
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Afghanistan’s Inexhaustible Insurgency

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Startfor Global Intelligence, 24.03.2016
After nearly 15 years, the Taliban show no signs of slowing their insurgency in Afghanistan. Hopes that the group would participate in peace talks were recently dashed when it announced it would not do so, even though a small rival Islamist group, Hizb-i-Islami, agreed to be included. Afghanistan, China, Pakistan and the...
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The Obama Doctrine

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The Atlantic, abril 2016
Jeffrey Goldberg
  • The U.S. president talks through his hardest decisions about America’s role in the world.
Friday, August 30, 2013, the day the feckless Barack Obama brought to a premature end America’s reign as the world’s sole indispensable superpower—or, alternatively, the day the sagacious Barack Obama peered into the Middle Eastern abyss and stepped back...
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

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CFR Backgrounder, 17.02.2016
Jonathan Masters, segundo editor

Introduction

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a Cold War cornerstone of transatlantic security, has significantly recast its role in the past twenty years. Founded in 1949 as a bulwark against Soviet aggression, NATO has evolved to confront threats ranging from piracy off the Horn of Africa to human trafficking in the...
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The China-North Korea Relationship

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CFR Backgrounder, 08.02.2016
Eleanor Albert y Beina Xu
[caption id="attachment_22009" align="alignnone" width="921"]Chinese Communist Party official Liu Yunshan with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Pyongyang. Photo: Kyodo/Reuters Chinese Communist Party official Liu Yunshan with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Pyongyang. Photo: Kyodo/Reuters[/caption]

Introduction

China is North Korea’s most important ally,...
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Walk with the Devil: Evil Bargains and the Islamic State

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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...
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“The Iranian Threat” Who Is the Gravest Danger to World Peace?

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TomDispatch, 20.08.2015
Noam Chomsky, académico y profesor emeritus del Departamento de Linguística y Filosofía (MIT)
Throughout the world there is great relief and optimism about the nuclear deal reached in Vienna between Iran and the P5+1 nations, the five veto-holding members of the UN Security Council and Germany. Most of the world apparently shares the...
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Why the Next Fighter Will Be Manned, and the One After That

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War on the Rocks, 05.08.2015
Mike Pietrucha, coronel oficial de la fuerza aerea de EEUU e instructor de guerra electrónica
Sometimes a technology is so awe-inspiring that the imagination runs away with it — often far, far away from reality. Robots are like that. A lot of big and ultimately unfulfilled promises were made in robotics early...
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America’s Hiroshima and Nagasaki 70 Years Later

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OpenDemocracy, 06.08.2015
Tom Engelhardt (co-fundador del American Empire Project) y Christian Appy (profesor de historiaUniversity of Massachusetts)
Will an American president ever offer a formal apology? Will our country ever regret the dropping of “Little Boy” and “Fat Man,” those two bombs that burned hotter than the sun?
So many decades later, it’s hard to remember the kind...
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