Artículo 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...
Las relaciones militares Chile-Bolivia-Perú: Claves para la resolución de conflictos
Extracto de ponencia XII Congreso Nacional de Ciencia Política (Mendoza), 12-15.08.2015 Daniela Cervantes, Renata Santander y Francisca Gallardo, cientistas políticas de la UDPIntroducción. La relación que Chile ha tenido con sus países vecinos, específicamente con Perú y Bolivia, ha sido históricamente conflictiva a partir de la Guerra del Pacífico. Una larga tradición de conflictos que no han podido...
Pakistan’s Shocking Strategic Shift
Artículo National Interest, 05.08.2015 Sameer Lalwani, postdoctoral fellow en la RAND CorporationPakistan is often characterized as a belligerent, unyielding, and destabilizing force in international affairs. But despite longstanding and widespread negative perceptions, Pakistani behavior and strategic culture is changing for the better in important respects, as recently exemplified by anti-Taliban operations in the country’s North Waziristan region...
Why the Next Fighter Will Be Manned, and the One After That
Ensayo War on the Rocks, 05.08.2015 Mike Pietrucha, coronel oficial de la fuerza aerea de EEUU e instructor de guerra electrónicaSometimes 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...
How the Army Built the Habsburg Empire
Reseña de libro The National Interest, Vol.138 (July-August 2015) William Anthony Hay, profesor de historia y director del Instituto de Humanidades (Mississippi State University)Richard Bassett: For God and Kaiser: The Imperial Austrian Army, 1619–1918 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015)
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The reputation of the Austrian imperial army, unlike its Prussian counterpart, does not command much...Acotaciones sobre la paz del Chaco
Columna La Razón, 29.07.2015 Ramiro Prudencio LizónEs menester dejar bien sentado que la guerra del Chaco no se llevó a cabo por el petróleoEn este mes en que se han cumplido 80 años de la paz del Chaco, es necesario que los bolivianos tengamos una visión más objetiva de ese tremendo suceso y nos desprendamos de mitos...
China’s New Islands Are Clearly Military, U.S. Pacific Chief Says
Opinión Defense One, 24.07.2015 Kevin Baron, director ejecutivoAdm. Harry Harris, head of U.S. Pacific Command, says the vastly expanded reefs now look exactly like combat bases for fighters, bombers, ships, and surveillance. The top U.S. military officer in the Pacific sternly warned China on Friday to immediately cease its “aggressive coercive island building” in the South China...
The U.S. Hand in the Syrian Mess
Opinión Consortiumnews, 20.07.2015 Jonathan Marshall, investigador periodístico independiente(Part I) Neocons and the mainstream U.S. media place all the blame for the Syrian civil war on President Bashar al-Assad and Iran, but there is another side of the story in which Syria’s olive branches to the U.S. and Israel were spurned and a reckless drive for “regime change”.Syria’s current leader,...
A Solution for Syria
Análisis OpenDemocracy, 16.07.2015 Bassma Kodmani, director ejecutivo de Arab Reform InitiativeSyria is central to the security and future of the Middle East, but conditions for a resolution of the Syrian conflict through a political solution do not exist. An excerpt from a NOREF expert analysis. Creating the conditions for a political solution Syria is known to Arabs as the heart...
Towards a Rational U.S. Strategy (Part I)
Artículo Consortiumnews, 30.06.2015 William R. Polk, consejero en política exterior, escritor y profesor en HarvardCurrent U.S. foreign policy is driven by neoconservative ideologues and tough-talking “liberal interventionists” who spread chaos and death around the world while failing to serve real American interests. It’s time for a fundamental rethinking Judaism, Christianity and Islam have proclaimed that humankind faces the...