Análisis Geopolitical Weekley, 01.09.2015 George Friedman, presidente de Stratfor Global IntelligenceHappenstance has brought me today to a house on the Austria-Germany border, just south of Salzburg. That puts me about 3 miles from the German town of Berchtesgaden, on the German side of the border. Adolf Hitler's home, the Berghof, was just outside the town, on a...
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...
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...
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...
Debating the Morality of Hiroshima
Análisis Geopolitical Weekley, 11.08.2015 George Friedman, presidente de Stratfor Global IntelligenceEach year at this time — the anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima — the world pauses. The pause is less to mourn the dead than to debate a moral question: whether the bombing was justified and, by extension, whether the United States unnecessarily slaughtered tens of...
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...
Hiroshima, 70 Years Later: Did Truman Make the Right Call?
Artículo The National Interest, 06.08.2015 James Holmes, profesor de estrategia (Naval War College)Huddle up with Teddy Roosevelt, Clausewitz, and Wylie—and then you be the judge. Retrospectives on the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki conjure up Theodore Roosevelt for me. That goes double when the anniversary is a multiple of ten—as it is today, the seventieth anniversary of...
Why Many Muslims Hate the West
Artículo Consortiumnews, 05.08.2015 William R. Polk, consultor en política internacional, escritor y ex profesor en HarvardMany Americans and Westerners are baffled by the violent rage expressed by many Muslims, but the reasons for their anger are real, deriving from a “deep history” of anti-Islamic wars and colonial exploitation of the Middle EastThe issue of terrorist attacks on America...
America’s Hiroshima and Nagasaki 70 Years Later
Ensayo 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...
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...