Blog histórico El Comercio, 06.10.2015 Miguel García MedinaPalestina ha utilizado distintos medios para expresar al mundo su deseo de existir como Estado. El 7 de octubre de 1985 cuatro milicianos palestinos asestaron un golpe inesperado a Occidente para reclamar a Israel la liberación de 50 “prisioneros políticos”. El crucero Achille Lauro, botado en Holanda en 1946, fue el objetivo de...
Countering a Shapeless Terrorist Threat
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...
La reconciliación Washington-La Habana y su impacto en la región
Juan Salazar Sparks[1]
Más de cinco décadas demoró la reanudación de las relaciones diplomáticas entre Cuba y los EEUU.- Los dos factores claves para poner fin al clima de guerra fría imperante entre ellos fueron, por una parte, los ingentes problemas económicos del régimen castrista y, por el otro, el importante giro dado por...
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The Rule of Boko Haram
Artículo The New York Review of Books, Vol.62 (12) 2015 Joshua HammerIn early May, during the final days of the hot, dry season, I flew to Yola, the capital of Adamawa State in eastern Nigeria and an apparent safe haven from the Boko Haram insurgency. Over the past year, the radical Islamic fighters had taken over large...
The Taliban
Resumen ejecutivo CFR "InfoGuide" Presentation, 22.01.2015
- The Taliban has outlasted the world’s most potent military forces and its two main factions now challenge the governments of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
- As U.S. troops draw down, the next phase of conflict will have consequences that extend far beyond the region.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)
Análisis CFR Backgrounders, 16.06.2015Introduction The militant Islamist group al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) was formed in January 2009 through a union of the Saudi and Yemeni branches of al-Qaeda. Jihadist antecedents in the region date to the early 1990s, when thousands of mujahadeen returned to Yemen after fighting the Soviet occupation in Afghanistan. Analysts rate the Yemen-based...
A Net Assessment on the Middle East
Análisis Geopolitical Weekly, 09.06.2015 George Friedman, fundador y presidente Stratfor Global IntelligenceThe term "Middle East" has become enormously elastic. The name originated with the British Foreign Office in the 19th century. The British divided the region into the Near East, the area closest to the United Kingdom and most of North Africa; the Far East, which was...
The Secret History of SEAL Team 6: Quiet Killings and Blurred Lines
Reportaje The New York Times,06.06.2015 Mark Mazzetti, Nicholas Kulish, Christopher Drew, Serge F. Kovaleski, Sean D. Naylor y John IsmayThe unit best known for killing Osama bin Laden has been converted into a global manhunting machine with limited outside oversight. They have plotted deadly missions from secret bases in the badlands of Somalia. In Afghanistan,...
ISIS and the Shia Revival in Iraq
Artículo The New York Review of Books, 04.06.2015 Nicolas Pelham“We’re ridding the world of polytheism, and spreading monotheism across the planet,” an ISIS preacher recently said in a video recording. Behind him one could see the ISIS faithful using sledgehammers, bulldozers, and explosives to destroy the eighth-century-BC citadel of the Assyrian king Sargon II at Khorsabad, ten...