Conflictos Modernos

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The principal branches of the Islam and their ideology.

The Sunnism, which follow nowadays 90 % of the Muslims, also accepts as Allah´s revelation the tradition (the Sunna) of the Prophet. These are his facts and his commentaries or hadices. The major or minor rigor in the selection and acceptance of […]

Introduction.

Bin Laden is the principal responsible for the attempts of September 11, 2001. And also probably those of March 11, 2004. But in a lax way, of ideological religious sponsorship. As he was in these dates, first sheltered in Afghanistan, and later hidden in its inaccessible and […]

Her Historical Context
Her Theory and Evolution

Introduction.

The theory of the maneuver warfare tried to give a practical solution to the predisposition of the North American ground military forces of using exaggerated or inopportunely the heavy fire support. As their principal “argument” or action over the enemy, in the combats or in their […]

In this “blog” I present since a long time ago, a list of “recommended books on military theory “, that is very visited. I have to admit, as a deficiency, that in it I have not included any book on the guerrilla warfare. The actual, historical and social importance of the irregular war phenomenon is […]

Introduction.
Ernesto Guevara and de la Serna, who signed as “Che” the Banco Nacional of Cuba money bills, was an educated, young, disciplined and methodical man. He was capable of analyzing the “military” path of the Cuban revolution from 1956 to 1958. And he extracted a few characteristics of how it developed this way and why […]

A Fourth Generation (asymmetrical, Guerrilla) War in Central Asia.  
How do Western and Pakistani Armies develop their military operations against the Taliban and al-Qaeda?  What is the idiosyncrasy of the 40 million Pasthuns who live in the territories infected by them? How is the Pashtunwali or honor’s code of their tribes? How can be better […]

The effective defense of the billeting, redoubts and military camps from the attack and harassment of the irregular armed rebels is based on three operative qualities: the initiative, the mobility and the offensive action. These, in turn, are directly determined by the mentality and the combative disposition of the military men (which depend fundamentally on […]

Stalingrad (1942) and the Iraqis cities (2007). Are they two “parallel battles”?
 
In the description that follows, our intelligent reader will be able to see the similarities and the differences of these urban battles. And to extract his conclusions and possibilities. They are separated in the time by 65 years, but they are sensitively equal in […]

 Possibilities and Faults of the Conflicting Rivals. Why can win the Iraqi authorities?
The whole virulence and force estimated in the Iraqi insurgency are ballasted by his divisions, his divergent or opposite interests, his scanty real combative capacity and his problems to join combative major effective units. The people is neutral in these moments and only […]

I offer a books´list on military theory, which reading will be very useful to you. And that I consider to be fundamental to know better the military topics and not simply to read a more or less repeated history.
I am including one of my book, fruit of my years of dedication to this topic, which content you […]

The chemical warfare is the employment as military weapon of the chemical products capable of damaging, hurting or killing the living beings. The chemical products for the war are named chemical military agents and are classifyied under types or categories, according to the effect they produce in the victims. Often the agents are called generically ” poisonous […]

Let’s see some examples of these irregular social-military conflicts :
Country and conflict nature.   Period.    Military and political result.
 
Greece, communist. 1946 to 1949. Suffocated.
Malaya, communist, tied to the Chinese etnia. 1947 to 1960. Suffocated.
French Indochina. 1946 to 1954. Creation of both republics of Vietnam.
The Philippines, communist. 1947 to 1952. Suffocated.
Kenya, nationalist. 1952 to 1959. Independence.
Algeria, nationalist. 1954 to 1962. Independence.
Cyprus, nationalist. 1955 to 1959. Independence.
South Vietnam. 1959 to 1975. Unification of the country under the aegis of North Vietnam. […]