Conflictos Modernos

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. […]

The pompously so called “fourth generation wars” are the counterinsurgency wars  or guerrilla warfares or irregular wars or armed civil revolts or wars of liberation or organized banditry, which have always existed, coexisting with the conventional variants of warfare.
They are those that the USA has lost or not winned lately: Vietnam, The Lebanon (Marines pacifying disembarkation, […]