Conflictos Modernos

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 […]

It is not easy to manage and defend the repulsing urban zones. Its employment demands high requirements to the Hamas combatants:
An enough motivation, which encourages them to follow the armed way and risking their lives for its cause. That appeases and rationalizes them the inevitable fear for the fighting in the nearby distances with a […]

ITS REAL POSSIBILITIES AS TERRORISTS’ USABLE WEAPON AND IN THE MODERN WARFARE. ITS INSTRUMENTS AND HISTORICAL CONTEXT.
The biological warfare is the military use, as war weapon, of the living pathogenic, animal or plant organisms, and of the natural poisonous products, called toxins. Since the germs and the bacteria are used in it, it is also […]

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 […]

ITS REAL POSSIBILITIES AS TERRORISTS’ USABLE WEAPON AND IN THE MODERN WARFARE. ITS INSTRUMENTS AND HISTORICAL CONTEXT.
The biological warfare is the military use, as war weapon, of the living pathogenic, animal or plant organisms, and of the natural poisonous products, called toxins. Since the germs and the bacteria are used in it, it is also […]

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 […]

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, […]