The suicide is a favorite weapon of the Islamic Jihad. The suicide is for the Islamic Jihad a cheap, sufficiently abundant, effective and very asymmetric, technical and economically, weapon. The sophisticated enemy sensors are of little use against her. The protective jackets also are of little use. The armored vehicles and […]
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The Islamic Jihad and the Suicide.
Publicado en: The radical Islam Military Theory Military History Central Asia Iraq Al-Qaida Crisis and Conflicts Guerrilla Warfare Modern Warfare Education
The defense of the military positions in the asymmetrical counterinsurgency warfare.
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 […]
Publicado en: The radical Islam Military Theory Military History Central Asia Iraq Urban Guerrilla Warfare Al-Qaida Counterinsurgency Operations Modern Warfare Operational Strategy
The urban guerrilla war in Iraq
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 […]
Publicado en: The radical Islam Military Theory Military History Central Asia Iraq Urban Guerrilla Warfare Al-Qaida Counterinsurgency Operations
The Counterinsurgency War in Iraq
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 […]
Publicado en: Military Theory Military History Central Asia Iraq Urban Guerrilla Warfare Al-Qaida Strategy Crisis and Conflicts Counterinsurgency Operations Modern Warfare

