Archivo de la categoría 'Military History'

Feb1

THE NETWORKS WAR II.

(continuation)

The urban effective guerrilla war. Another principal domain for the swarming groups in the networks war theory.
It is not easy to use and defend the urban zones of repulse. Its employment demands high requirements to the rebel combatants:
An enough motivation, which encourages them to follow the arms way and risking their lives […]

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Publicado en: Military History Urban Guerrilla Warfare Al-Qaida Crisis and Conflicts Guerrilla Warfare Counterinsurgency Operations Modern Warfare Operational Strategy

Ene2

THE NETWORKS WAR

An Innovation or a Rhetorical Redundancy?

In the last five-year periods diverse theories are appearing on the action of military units in networks, or forming a “cluster”, around a slower tactical aim This with minor combative alert and/or deficiencies in exploration or intelligence and with worse shooting sectors for his rejection fires. An analysis […]

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Publicado en: Military Theory Military History Urban Guerrilla Warfare Al-Qaida Crisis and Conflicts Guerrilla Warfare Counterinsurgency Operations Modern Warfare


Nov1

THE PRINCIPLES OF WAR

What are they? How many there are? How do they serve?
A historical analytical tour from the Fighting Kingdoms of the ancient China up to their modern expression for the irregular or asymmetric war

The so called “principles” of the war or advises for good acting in it, which also are permanent, so as […]

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Publicado en: Military Theory Military History Maneuver Warfare Strategy Crisis and Conflicts Guerrilla Warfare Modern Warfare Education Operational Strategy

Ago1

A THEORY OF THE CONTEMPORARY WARS II.

(continuación)

The Last Operational Projections opposite to the Most recent Threats.
The balance of the nuclear weapons between both great atomic hegemonic powers (”guides and leaders” of their partners), is defined by the new START Treaty. This has been ratified on December 22, 2010 by the American Senate. And is hoped that […]

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Publicado en: The radical Islam Military Theory Military History Central Asia Al-Qaida Strategy Crisis and Conflicts Guerrilla Warfare Counterinsurgency Operations Modern Warfare Operational Strategy Atomic Conflicts


Jul3

A THEORY OF THE CONTEMPORARY WARS

The appearance of the atomic weapon at the end of the World War II supposed a milestone in the exposition, development and manifestation of the wars. The industrial modern powers, not necessarily advanced (neither China nor India were it), could develop, on having ended the World War and in a ripeness period […]

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Publicado en: Military Theory Military History Central Asia Al-Qaida Strategy Crisis and Conflicts Guerrilla Warfare Counterinsurgency Operations Modern Warfare Atomic Conflicts

Jun1

THE HUNT FOR BIN LADEN

The small units attacking with limited aim (a deep incursion, the capture of a critical position, the rescue of a personality, an ambush) constitute a military closed “system”. This condition imposes a few specific characteristics in his “interfaces of action” with the enemy. That not always are identical to those of the fight […]

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Publicado en: The radical Islam Military Theory Military History Central Asia Al-Qaida Crisis and Conflicts Guerrilla Warfare Counterinsurgency Operations Modern Warfare


Nov28

The North Korean Attack on Yeonpyeong.

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Or The Paranoia of a Communist Dynastic Regime and Closed Within Itself.

The Facts.

On Tuesday, November, 24 at 14:34 local time, the North Koreans began to beat with heavy fire the military base of the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong, approximately 7 Km2. Pyongyang was accusing the South Korean Army of initiating […]

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Publicado en: Military Theory Military History Politics Crisis and Conflicts Modern Warfare

Nov1

McChrystal, Petraeus and the Allied Strategy in Afghanistan

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At the end of June, 2010, diverse analyses appeared in the written press, that brings over the possible changes that might happen in the direction of the war in Afghanistan, on the occasion of the substitution of the general in command McChrystal by the more notorius general Petraeus. The above possibility […]

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Publicado en: The radical Islam Military History Central Asia Al-Qaida Strategy Crisis and Conflicts Guerrilla Warfare Modern Warfare


May1

The Suicide and the Islamic Jihad II.

(continuation)
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 […]

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Publicado en: The radical Islam Military Theory Military History Central Asia Al-Qaida Guerrilla Warfare Counterinsurgency Operations Modern Warfare

Abr1

The Islamic Jihad and the Suicide.

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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Publicado en: The radical Islam Military Theory Military History Central Asia Iraq Al-Qaida Crisis and Conflicts Guerrilla Warfare Modern Warfare Education


Mar1

THE CAPTURE OF BIN LADEN.

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 […]

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Publicado en: The radical Islam Military Theory Military History Central Asia Al-Qaida Strategy Crisis and Conflicts Guerrilla Warfare Counterinsurgency Operations Modern Warfare Operational Strategy

Feb1

THE SELF DEFENSE.

General introduction.
The self defense is a bivalent topic. At the light of the juridical classification it seems to be definite. But, when we go on to the casuistry and the practical cases, the application of the legitimate self defense is vague, tough and, probably, disconcerting.
And, in the moments in […]

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Publicado en: Military Theory Military History Politics Crisis and Conflicts Modern Warfare Education




 

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Enrique Alonso nació en La Habana. Tras el establecimiento del régimen comunista se trasladó a España, licenciándose en Ciencias Químicas en la Universidad de Oviedo.

Es titulado por la Universidad Complutense en Química y Tecnología del Petroleo (dos cursos) y en Logística por la Cámara de Comercio de Madrid (un curso). Ha realizado su labor profesional durante más de 30 años en REPSOL y empresas anteriores, absorbidas posteriormente. Su trabajo se centró en la investigación de lubricantes (Centro de Investigación de la calle Embajadores), el área comercial y la logística de lubricantes (unas 100 mil Tm. al año de productos a granel y envasados, con un presupuesto total de unos 1000 millones de ptas).

Ha sido colaborador en la década de los 80, del diario Pueblo y, a través de la agencia EFE, de diversos diarios españoles e hispanoamericanos en temas de política internacional y militares.

Es autor de la novela “Operación Elefante”, publicada en 1982, que trata minuciosa y extensamente de las operaciones y tácticas de las guerrillas y contraguerrillas en la Angola socialista prosoviética de Agostinho Neto, apoyada desde 1975 por tropas cubanas. 

En 2005 publicó en inglés el ensayo “On the Nature of War”, que es una teoría de la guerra basada en el desarrollo y la aplicación práctica de 10 “sistemas operativos”.

Actualmente es colaborador permanente de la revista española War Heat International.

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