Articles by Guillermo Pulido Pulido

In recent days, a Chinese spy balloon has been positioned, among other points, over the Malstrom base (Montana) where the United States deploys 150 ICBM missile silos. Although it was finally shot down, it managed to remain for hours on the perimeter of the aforementioned base. A fact that tells us that this incursion is not any kind of accident, but is deliberately directed at the core of the fundamental defensive system of any superpower: the nuclear deterrence arsenal. (Continue…) Dear reader, this article is exclusively for paying users. If you want to access the full text, you can subscribe to Ejercitos Magazine taking advantage of our offer for new subscribers through the following link.

The use of tactical (or non-strategic) nuclear weapons on the terrestrial battlefield is much more difficult to visualize and understand than is popularly assumed. In general, the usual thing is to simply extrapolate the apocalyptic images of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and then deduce that carrying out a few attacks with nuclear artillery fire would cause extremely destructive effects that would annihilate an enemy army with relative ease. (Continue…) Dear reader, this article is exclusively for paying users. If you want to access the full text, you can subscribe to Ejercitos Magazine taking advantage of our offer for new subscribers through the following link.

The war in Ukraine seems to be heading, step by step and inexorably, towards the first use of nuclear weapons, something unprecedented since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. It is the consequence of the passage, for years, towards a Second Nuclear Age and the normalization of the concept of Offensive Deterrence, which Russia has been putting into practice since the early stages of the conflict to modulate the degree of Western involvement. If Russia finally, faced with the threat of complete military defeat and the loss of conquered territories, resorts to atomic weapons, it will have done nothing other than confirm some of the theories that we explain in this article. (Continue…) Dear reader, this article is exclusively for paying users. If you want to access the full text, you can subscribe to Ejercitos Magazine taking advantage of our offer for new subscribers through the following link.

On October 16, the American newspaper Financial Times published what, in the world of Strategic Studies, was a real bomb: the alleged test, by China, of a fractional orbital bombardment system or FOBS (Fractional Orbital Bombardent System) combined with a hypersonic missile. The advantages of FOBS lie in their ability to attack by orbital flight, so they can describe unpredictable trajectories and with a flight profile that makes it very difficult to detect, track and intercept them with anti-missile systems or space weapons. Added to the advantages of orbital flight is that in the terminal phase of the attack the weapon re-enters the atmosphere and attacks as a hypersonic glide missile (HGV). Together, the sum of the characteristics of FOBS and HGV provides unique capabilities to prevail in a crisis or a [Keep reading…]

Australia's announcement that it will acquire at least 8 nuclear-powered attack submarines has been a notable surprise, especially since it was accompanied by another announcement of even more profound consequences: the formation of AUKUS between the US, the United Kingdom and Australia itself. (Continue…) Dear reader, this article is exclusively for paying users. If you want to access the full text, you can subscribe to Ejercitos Magazine taking advantage of our offer for new subscribers through the following link.

To understand the rapid collapse of the Afghan government forces against the Taliban and the fall of Kabul, we must take into account a mix of political-military factors based on military balance and balance, military strategy and operations, and, finally, in political alliances and pacts. All these factors favored the Taliban, as we show below. Furthermore, the causes and nature of the collapse of the Afghan army and the defenses around the capital could explain what could be an Afghan national pact for an inclusive government, instead of a Taliban tyranny. (Continue…) Dear reader, this article is exclusively for paying users. If you want to access the full text, you can subscribe to Ejercitos Magazine taking advantage of our offer for new subscribers through the following link.

The result of the war, despite the withdrawal from Afghanistan which we are witnessing practically live, has not been a defeat for the US or the West as a whole. On the other hand, the war destroyed Al Qaeda and domesticated the Taliban, ensuring that Afghanistan was no longer a sanctuary for international jihadists. The war was a failure of the nation-building mission that NATO supported, but not in the other two primary objectives. (Continue…) Dear reader, this article is exclusively for paying users. If you want to access the full text, you can subscribe to Ejercitos Magazine taking advantage of our offer for new subscribers through the following link.

It has recently become known that China is building 119 silos for intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), probably of the DF-41 type. The discovery is, potentially, one more step in the probable radical change of the structure of China's nuclear force, something that the Asian country has been carrying out for some years. However, the news does not take analysts and observers of Chinese nuclear strategy completely by surprise. For some years now, there has been a growing number of indications and rumors that China is updating and modifying its conservative nuclear strategy, which consisted of maintaining a very small number of warheads and low alert levels, moving towards a much larger arsenal. and with alert levels comparable to those of Russia and the USA. (Continued…) Dear reader, this article is exclusively for paying users. If you want access to the full text, you can subscribe to [Keep reading…]