It is a commonplace to believe that nuclear confrontations cannot have a true winner and that everyone would be a loser, due to the millions of deaths that such a victory would cost. As a consequence, nuclear strategy and weapons would serve little purpose other than deterring an existential threat. The reality, however, is different… [Keep reading…]
Multi-domain battle is the new doctrine that guides the US Army and the USMC in the new international strategic environment of competition between great powers. It describes the new operating environment to which your ground forces have to adapt. Subsequently, attention in military policy will shift from the counterinsurgency war and the fight against terrorism, to focus from now on combating conventional armed forces with a technological capacity not too distant from the North American ones, whose advantages are shrinking. progressively and quickly. (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 is a commonplace in strategic studies to say that Clausewitz's teachings on war and strategy cannot be applied to nuclear strategy. It may seem that this separation is indisputable and somewhat truism, after all Clausewitz was not concerned with matters of deterrence, or how to prevent a war from breaking out, but rather he wrote about how wars were won, about the nature of war and its relationship with politics. (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.
Is it possible for European Union nations to maintain a credible deterrent against Russia without relying on the American arsenal? What strategy should a hypothetical European nuclear force follow? Is the existence of such a force compatible with the particular interests of each member state? European nuclear deterrence is an extremely complex issue that deserves to be examined in detail... [Keep reading…]
Both the size of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal and the structure of its force, as well as its posture, doctrine and strategy are the subject of debate and speculation due to the inconclusive and contradictory information on the matter. However, there are reasons to think that the Asian power is taking concrete steps to provide itself with warfighting capabilities with which to continue deterring India. (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.
Given that news about hypersonic missiles is increasingly frequent in general and specialized media, it is appropriate to make a list and brief analysis of the strategic implications of this type of weaponry, as well as the problems posed by its entry into service. [Keep reading…]
There is still no clear agreement on what mininukes are. However, the possibility that its use will become widespread in the future is raising notable interest on the part of the academic and military community, due to its important repercussions on strategic stability. The Trump administration's proposal - published in the 2018 Nuclear Posture Review - to add to the US nuclear arsenal two new low-yield submarine-launched nuclear warheads (one mounted on cruise missiles, another on Trident-II ballistic weapons), has generated a great stir, as well as exaggerated alarmism among certain sectors of arms control analysis, going so far as to affirm that such weapons lower the nuclear threshold and make nuclear war more probable. (Continue…) Dear reader, this article is exclusively for paying users. If you want access to the full text, you can subscribe to [Keep reading…]
The Second Nuclear Age is a fact. In recent decades, the stability of the Cold War, in which Mutual Assured Destruction made the use of nuclear weapons and direct conventional confrontation between the superpowers unreasonable, has only cracked. This predictable scenario, which dissuaded the great powers from intervening beyond the clearly marked lines and which distinguished between them and the second-rate powers by the much clearer scale of the number of warheads, is hardly sustainable anymore. In this way, the bipolar world has given way to a new scenario in which new powers and new strategic dyads and triads call into question everything we knew about nuclear deterrence and exchange and, with this, a Second World War has begun. Nuclear Era with unpredictable consequences. (Continue…) Dear reader, this article is exclusively for paying users. [Keep reading…]
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