Articles by Yago Rodríguez Rodríguez

In the last two decades the leap made by the armed forces of the People's Republic of China has been spectacular. From being a massive but very backward army, they have gone, thanks to the lessons of conflicts such as the Gulf War and humiliations such as the Taiwan Strait crisis of 1996, to putting all their efforts into developing modern weapons systems. The Type 99 battle tank, in its various and increasingly advanced variants, is a good example of this. [Keep reading…]

Using laser weapons on the battlefield is an old aspiration that is only now beginning to materialize. From the first developments, in the 50s, to modern systems, decades have passed marked more by promises and frustrations than by successes. However, in the last five years the systems being tested have multiplied and new technologies now allow us to have the first operational models with acceptable efficiency, inaugurating a new era on the battlefield. [Keep reading…]

Throughout the next few lines we will try to explain, in a brief and accessible way, the main lines of action of Turkish foreign policy, its motivations and its keys. To do this, we are going to follow an inductive procedure in which, through blocks, we will analyze the reasons that have led Turkey to embark on such disparate conflicts and what the future may hold. [Keep reading…]

The war in Syria, that love triangle between Assad supported by Russia, the atomized rebel groups with their various patrons and the Islamic State, has been and is not only one of the largest and most protracted conflicts of our time, but has also giving rise to a hybrid war that has seen the birth of new stratagems, sometimes of the most bizarre, to the more or less novel use of certain weapons and the appearance of a truly homemade R&D that results in the military capabilities of the groups in the conflict. . [Keep reading…]

The Joint Light Tactical Vehicle is much more than a program intended to replace a previous vehicle, as it must bear the burden of offering a substitute on par with the legendary Humvee, a vehicle that since its entry into service and with increasingly more variants protected and powerful has been the backbone of both the US Army and the US Marine Corps and, in addition, has marked an entire generation of soldiers, to whom it has offered unprecedented mobility. [Keep reading…]

Unknown to most, the battle of Marawi, fought between the Philippine military and an alliance of Islamist groups led by Abu Sayyaf and supported by Daesh, has marked a before and after in many ways. More than four months of fighting were necessary to expel a few hundred insurgents from the city who, taking advantage of the urban terrain, making massive use of small drones and barely using light weapons, managed to challenge an entire country. [Keep reading…]

Algeria is the main military power in the Maghreb despite Moroccan efforts aimed at modernizing its Armed Forces. Unlike its neighbor and main rival, Algeria not only continues to improve its equipment in service and incorporate new ones, but it is providing itself with a war industry to take into account, adopting new doctrines, tactics and procedures and also developing military capabilities. strategic attack and establishment of A2/AD zones that we must take into consideration, since they fully affect us. [Keep reading…]

The T-14 Armata is the weapon of the moment. Regardless of its virtues and possible shortcomings, which we will analyze throughout this article, the truth is that it has revolutionized the world of battle tanks in a way that no system has done for decades. In this sense, it is not so much that its capabilities are going to put NATO in check in the near future, but rather that it has managed to move a sector that had been stagnant for many years, living off the income of the Cold War and above all, its ending. (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.

Syria. Word that evokes the biggest war of the last decade. A country that was the cradle of Queen Zenobia and the Empire of Palmyra and today lies devastated under the scorching sun of the Levant. A country that serves as a game board on which the international relations of the 21st century are settled. Syria is also the place where Russia has tested its projection capacity in the first large-scale operation it has attempted at such a distance from its borders. [Keep reading…]