Conflict

The dispute between Venezuela and Guyana over the sovereignty of the Essequibo territory dates back almost two centuries. It has had comings and goings, but it remains unresolved to this day. However, tension began to rise in 2015 and has escalated in the last six months. A review of the economic, political, internal and external aspects of this dispute can help to better understand the underlying current that flows under the current discord around the Essequibo. Recovering a past around which there is consensus, which coheres, to try to solve the problems of the present is seen as a strategy of dubious effectiveness at the outset. However, it seems to be the path chosen by Venezuela, immersed as it has been for years in one of the most difficult times in its recent history and with a regime in low times. (Continues…) Dear reader, this [Keep reading…]

In recent weeks, the National Intelligence Center (CNI) has once again come to light, after it was discovered that two of its agents worked for a foreign agency in exchange for money. This latest scandal has once again called into question the work of an institution that, like all those in the field, is all the more effective the less it is talked about. Despite the controversy, which adds to other previous ones such as those related to the "Pegasus case" or the former spy Roberto Flórez, the institution continues to improve its internal controls and establish new mechanisms to minimize the possibility of events like these happening again. repeat itself, however difficult it may be to achieve. (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 relative stability that Cameroon had enjoyed years ago has been deteriorating in recent times, following a path parallel to that of the rest of the region in which it is located, near the Sahel, the Lake Chad basin, in West Africa and in the Gulf of Guinea. A growing regional destabilization whose underlying factors coincide with those observed in Cameroon. Among them, a serious identity conflict between Anglophones and a Francophone State in the southwest, the growing threat of jihadist groups in the north, intercommunity fights and the dramatic effects on the population of adverse weather, which leaves cyclical waves of internally displaced people. , who are joined by those fleeing different conflicts and refugees from neighboring countries. Great governance challenges that a nonagenarian president, with more than 40 years in office, and a [Keep reading…]

For more than a decade and a half, Israel has confronted Hamas in Gaza, with cycles of violence and intense fighting followed by periods of relative calm. A time in which it has been possible to observe how urban warfare in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has mutated and how an advanced army, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), has evolved and innovated at all levels - from operational to organizational culture, through technology - to combat a weaker, but extremely adaptable, decentralized irregular force, with relative firepower thanks to the “democratization of lethality” and capable of camouflaging itself among the civilian population and “disappearing” in broad daylight. In this sense, the experiences acquired during the urban combats within the framework of the Second Intifada, added to the lessons learned through US operations in the War Against [Keep reading…]

The elaborate and bloody attack led by Hamas on October 7 against Israeli territory marks a before and after not only in Israel, and in the relationship between Israelis and Palestinians, but beyond, in the region. And it does so for various reasons, among them, the rupture of security and defense paradigms in Israel, the exposure of a failure of intelligence and political leadership and the shock that it has caused in the configuration of the possible new relations between the countries in the area, and with the United States. For all this, and several other reasons, there is no fear of describing the Hamas offensive as an unprecedented action. (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.