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Peace Operations or Peacekeeping Operations, despite their importance and the means allocated to them, have mostly resulted in an uncertain outcome. This should force us to investigate the deep causes behind these discouraging results and to dedicate resources not only to reconstruction, or to the imposition of peace, but also to understanding the environment in which operations are carried out, the local culture and of the conditions that can ultimately cause a perfectly planned mission to become a resounding fiasco. (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 Russian operations prior to the illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014 where the appearance of the so-called “little green men”, or troops without nationality markings, who deployed in strategic places on the peninsula, achieving the capitulation of the Ukrainian military detachments, with hardly any to use violence, surprised Western authorities and experts who saw a new manifestation of the art of war – the so-called hybrid war – in which strategic, operational and tactical doctrines and procedures broke with the traditional configuration of war conflict. . (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.

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Arrow-type projectiles, also known as kinetic penetrators or “KE” for their acronym in English, are the most effective ammunition in armored combat. Its penetration capacity lies in a dart made of a very dense material that is launched at very high speed. In general, arrow-type ammunition shares many things with projectiles fired from light weapons, such as rifles or pistols, although its different type of target clearly differentiates anti-material penetrating ammunition and conventional bullets. (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.

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.

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…]