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Image provided by the Israel Defense Forces of one of the boats that were trying to infiltrate the coast (Source: IDF).

Hamas's war against Israel (III): the naval war

20/10/2023

In the early hours of the last day of the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah, waves of Hamas militants assaulted the defenses of the Gaza Strip using paragliders, vehicles and speedboats. An assault that was followed by large volleys of rockets launched at several towns in Israel, all of which has served, together, to plunge the country into a new war just as 50 years have passed since Yom Kippur.[i] Although For obvious reasons, land attacks have grabbed the headlines, the war on the coast has also had its importance, although limited given the superiority of the Israeli Navy. However, what has happened in the last few hours, as well as the possibility of actors such as Hezbollah becoming more directly involved in the conflict, reminds us of the importance of naval forces and opens the possibility that the action [Keep reading…]

Explosion caused by a Hamas drone after launching an explosive charge on an Israeli surveillance facility next to the border with the Gaza Strip. Source - Telegram.

Hamas's war against Israel (II): drones and lessons for Spain

16/10/2023

At this point, there is little to say about the barbarism unleashed by the Hamas terrorist organization on Israeli soil in recent days. The overwhelming death toll and the images that appeared on social networks and the media provide ample testimony to what happened. There are, however, aspects that are far from what the general media can cover and that are particularly worrying for countries like Spain, such as the use given by Hamas to certain drones, modified to circumvent Israeli C-UAS systems that, to make matters worse, , have just been recently acquired by our Air Force… (Continues…) Dear reader, this article is exclusive 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.

Members of the Al-Qassam brigades proudly display the body of a young German woman kidnapped and murdered during the Hamas attack against Israel. Source - Telegram.

Hamas's war against Israel (I): the Hamas raid

09/10/2023

The attack by the Hamas terrorist group against Israel began without warning, at approximately 6:30 in the morning on Saturday - Sabbath, a holiday for the Jewish community that also marked the end of the Simchat Torah holiday - 7 October 2023; Just almost 50 years after the surprise attack carried out by Egyptian and Syrian forces that began the Yom Kippur War of 1973. Just as then, the action has taken the Israeli intelligence and security services completely by surprise –26 of its 31 active battalions were deployed in the North of the country - causing very significant casualties - especially civilians - and leading the country back to war in the south, while remaining on alert in case it suffers an attack from the north by Hezbollah. (Continue…) Dear reader, this article is exclusively for paying users. Yeah [Keep reading…]

Aircraft carrier "HMS Queen Elizabeth". Source - Royal Navy.

Analysis of the new UK Defense Command Paper 2023

07/09/2023

The United Kingdom Ministry of Defense made public, on July 18, its latest Defense Strategy or Command Document, the Defense Command Paper 2023, under the heading: “Defence's response to a more contested and volatile world”; a document that defines the guidelines of the Ministry of Defense, and which highlights the supposed understanding by the British of the new threats facing the country and the need to have a global presence. (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 coup d'état in Niger has set in motion a series of dynamics that have placed various actors in the region on a collision course.

Is Niger “too big to fail”?

16/08/2023

The coup d'état in Niger has set in motion a series of dynamics that have placed various actors in the region on a collision course. With internal motivations, but with ramifications that go beyond Niger's own and even regional borders, we find ourselves facing a multidimensional conflict with its initial phase underway. Military boards, civilian governments, regional and international powers, with troops on the ground, including Wagner mercenaries, jihadist groups, criminal gangs and a punished population whose preferences are difficult to see beyond their own ethnicity or community. and who, on many occasions, are forced to move due to violence or lack of resources. Actors, with their agendas that already interacted and clashed before, will have to do so in a new and more complex - if possible - scenario, marked by the military coup in [Keep reading…]

The European Union must rediscover geopolitics with all its consequences. Source - Euractiv.

The war over Ukraine and the rediscovery of geopolitics

31/07/2023

The essence of the war problem did not change due to the enormity of its scale. The line of the Central Powers from the North Sea to the Aegean and extending vaguely beyond even to the Suez Canal was, after all, no different from the line of a small army entrenched across an isthmus, with each flank resting on the water. As long as France was treated as an autonomous theater, a complete stalemate existed, and the front of the German invaders could neither be pierced nor diverted. But once the vision was extended to the entire theater of war, and that vast war was conceived as if it were a single battle, turning movements of a more momentous character were open to the Allies. (Continue…) Dear reader, this article is exclusively for paying users. If you want to access the full text, [Keep reading…]

The EU-China relationship has changed drastically in recent years, after Brussels has gradually abandoned its initial naivety. Source - Café Evropa.

The evolution of the EU-China relationship

27/07/2023

The EU-China relationship has evolved in recent years, going from a European optimism based on erroneous premises and reinforced by the promise of great business that access to the Asian giant's market represents, to an increasingly pronounced skepticism, accentuated by the dependencies detected during the pandemic and the war in Ukraine. With the approval on June 30 of the Conclusions of the European Council on China, a new stage opens, in which Brussels aims to maintain a more balanced relationship, in which dependence is reduced to a minimum, trying to avoid breaking ties. economic as well as falling into a confrontation scenario. (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.

Open source intelligence (OSINT) in the Ukrainian war

24/07/2023

Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) began its journey in the interwar period, consolidating during the Second World War and fully developing with computerization. Since then, a long way has been traveled and progress has been made in the use of tools that an incipient community of analysts has been able to capitalize on during the current war in Ukraine, although not only: from the geolocation of enemy positions, to the analysis of shared information. In social networks, there are many fields in which, increasingly, experts outside the Armed Forces or traditional intelligence services are used. (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.

Germany's new National Security Strategy

07/07/2023

Last June 2023, Germany published, after a long period of waiting and uncertainty, its new National Security Strategy, the first in the history of this country. Its preparation has been coordinated by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Annalena Baerbock, and has lasted 15 months in total (it has been talked about since the formation of the current coalition government at the end of 2021). The outbreak of war in Ukraine has significantly influenced the document, helping to accelerate its process. Unfortunately for the German country, the marked differences between the government partners - which have also prevented the formation of a national Security Council that would imitate the Spanish National Security Directorate (DSN) or similar organizations in other European nations - do not They predict the best future for a crucial document, born in an exceptional context. (Keep going…) [Keep reading…]

Member of the Nigerian Armed Forces. Author - Sunday Alamba.

Nigeria's violent spiral

29/06/2023

The general elections of February 25 in Nigeria have highlighted the enormous challenges that the country faces regarding its future. The elections have produced a new president, the ruling party Bola Tinubu, a new vice president and a new Parliament. Tinubu is the president with the least support at the polls in memory. An election in whose transparency and cleanliness perhaps too much hope had been placed at the beginning and which, in the end, have revealed, and deepened, the deep cracks in the country. Some faults through which the different violence that shakes it today and that has increased in recent times flows. (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.