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Australia's announcement that it will acquire at least 8 nuclear-powered attack submarines has been a notable surprise, especially since it was accompanied by another announcement of even more profound consequences: the formation of AUKUS between the US, the United Kingdom and Australia itself. (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.

To understand the rapid collapse of the Afghan government forces against the Taliban and the fall of Kabul, we must take into account a mix of political-military factors based on military balance and balance, military strategy and operations, and, finally, in political alliances and pacts. All these factors favored the Taliban, as we show below. Furthermore, the causes and nature of the collapse of the Afghan army and the defenses around the capital could explain what could be an Afghan national pact for an inclusive government, instead of a Taliban tyranny. (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 result of the war, despite the withdrawal from Afghanistan which we are witnessing practically live, has not been a defeat for the US or the West as a whole. On the other hand, the war destroyed Al Qaeda and domesticated the Taliban, ensuring that Afghanistan was no longer a sanctuary for international jihadists. The war was a failure of the nation-building mission that NATO supported, but not in the other two primary objectives. (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.

On August 11, the BBC published what clearly promised to be a bombshell: an investigation based on information found on the electronic tablet of a Russian mercenary from the Wagner Group in Libya. This had been abandoned on the Tripoli battlefield by its owner during a retreat. Far from containing truly new information about the practices or means of the Russian company, the truth is that the documents found have only served to demonize once again a practice - that of the use of mercenaries -, of undoubted usefulness but criticizable for various reasons, such as the lack of transparency, political control or accountability. (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 no need to use imagination or intimidation, really, we are in hell,” writes the director of the Rafik Hariri University Hospital, Firass Abiad[1] on his Twitter account regarding the crisis in Lebanon. A situation that, for some, can only be overcome with a miracle. However, there is still a way to go forward. To the tunnel in which Lebanon is immersed, no matter how dark and deep it may be, a way out can be found. The question lies in the price that must be paid to do it. Something that, at least for now, the country's political leadership, which has been enriched for years with a system that has gone bankrupt, does not seem to be willing to do. An immobility that is maintained, furthermore, by the lack of pressure from those who support them from abroad, their regional “employers”, in that direction and because [Keep reading…]

One of the most mentioned characteristics about the Cold War refers to the dimensions of the confrontation that took place between the main state powers of the time: the United States and the Soviet Union. Humanity had already witnessed rivalries of a similar nature at various times in the past, but, for the first time in history, technological advances led to the conflict being taken to planetary levels—and even reaching outer space. However, it is also necessary to recognize that this global dimension of bipolar tension did not manifest itself in the same way in all places in the world or with the same intensity[1]. In fact, there were long periods in which a good number of regions—generally those outside America and Eurasia—were quite outside this confrontation. One of the clearest examples of this situation of relative marginality with respect to [Keep reading…]