Frame extracted from a video uploaded to the network by the TIP
Terrorism

Hizb Al-Islāmī Al-Turkistānī

At the end of May 2018, a video titled “Emigration to God” was broadcast through channels through which jihadist propaganda usually flows. The recording contained, as is usual in this type of product, criticism of the decadent Western system. It also included the testimony of several citizens, including one from Mauritius, another from Canada and two more from France. All of them narrated their lives in each of those countries and denounced what from their point of view they considered attacks against them and against other Muslims. In the video they also emphasize that, despite the obvious losses suffered by the different jihadist groups, Syria continues to be a safe "refuge" for the Muslims of the world and that all of them should contribute to its defense. The video was signed by Ḥizb al-Islāmī al-Turkistānī in Bilād al-Shām, the Turkestan Islamic Party [Keep reading…]

The protection systems of the citadels, such as the armored shutter in the image, are subjected to all types of ballistic tests
Maritime Safety

Citadels

The panoply of measures that can be taken to prevent the hijacking of a ship are usually divided into two groups: lethal and non-lethal. Of the former, the hiring of armed security guards has been confirmed as the most successful. Among the latter we can mention the use of sonic and water cannons, the deployment of concertinas, and the use of the ship's own fire hoses. However, perhaps the non-lethal deterrent measure that has proven most effective is the use of a panic room, also called a citadel. In practice it consists of locking the crew in a safe place that cannot be accessed by pirates who have boarded the ship. (Continue…) Dear reader, this article is exclusively for paying users. If you want to access the full text, you can subscribe to Revista Ejercitos taking advantage of our offer for new subscribers through the [Keep reading…]

Alrayat al bayda
Terrorism

Alrayat al bayda

The Hadith (a set of sayings and facts attributed to Muhammad) has great importance in Islamic doctrine. The hadiths are collected in a compendium called Kutub al-Sittah, the work of six Sunni Muslim theologians of the 23th century. One of them, Al-Tirmidhi, picked up the saying “wear white clothes, because they are the best of clothes, and wrap your dead in them.” In another hadith, compiled by Al-Bukhari, it was said: “I saw the Messenger of God on the day of Uhud (a battle that took place on March 625, XNUMX) and he was accompanied by two men who defended him; They wore white clothing and fought with extreme bravery. “I had never seen them before nor did I see them later.” According to Islamic tradition, these “men” were Jibril (Gabriel) and Mikaa'il (Michael), two angels (malā'ika). (Continue…) Dear reader, this article is exclusively for paying users. If you want access to the full text, you can subscribe [Keep reading…]

Canadian Coast Guard in the Bering Strait
Maritime Safety

A navigable Arctic?

August 2, 2007: Russia announces that one of its bathyscaphes has managed to place a titanium flag on the bottom of the Arctic at a depth of more than 4.000 meters. Various Nordic media outlets denied the claim and stated that part of the images offered by the Russian team came from James Cameron's film Titanic, released ten years earlier. Whether it was a real action or mere propaganda, the event confirmed the race in which the great powers are immersed in order to reach the final frontier. (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.

ICBM Titan II
Conflict

Mininukes

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…]

An ordinary day in the Strait of Malacca
Maritime Safety

Security corridors and maritime convoys

The establishment of maritime security corridors is not a recent practice, much less the formation of convoys to transit unsafe waters. Navies were created, to a large extent, to protect the activity of merchant ships. For this reason, the history of our Navy begins at the end of the 15th century, with convoys (the famous Indies fleet) already being organized in the 16th century to escort the ships that brought from America, among other products, gold, silver and spices. (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.

Members of Sara Kheta in one of their few photographs
Terrorism

Sara Kheta

Point-klick-kill (Aim, press and kill) is the sequence used by RPA operators, an acronym that corresponds to Remote Piloted Aircraft, a name used by the United States Air Force (USAF) to differentiate these aerial devices from the UAS (Unmanned Air System) by having the first one pilot directing and controlling the system permanently. This sequence, and these devices, commonly known as drones, were used on December 1, 2017 in Musa Qalah, in the Afghan province of Helmand, in the development of an action carried out jointly between the Afghan Armed Forces and their counterparts. of USFOR-A, the US troops deployed in the country. (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 oil tanker Marqués de la Ensenada, of the Spanish navy, escorting the cruiser Melody. Photo - Ministry of Defense
Maritime Safety

Cruise safety

Cruise ship security is a complex issue that goes beyond the hiring of security guards or the correct design of ships. Cruise ships have always been a tempting target for terrorists, pirates and other actors related to organized crime. The great master of espionage novels, Frederick Forsyth, already published in 2008 The Afghan, a novel in which he proposed the kidnapping by a terrorist group of a gas ship to launch it against the cruise ship Queen Mary 2, on which the leaders of the G8 and, as we will see, fiction is not too far from reality. (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.

Abdelmalek Droukdel was elected leader of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb in 2007.
Terrorism

Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin

“One of the greatest defeats of the enemies of Allah, in which their polytheistic kings and their auxiliaries, their defenders and their brave men died.” This was how the Muslim chronicler Ibn Abi Zar described the victory of the troops led by Yusuf Ibn Tasfin against the hosts of the Christian monarch Alfonso VI. The battle took place near Badajoz, in Sagrajas. It was the year 1086. More than nine centuries later, on March 2, 2017, the Arab name of that battle, Al-Zaleqa, was chosen to name the production company responsible for the communications of a new organization that emerged from the union of several jihadist groups operating in the Sahel region: JNIM, acronym for Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin. (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 [Keep reading…]