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Image taken during the BALTOPS 23 exercise, the most important of those that take place in the Baltic. Source - US Navy.

Maritime security in the Baltic

26/06/2023

During these last years, the profound changes that the international order is experiencing have once again focused special attention on maritime power, as one of the main elements of the competition between great powers. Maritime security, even though it has been neglected in certain periods, has always been fundamental for European countries given the geographical configuration of our continent, little more than an appendix of the great Eurasian mass surrounded by seas and oceans. Europe is surrounded (clockwise) by the Arctic, the Baltic, the Black Sea, the Mediterranean, the Atlantic and the North Sea. All of them are fundamental for the security of the continent, given that each of them has different geopolitical conditions and a different security panorama. Therefore, when considering the maritime-naval dimension of European security, it is appropriate [Keep reading…]

Dutch CV90 combat vehicles. Source - Ministry of Defense of the Netherlands.

Let's recover the spirit of PESCO!

08/06/2023

Five years after the launch of PESCO, and five waves later, it is the ideal time to consider whether the tool that we know in May 2023 corresponds to the one that its designers had in mind. More important than the above is the following question: is it the PESCO we want? (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.

Group image at the G7 Summit held in Hiroshima, Japan. Source - Government of Japan.

Brief conclusions on the G7 summit in Hiroshima

02/06/2023

A few days ago the G7 summit was held in Hiroshima, Japan. The choice of the Japanese city was not random, since its symbolism gave extra moral authority to an event in which the nuclear issue was very present. Criticized by the Russian Federation as a meeting organized against this country, during its three-day duration references were also made to the People's Republic of China, while it was attended - for the first time - by the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky. . The war in Ukraine was not, however, the only topic discussed at a summit in which issues such as climate change or energy or food security were discussed. (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 [Keep reading…]

The construction of a common foreign and security policy in Europe: Why is it so problematic?

01/06/2023

The European Union has been trying for decades to provide itself with a common foreign and security policy in accordance with its economic and demographic weight. They have been, in most cases and to the misfortune of its almost 450 million inhabitants, a succession of failures, in which at each step the level of ambition was lower. Despite this, progress has been made, especially since the Russian Federation launched an invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, which has forced the Twenty-Seven to give new impetus to everything related to Defense. However, there are many factors, some of them very profound, that have so far prevented small steps from culminating in a true common defense. This book aims to identify them, leaving aside the usual "wishful thinking", prevailing among the elites who run Europe from the Brussels bubble, so that, [Keep reading…]

Quantum cryptography

15/05/2023

The leaps and bounds of technological development that human beings have experienced in recent decades at the hands of engineering and computing have represented a major innovation with respect to the societies that have preceded us, allowing the emergence of important processes of social modernization, whose greatest exponent currently seems to lie in the evolution of artificial intelligence. However, despite the immediacy and contemporaneousness that these technological advances represent for a generation of developers and digital natives, they will soon be eclipsed by the future of a new progress with a name and surname: quantum processing. This, in turn, will require the development of quantum cryptography solutions that keep files and data, both public and private, safe. An aspect in which Spain, far from being a backward nation, is located in an enviable position facing the future. The [Keep reading…]

Demonstration in response to the 17-A attacks. Source - Barcelona City Council.

Design of strategic communication in jihadist attacks: the case of 17-A

08/05/2023

If communication is a fundamental element of the broad phenomenon of jihadist terrorism, it must also be a fundamental element of the response in anti-terrorist policy. Given that current jihadist organizations have developed a high level of professionalization in their propaganda, not seen before, the planning of strategic communication against terrorism and crisis management in jihadist attacks is becoming more and more important. Through the experience of the attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils in 2017, we will analyze what the implementation, both preventive and reactive, of this specific area of political and institutional communication in the face of jihadism is like. (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.

Evacuation of Spanish citizens from the Sudanese capital carried out by members of the Armed Forces. Source - Ministry of Defense.

Crisis in Sudan

04/05/2023

On April 15, violence breaks out in the streets of the Sudanese capital, Khartoum. The growing tension accumulated during the previous months between the two generals in command of the African country leads to combats that, as the days go by, spread throughout Sudan. On the one hand, the number 1 of the military government, the general of the Sudanese Armed Forces Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and, on the other, the top leader of the powerful Rapid Support Forces militia, also general Mohamed Hamda Dagalo “Hemeti” . A confrontation with the potential to become a regional conflict with intervention in addition to global powers, because both generals have great external support. (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.

Flag of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Source - Shutterstock.

Democratic Republic of the Congo: Swords raised

27/04/2023

A new international military stabilization force begins its deployment in the troubled east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Led by the regional power, Kenya, and sponsored by the peace talks in Nairobi and Luanda, under the protection of the African Union, troops from various countries are pursuing on the ground several rebel groups causing a rise in violence in that country. area in recent months. But there are many vectors of conflict that interact in Congolese territory, some already historic. And all this hinders the chances of success of the stabilization mission. At the moment, the local population receives the foreign soldiers oscillating between skepticism and hostility. (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.

Image of the members of the insurgent group "La Guarida del León" published by the group itself on social networks, where they appear very active. Source - Telegram.

The Lion's Den: the new terrorist insurgency in Nablus

20/04/2023

The spiral of violence in the West Bank has a new Palestinian armed actor: The Lion's Den. Despite having only a few dozen militants at the moment, this new terrorist group – originating in Nablus – has become a great destabilizer of the Palestinian region. Furthermore, clashes against Israeli forces take place in the northern West Bank while The Lion's Den collaborates with terrorist organizations such as Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas to establish itself as a belligerent actor in the longest open conflict in history. For its part, the Israel Defense Forces have intensified their attacks, arrests and anti-terrorist operations against the new Nablus group; having finished off its leader in just a few months and weakened the members of the West Bank group. Are we facing a campaign of terror in Palestine or a passing threat? (Continues…) Dear reader, this article is exclusive for users [Keep reading…]

CLTC-CONAE-NEUQUEN station installed by the People's Republic of China in the territory of Argentina. Facilities like this are an integral part of China's strategy in Latin America. Source - Government of Argentina.

Latin America in Chinese space strategy

06/04/2023

The People's Republic of China has become, in the space of a few years, a leading actor in Space, with programs in many cases comparable to those of the United States and much more ambitious than those of Russia or Europe. In order to pursue their ambitions, Beijing knows that they need a network of radar stations on a global scale, as well as regional alliances that will allow them to open new markets in what is expected to be a juicy satellite launch business. That is why China is looking in Latin America not only for a place to install new tracking antennas, but also for clients that will help make its enormous investments profitable. (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.