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Chat GPT-4, OpenAI's artificial intelligence capable of generating content and interacting with the user, has already experienced significant development in the evolution of syntactic language, emulating human interaction more and more accurately. Source - Aries Workspace.

Chat GPT, artificial intelligence as a factor of change

23/03/2023

Chat GPT-4, OpenAI's artificial intelligence capable of generating content and interacting with the user, has experienced significant development in the evolution of syntactic language, emulating human interaction more and more accurately. The great advance represented by the development of this type of tools is, in addition to a risk, an opportunity. Ultimately, it is essential that we are aware that the different existing and upcoming artificial intelligences will pose important challenges for security, while at the same time they will be an important support in the implementation of defense. (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.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during his visit to the European Parliament on February 9, 2023, in which he took the opportunity to continue calling for greater military support for Ukraine. Source - European Parliament.

From buffer state to border state: the EU and military support for Ukraine

08/03/2023

In June 2022, the European Union granted candidate status to Ukraine. An important political declaration that was welcomed as such in kyiv. However, for a country at war, symbols are not enough. Accepting as a candidate for membership a neighboring country that is being invaded must also mean accepting more responsibility for the survival of that neighbor. Ukraine was a buffer state; It has become a border state. The EU should finally present a comprehensive plan to provide long-term military support to Ukraine, gradually taking over the main effort currently being carried out by the United States. After a year of war, the time for partial decisions (a dozen tanks now, another dozen in a month) has passed. (Continue…) Dear reader, this article is exclusively for paying users. If you want to access [Keep reading…]

The information domain: cyberspace seen from China

06/03/2023

The birth of a new cybernetic domain, known in the West as cyberspace and in China as the information domain, capable of interconnecting the physical with the intangible plane of computing and allowing asymmetric action by the different geopolitical powers, has meant new and important challenges for global security. However, not all states have understood in the same way the impact that the use of network technology can have on military strategic plans. China, as a revisionist power, has perfectly understood that achieving information dominance is crucial to its international interests. (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.

Main submarine cable projects in Spain. Source - Interxion.

Geopolitics of submarine communications cables I

20/02/2023

Underwater cables are the true arteries through which the most important raw material of our digital age flows: data. Economies and societies, especially the most advanced ones, depend on their security. The recent sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipeline, which has revealed the vulnerability of some of the main underwater infrastructures, forces us to think about their importance and the need to invest more resources in their protection. Also to reflect on the importance of their control and the responsibility that comes with controlling the waters under which they settle, something to which countries like Spain should be particularly sensitive. (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.

TacticMedAid app. Source - Supruniuk, 2022.

The Ukrainian war and mobile applications

16/02/2023

COTS technologies are undoubtedly among the main protagonists of the Ukrainian war. However, although great importance is generally given to elements such as commercial drones or some communications equipment, they are by no means the only commercial products susceptible to militarization. In the last year we have witnessed the constant development and reconversion of mobile applications, web-level tools and bots, by Ukrainian developers and programmers forced to become combatants. (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.

Europe in crisis

13/02/2023

The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has altered Europe's security order, such that many observers describe the situation as a turning point in the existence of the European Union. Brussels' triumphalist rhetoric about the brilliant and solid response to the war cannot hide the fact of the existence of deep divisions and weaknesses that alter the balance of power within the Union and leave us facing a Europe in crisis. (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 following link.

Chinese spy balloon. Source - TSchlitt-Photography.

The Chinese spy balloon and the military applications of aerostats

04/02/2023

In recent days, a Chinese spy balloon has been positioned, among other points, over the Malstrom base (Montana) where the United States deploys 150 ICBM missile silos. Although it was finally shot down, it managed to remain for hours on the perimeter of the aforementioned base. A fact that tells us that this incursion is not any kind of accident, but is deliberately directed at the core of the fundamental defensive system of any superpower: the nuclear deterrence arsenal. (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.

Cover: Two Barak-8 missile launchers and an Elta ELM 2084 radar system near al-Dhafra air base, south of Abu Dhabi (UAE), in September 2022. Source: Google Earth

Middle East: the drone war

27/01/2023

Drones: cheap and effective. This has been demonstrated in various operational scenarios and battlefields. Ukraine is just the latest, so far, to be added to the list. Initially designed for surveillance and image collection for Intelligence, they have later been armed to launch attacks. The good performance in the Ukrainian conflict of the Shahed-136 drones sent by Iran to Russia has been followed very closely, and not without some concern, throughout the Middle East. Region in which more than one country sees itself as the possible future, or present, target of Iranian UAVs, either directly or indirectly, through its allies in the area. All this has led to a deepening of new alliances, for example, between Israel and some monarchies of the Persian Gulf, which add to the [Keep reading…]

Shinzo Abe's Safety Diamond. Source: self made.

Japan's new National Security Strategy

11/01/2023

The former Empire of the Rising Sun, known in recent decades for its pacifism, has recently approved Japan's new National Security Strategy. A document that, together with the latest National Defense Strategy and Japan's Defense Reinforcement Program, tells us about an escalation in the region, motivated by the rise of the People's Republic of China and its growing assertiveness. With Japan's new National Defense Strategy, Tokyo puts aside the pacifist stance that it had been maintaining since the post-world war, opting for a more offensive one aimed at countering the growing threat posed by the People's Republic of China. (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 international order after the Ukrainian war

05/01/2023

One of the big questions raised by the ongoing war, and which for obvious reasons has not yet found an answer, is what the international order will be after the war in Ukraine. The maximum bet raised by Russia at the beginning of the invasion, in an order launched both against the rules-based international system that had prevailed since the Second World War and against the European security architecture in force until February 2022, has not turned out as expected. Kremlin waited. (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.