Colombia remains one of the most troubled countries in South America. The continued export of drugs coupled with a significant insurgent threat and increased violence against civilians, signals a crisis capable of disrupting the entire region....
This study investigates the actions of U.S. military personnel conducting the counter-drug mission in Bolivia in accordance with the Bolivian/U.S. Counter-Drug Strategy. The analysis determines if U.S. personnel, in executing their mission, are...
This monograph tells the narrative of the FARC in Colombia from the perspective of the counterinsurgent and presents a summary of the evolution of the FARC. The Colombian government has achieved recent success against the FARC after more than forty...
Though the US is physically located in the Western Hemisphere, for most of its history, policy toward the South American countries that share this region has taken a distant second to Euro-centric issues. One of the few areas of concern that has...
Governments attempting to counter insurgent threats often lack the authority, influence, and control to counter these threats, creating what some have described as 'ungoverned' spaces. A number of governments seek alliances with non-state armed...
This thesis analyzes the counterinsurgency efforts of the second Batista regime of Cuba, 1952-1958, using the “Sword Model,” developed by Max G. Manwaring and John T. Fishel. The “Sword Model” is a paradigm developed to predict the...
El Salvador is coming to the end of a civil war that cost more than 80,000 lives. This thesis surveys the factors which led to this war and, soon thereafter, to United States involvement. The historical, economic, social, and political development...
Determining the causes of insurgency is important to military studies and social sciences because of the pervasiveness of insurgency and its impact on regional stability and governmental legitimacy. The moderating influences of the Cold War are...
This monograph examines the US military involvement in the "drug war" since l989, as well as some of the issues that the military officer may have to deal with while conducting counterdrug operations in Peru. In 1989, the Secretary of Defense...
The preponderance of literature and scholarly debate on counterinsurgency (COIN) focuses on the strategic or operational approach: leader-focused; large group-focused; special operations; conventional operations; enemy centric; and the latest,...
This book contains black and white photographs for the military school of Chile. Photos include soldiers, directors, the types of uniforms, entertainment areas, living quarters, restrooms, horse arena, shooting range, obstacle course for infantry,...
The terrorist groups in Colombia have applied Mao’s theory of protracted people’s war, seeking to use all available means of struggle to achieve their revolutionary goals by counteracting government policy. One way that Fuerzas Armadas...
While it is generally accepted that military intelligence plays a key role in low intensity conflict (LIC), there is not a broad understanding as to how intelligence and electronic warfare (IEW) systems are organized and employed nor how IEW...
Reagindo à democracia boliviana: evitando os erros da antiga política norte-americana em Cuba. Waltraud Queiser Morales, Ph.D.; Por mais de 50 anos, a política do governo dos Estados Unidos tem sido a de promover a democracia na América Latina....
Desde el año 2001 hasta el presente se han asignado los artículos en nuestro índice anual a la materia o materias más adecuadas sin vincularlos con la materia o materias de los años anteriores. Debido al hecho de que aun no hemos actualizado...
Ahora que nos vamos de Irak, ¿qué aprendimos? Coronel Graig A. Collier, Ejército de EUA; El 19 de agosto de 2010, la última unidad de combate -- 4a Brigada Stryker de la 2a División de Infantería -- salió de Irak cuando la Operación Iraqi...
Las operaciones cívico-militares: un principio fundamental de los asuntos civiles en el mundo real. Mayor Stephen K. Goto, Reserva del Ejército de EE .UU.
El ejército y las operaciones cívico-militares en el Siglo XXI....
Tiempo de retrospectiva. LT COL Daniel Arancibia Clavel, Ejército de Chile
De las playas de Normandía al bolsón de aliase-Argentan: evaluación de la planificación de los Aliados en 1944. Russell F. WeigleyVietnam: cómo era en...