U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) recently demonstrated the capability to replenish U.S. Navy ballistic missile submarines operating at sea using different types of aircraft to deliver supplies. During the months of July and August 2022, U.S. Navy MH-60R Seahawk helicopters, a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III cargo aircraft, and U.S. [ … ]
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Power and influence: Its applications in the military organizations of the brazilian army
1 INTRODUCTION The dynamics and complexity of human interaction are increasingly being studied in order to achieve results and effectiveness in actions. However, leaders from all sectors of society face difficulties in overcoming these challenges in a world in constant transformation, where people are increasingly more distant and at the [ … ]
China’s Use of Soft Power in Support of its Strategic Engagement in Latin America
Introduction The People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) expanding engagement and presence in Latin America and the Caribbean has captured the attention of political and business leaders and the people of the region, as well as the United States. Although the PRC’s engagement and use of “soft power” has political, cultural, [ … ]
China’s Worrying Engagement with Latin America and the Caribbean
China is now a preferred lender across Latin America and the Caribbean. It hosts two international development banks — the Beijing-led Asian Infrastructure Development Bank (AIIB) and the New Development Bank (NDB) in Shanghai —that are both expanding their footprint across the region, TIME Magazine reported. “Infrastructure development has shrunk [ … ]
Undersea Cable Wars: Competition for control of networks brings long-term security risks to the surface
A labyrinth of more than 1.3 million kilometers of fiber-optic cables anchored to the sea floor carries about 95% of telephone and internet communications around the world every day, moving massive amounts of data every second. Everything from financial transactions to military orders passes along this underwater web of more [ … ]
Chilean Police Seizes Synthetic Drugs with Netherlands Support
Chile’s Investigative Police (PDI) dismantled a transnational gang dedicated to ecstasy trafficking, carrying out the largest seizure of this narcotic in South America. The seizure was the result of a concertedeffort with the Netherlands Police, with surveillance that began in the port of Rotterdam and continued all the way to [ … ]
Perry Center Strengthens Regional Collaboration among Digital Domain Defenders
On July 22, the William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies concluded its 2022 cyber policy course, Cybersecurity Policy in the Americas: Challenges for Policy-Strategic Analysis, led by Dr. Boris Saavedra. The course bolsters whole-of-hemisphere cybersecurity efforts by empowering and connecting regional partners who seek to strengthen cybersecurity and [ … ]
US Sanctions Ortega-Murillo Regime’s Mining Company
The United States sanctioned state-owned Nicaraguan mining company ENIMINAS and its board president for their growing ties with Russia. The June 17 executive order of the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) bars any dealings by U.S. assets with the company and the president of [ … ]
Iran Seeks to Increase Its Influence in Latin America, Experts Warn
Experts warn that Iran is seeking to expand its influence in Latin America with illicit activities, disinformation, hate speech, and even maybe new terrorist attacks. A warning sign occurred in June, when a 747 cargo plane registered to the Venezuelan airline Emtrasur was detained at Ezeiza Airport in Buenos Aires. [ … ]
US Concerned Over China and Russia’s Influence in Latin America
Washington is keeping the growing influence of China and Russia in Latin America in its sights due to the worrying consequences that this expansion could have in terms of instability, insecurity, and weakening of democratic institutions. Such is what U.S. Army General Laura J. Richardson, commander of U.S. Southern Command, [ … ]
Colombia-US, 200 Years of Unbreakable Ties
Colombia and the United States are celebrating 200 years of diplomatic relations. The two countries established relations on June 19, 1822, when U.S. President James Monroe officially received Manuel de Trujillo y Torres as Colombia’s first chargé d’affaires in the United States. Since then, both countries have become strategic allies [ … ]
China’s Digital Advance in Latin America
This article has been initially published in the Revista Seguridad y Poder Terrestre (Vol. 1 N.º 1 [2022]: July – September) of the Peruvian Army Center for Strategic Studies (CEEEP)https://ceeep.mil.pe/2022/06/30/chinas-digital-advance-in-latin-america/?lang=enDOI: https://doi.org/10.56221/spt.v1i1.5 Abstract This work examines activities by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and its companies in digital technologies and associated economic sectors in Latin America, [ … ]