By Guillermo Martín Caviasca, Buenos Aires, Argentina In this interview with the Malvinas war veteran and Chief of Intelligence of the Argentine Navy from 2011 to 2015, Rear Admiral Guillermo Tomé, we look at the different stages of Argentine defense in the last 40 years until reaching the present day. You occupied a privileged position to observe the geopolitical, defense ...
The humanity has left behind another tough year with many significant challenges. At the end of 2023 Palestinians raised the flag of revolt of oppressed nations against the oppressor world. Throughout the year, Russia’s achievements in Ukraine, led deep divisions on the West. France’s expulsion from Africa, the resolution of hitches in Karabakh, Syria’s return to the Arab League, the ...
The United States had entered the World War I with the pressures and demands of the Great Britain, on 6th April 1917 one month after the government change in Russia on March 3rd 1917. Russia withdrew from the war. The German advance in Europe was brought to a halt by the United States’ involvement in the war. At this point, ...
Navtex wars are taking place in the Eastern Mediterranean. After Turkey announced the territory that it would do the drilling, Athens stated that they would not allow it by beginning a counter-Navtex. In response, Turkey announced they would “enter the field with missiles!” Everything started with Turkey’s entry into NATO. After attaining NATO membership in 1952, the Turkish Navy was ...
Today, after 108 years, Turkey is back in Libya. Despite the COVID 19 outbreak, Turkish warships have been flying their flags along Libya’s coast uninterrupted for the past four months. Since Turkey signed an MoU with Libya on November 27, 2019 to delimit the southwest portion of its Blue Homeland maritime border, the roughly 1000-mile zone between Marmaris/ Aksaz naval ...
Admiral Touraj Hassani, Deputy of the Iranian Navy, announced a plan to send a fleet of warships to the Atlantic Ocean by March 2019. What does Iran actually hope to accomplish with this provocative move? Shortly before the Islamic Revolution in 1979, the Shah bought three destroyers from the US to strengthen Iran’s Navy. Although the bill for the warships ...