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ISSN: 1852- 8619 CIVIL DEFENSE The Armed Forces and Civil Defense By Miguel Ángel Santiago 04 INTERNATIONAL LAW CYBERNETics STRATEGY THE USE OF DRONES THE CYBERNETIC THREat THE USE OF THE NATO 12 IN ARMED CONFLICTS 19 TO THE SECURITY anD 40 AIR POWER IN KOSOVO By Gustavo H. Krasñansky DEFENSE OF BRAZIL By Franco Gabriel Paglione y María Elena Rossi By Augusto Cesar Amaral ESCUELA SUPERIOR DE GUERRA CONJUNTA DE LAS FUERZAS ARMADAS DE LA REPÚBLICA ARGENTINA A CONJUNT RR A E DE U L G A E S D F R U O E I R R Z E A P S U A S R A M L A E D U OUR ICON A C S S E Our icon is the famous Rubik’s cube decorated with the colours of the Argentine flag and the coat of arms that identifies the Estado Mayor Conjunto de las Fuerzas Armadas Argentinas. We have elected this ingenious mechanism for our STAFF journal as it is the visual representation of the complex joint actions. The image shows the challenge to combine in a harmonic way the elements that are part of the DIRECTOR Armed Forces to achieve an efficient use of military General Federico Sidders instruments. The proper use of the forces allows to set, at the DEPUTY DIRECTOR same level, the coat of arms of the Estado Mayor Francisco José Meglia Conjunto which implies a mental process to combine variables in a very complex setting. EDITORIAL BOARD In order to be successful as to the situation Jorge Mazorra Mariño raised, it is necessary to have a broad mindset that Marcelo Eduardo Giunta allows to have a general perception of the target to Ricardo Mario Pavicic be achieved; this defines our “joint perspective”. Gustavo Manuel Salvadores Daniel Oscar Nuñez REFEREED BOARD Dr. Antonio Adrián Arciénaga Morales Dr. Julio Horacio Rubé Dr. Paulo Botta Colonel Gabriel Camilli General Evergisto de Vergara Master Pablo Bereciartua Master Enrique Clavier Bachelor Susana Carranza Bachelor Adolfo Koutoudjian EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT SECRETARY Pedro Jofré TRANSLATION Mariana Ríos Hudson EDITOR Y PROPIETARIO Escuela Superior de Guerra Conjunta de las Fuerzas Armadas Av. Luis María Campos 480 2° piso C1426BOP, CABA N° de ejemplar: 10. Año 6. Editorial Visión Conjunta. 2014 Registro DNDA: 5144596 / ISSN: 1852- 8619 Visión Conjunta is a publication owned by the Escuela Superior de Guerra Conjunta de las Fuerzas Armadas of the Argentine Republic. Opinions of the author of each article published in this magazine do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the magazine directors. Total or partial reproduction of articles is authorized provided author and source are mentioned. All rights reserved. VISIÓN CONJUNTA NÚMERO 10 LIST OF CONTENTS MESSAGE FROM Cybernetics 02 THE DIRECTOR THE CYBERNETIC THREAT Homage 19 TO THE SECURITY AND DEFENSE OF BRAZIL MALVINAS By Augusto Cesal Amaral 03 ACHIEVEMENTS COVER ARTICLE Law ENVIRONMENT PRESERVATION Civil Defense 23 By Fernando A. Bartrons THE ARMED FORCES Defense 04 AND CIVIL DEFENSE By Miguel Angel Santiago LAW ON NATIONAL MOBILIZATION 34 By Eduardo Miguel Tourné Strategy THE USE OF THE NATO 40 AIR POWER IN KOSOVO By Franco Gabriel Paglione International Law THE USE OF DRONES 12 IN ARMED CONFLICTS By Gustavo H. Krasñansky and María Elena Rossi MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR General Federico Sidders t has been six years since our first publication of the Resources have turned into actions and this allowed us to journal “Visión Conjunta”. We would like to thank get to essential stages for the institutional life of our College those who have contributed and encouraged us to set with the purpose of contributing to our educational project. I a relationship with our readers. Publishing the work Resources used for infrastructure, one of the of professors, students and collaborators allows us to indicators of academic welfare, have allowed us to open an share knowledge and professional experience with the amphitheater that can accommodate forty people and has community. technological equipment that makes it flexible. The Escuela Superior de Guerra Conjunta (Joint Forces With regard to our research area, we have started Staff College) is an opportunity for the integration of the an academic work related to Civil Protection, the tile of military instrument of the Nation from a level of thought which is “Support to Emergencies, Planning and Support that has to be translated into the daily activities of the to Civil Protection Operations”. These projects have a members of this team that is made up of men and women great influence on society at the moment of transferring who make contributions according to their personal and knowledge. professional experience. As part of our identity building we will soon start a Having different origins is an enriching experience. process for having permanent professors with the purpose Specificity is an added value of which we have to make of assuring quality and stability of our faculty. the most to promote creative, broad, respectful and With the purpose of promoting regional integration, understandable thinking in different places. This is why we had officers from the Republic of Brazil, who are the the success of Joint Military Action is supported by the first foreign students and are taking the Specialization in strength of the specific forces. Operational Strategy and Joint Military Planning. We are Our challenge is to reach better education for our open to receive and share their professional experience as students and to provide them with tools to find the right we have been doing with students from other countries in solution for greatly dynamic situations that they will face the Master’s Degree. during their career. In May, we published our third book, Los Escritos In this sense, on February 14, 2014, the Ministry of Académicos en la Formación Militar, a book written by Education issued Resolution No. 112/14, through which professors of our Institution. The purpose of this book the Master’s Degree in Joint Strategy and Strategic Level is to provide students with a tool to prepare their final Conduction was given temporary official validity at assignments and theses. national level. Moreover, we have launched the website of our College Students will be granted this degree once they have (www.esgcffaa.mil.ar), which has been designed according finished their courses and passed their final assignment. to the provisions of Law 26653 of information accessibility In April, we made a presentation to the National on websites. In this website, you will be able to find general Evaluation and Accreditation Board (CONEAU, in its information as well as this journal and other publications. Spanish acronym) to give validity to the Master’s Degree In June, the Graduates Center started carrying out its and the Specialization in Operational Strategy and Joint activities and its purpose is to be in contact with our former Military Planning. This showed our teamwork spirit students who will be able to become part of our College at the different levels of our Institution. The Instituto community through our website. Universitario del Ejército (Army College), to which we are Our purpose is to improve our educational proposal related for the master’s degree courses, has recently visited for which the ideas and suggestions of our readers are an us thus contributing to our presentation to the CONEAU. important element of our communication. 2 VISIÓN CONJUNTA NÚMERO 10 MALVINAS ACHIEVEMENTS Speech made by Colonel (Malvinas Veteran) Gustavo Manuel Salvadores during the ceremony held on April 2, 2014 for the 32nd anniversary of the Malvinas conflict. hirty- two years ago, a group of Argentine men wearing Although there were soldiers who had been recently the uniform of our Motherland made it possible for a incorporated and did not have the experience of the 1962 dream of the Argentine people of fighting for territorial class, they fought like the best soldiers. They killed, died T integration, landed on Malvinas ground to recover and came back to their land with no stridency, show but the Malvinas Island after almost 150 years of British with pride, sacrifice, memories and lack of some things. misappropriation. We have also commanded Officers and Petty Officers. The law of the sea establishes as common law that any They were simple men with virtues and defects. Men who territory taken for such a period of time belongs to those decided to pursue the career of arms after we felt an interior who dominate it. This is how after a short planning, the call to do so. Men who love their motherland and citizens. Rosario Operation was carried out in order to recover them We are interested in history and the integrity of our in the name of Argentine pride. territory. We respect and practice its tradition, culture and In spite of the great technological differences that faith in our elder ones. We worship God and we think that existed between Argentina and Great Britain as the latter family is the ground for natural social order so we respect it was supported by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and make it be respected. (NATO) and the United States, courage, bravery and heroic Officers and Petty Officers are men of action, we are actions prevailed in the members of the Argentine Armed educated and trained for adversity, but in Malvinas there Forces as it occurred during the Liberation Campaigns at were no breaks to restore our energies. We had to recover, the beginning of the 19th century. promote, help and emphasize the positive aspects of each It is really sad to hear different versions that try to set situation, to gather our soldiers, permanently encourage aside the Malvinas element from the events that took place them, support them emotionally, to be an example for by saying that soldiers who fought were too young for war them, teachers and leaders.

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