Guide to Selected Chilean Defense Websites

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29 April 2009 Open!Source!Center Media Aid

Guide to Selected Chilean Defense Websites The Chilean defense establishment consists of military and civilian institutions, many of which have their own websites featuring institutional services, news, and academic reports. Many academic contributions on defense issues are featured on these sites. Defense blogs and some related websites also carry unofficial information on Chilean military issues. A few sensitive defense institutions, including intelligence services and related industries, do not have their own websites. An appendix explains the Chilean defense structure.

Official Government Websites The following table describes the website contents of the main Chilean defense institutions.

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Ministerio de Defensa The National Defense This site is updated regularly Nacional Ministry website carries and includes communiques, Ministry of National Defense defense policy guidelines, articles, and documents, as organizational charts, and well as the National Defense links to its different Book online, which describes undersecretariats, institutions, the objectives and guidelines and services. of the Chilean National http://www.defensa.cl/ Defense.

Estado Mayor de la Defensa The site carries links to the Updated regularly, this Nacional multiple directorates that website carries the National National Defense Staff depend on the National Defense Objectives and Defense Staff. Means and is a good source of information for Armed Forces activities, such as military missions.

http://www.emdn.cl/

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Ejercito de Chile The site explains the Army This website is updated Chilean Army mission and objectives and regularly and carries a search carries all Army utility. It also has a blog that communiques besides links to requires a subscription. all military institutes.

http://www.ejercito.cl/

Armada de Chile This website carries the This site is updated regularly Chilean Navy Navy's mission, strategies, and carries a site map. It foreign policy, and national features a search utility and a development objectives, as limited English-language well as organizational charts, version. communiques, commanders' speeches, and links to exercises and missions.

http://www.armada.cl

Fuerza Aerea de Chile -- The website carries This website is updated FACH organizational charts, regularly and contains a site Chilean Air Force communiques, and map. commander's speeches, as well as reports on exercises and missions.

http://www.fach.cl/

Carabineros de Chile The Carabineros website This website is updated Carabineros carries institutional regularly and carries police information and security blotter and video news. notices for the public and gives access to several online services for finding missing people or stolen cars.

http://www.carabinerosdechile.cl/

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Policia de Investigaciones The PDI website carries This website is updated de Chile -- PDI internal institutional news regularly. unrelated to crime reports or Chilean Investigative Police statistics. This site has a link to Detective magazine online, which contains subjects of interest for investigators, as well as institutional issues, and interviews with officials.

http://www.investigaciones.cl/

Unofficial Military Websites The following websites are maintained by private citizens and do not carry official information. They appear to be exclusively for discussion of equipment and weapons.

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Pagina no Oficial del This website is maintained by This website describes Ejercito de Chile Francisco Cruz Mandiola, different Chilean Army Unofficial Chilean Army Page nicknamed "Isherman." weapons and equipment. This site is not updated regularly.

http://es.geocities.com/CHILEARMA S/PAGINAOFICIAL.html

Armada de Chile This website is an unofficial This website is not updated Chilean Navy Chilean Navy site, maintained regularly and describes by Francisco Cruz Mandiola, Chilean Navy ships. nicknamed "Isherman." http://es.geocities.com/armadadechil e/

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Armada de Chile This website is an unofficial This website is not updated Chilean Navy Chilean Navy site, maintained regularly and describes by Roberto Paredes. Chilean Navy ships.

http://www.ejercito-armada- extraoficial.cl/navy/armada.htm

Chilearmas This forum, administered by This forum is in Spanish Chile Arms Francisco Cruz Mandiola, and is updated and used nicknamed "Isherman," lists regularly by participants 529 subjects and more than from all over Latin 1,500 participants. America. http://chilearmas.mforos.com/

Official Defense Publications, Academic Centers The following is a list of official military publications, not all of which carry their contents online.

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VIGIA This Navy magazine publishes This website, which is updated internal news. regularly, carries some of the magazine's contents online, including the editorial.

http://www.revistavigia.cl

Revista de Marina This online Navy magazine This website is updated Navy Magazine carries articles, briefings, and regularly and has a search studies. utility.

http://www.revistamarina.cl/

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Enfoque Estrategico This website is self-described This website is updated Strategic Outlook as an online news bulletin for regularly and is a good source South American foreign of information on military affairs, security, and defense news from Latin America. developments.

http://www.enfoque- estrategico.com/quienes.htm

Facultad Latinoamericana FLACSO is a renowned think The website is updated de Ciencias Sociales -- tank committed to democracy regularly, has a search utility, FLACSO and governance. and contains defense-related articles written by experts and Latin American School for professionals. Social Sciences

http://www.flacso.cl

Revista Fuerzas Armadas y This magazine is published by This site is updated regularly Sociedad FLACSO and includes and has a search utility. Armed Forces and Society academic articles on the Magazine Chilean Armed Forces and those of other countries.

http://www.fasoc.cl/php/fasoc.php

Centro de Estudios CEE Chile belongs to the This website is updated Estrategicos -- CEE Chile ARCIS University. This is an regularly, has a site map, and Strategic Studies Center interdisciplinary academic includes defense and military institution that carries out articles. It also carries online research and offers political-military studies. postgraduate activities on http://www.cee-chile.org/index2.htm military security and strategic subjects.

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Seguridad y Defensa This website features press This website is updated Nacional de Chile articles and specialized regularly, has a search utility, Chilean Nacional Defense and commentaries. and publishes news on the Security Chilean Armed Forces as well as academic defense documents.

http://www.seguridadydefensa.cl/

Blog de la Universidad This blog carries a collection This blog is updated regularly. Andres Bello of recent Chilean media

Andres Bello University Blog articles and commentaries on military subjects.

http://blog.unab.cl/defensa/

Ejercito de Chile This centennial Army Chilean Army publication is used to disseminate officers' professional thoughts and to debate with civilian society. This magazine keeps an exchange agreement with the US magazine Military Review.

Not online

Armas y Servicios Armas y Servicios is a magazine that publishes Arms and Services articles on the following technical-tactical subjects: teaching, training, and knowledge to update the professional training of officers. It also publishes articles on the Army's modernization process.

Not online

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Alborada Alborada reports on family Dawn matters and insurance services for Army members. It is also a direct and permanent channel of exchange for professionals.

Not online

El Soldado El Soldado is a magazine for The Soldier the Army recruits across all of the military units in the country. It reports on activities and benefits for conscripts.

Not online

Boletín Informativo The Boletin Informativo is an internal bi-monthly magazine News Bulletin reporting on facts and news concerning the professional activities of the different Army units.

Not online

Most Important Military Academies Chile's most important military academies, which carry out military research projects and advise the Armed Forces Staff as well as the defense minister, have websites containing articles written by experts and professionals. This OSC product is based exclusively on the content and behavior of selected media and has not been coordinated with other US Government components.

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Academia Nacional de ANEPE is an academy that The website carries regular Estudios Politicos y carries out research, offers academic links and opinion Estrategicos -- ANEPE training, and advises the documents on strategic Armed Forces staff. It designs defense. Nacional Academy of Political guidelines for the defense and Strategic Studies community and the private This site includes a site map sector and grants graduate and and has not been updated since postgraduate degrees in the January 2009. fields of intelligence, security, and defense.

http://www.anepe.cl

Centro de Estudios e CESIM conducts investigation The website carries brief Investigaciones -- CESIM and postgraduate activities in reports on CESIM seminars as military sciences, engineering, well as the Chilean military Military Studies and Research and technology for civilian and defense magazine online Center and military engineers. Escenarios Actuales. This site Research fields include also carries the institution's national defense and military library catalog online. strategy, Armed Forces and society, military engineering, This site has a site map, a and technological sciences. limited English-language version, and is updated http://www.cesim.cl/ regularly.

Academia de Guerra del The ACAGUE trains staff, The website is updated Ejercito de Chile -- officers, and professors in regularly and includes ACAGUE military science and academic documents and engineering. requires a subscription. Chilean Army War Academy This website includes a link to the Tactical Operational Training Center (CEOTAC), which uses different kinds of simulating systems.

http://www.acague.cl

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Academia Politecnica Acapomil trains Army The Acapomil website updates Militar -- Acapomil engineers, carries out research, regularly and carries regular and grants undergraduate, academic information for Military Polytechnic Academy graduate, and PhD degrees. students.

http://www.acapomil.cl/

Military Geographic Services The following websites include official Chilean map services many of which are free online offering all kinds of useful economic, territorial, demographic, and many other kinds of data.

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Sistema Nacional de The SNIT is a government The SNIT website is updated Coordinacion de agency that centralizes and regularly and includes online Informacion Territorial -- coordinates all the geospatial maps and a metadata catalog SNIT data (statistics, images, charts, with Chilean territorial etc.) provided by 15 different information, such as maps and National Territorial government institutions. statistics. Information Coordination System

http://www.snit.cl

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Instituto Gegrafico Militar -- The IGM is the official The IGM is the point of IGM Chilean authority for drafting contact for purchasing official Chilean maps, charts, and Chilean geographical maps. Military Geographical geographic data, including Institute geodesic, topographic, and This site is updated regularly. photogrammetric services.

http://www.igm.cl/

Geoportal Geoportal carries maps from Geoportal provides a variety the following government of maps of Chile that can be agencies: National System of viewed online through a Territorial Information software application. (SNIT), Military Geographic http://www.geoportal.cl Insitute (IGM), and Chilean This site has a site map and an Sea and River Water English-language version. Its Resources Services (SHOA). contents and maps are regularly updated.

Servicio Aerofotogrametrico The SAF is the point of This site is updated regularly. de la Fuerza Aerea de Chile contact for the purchase of -- SAF official Chilean Air Force photogrammetric services. Chilean Air Force Air Photogrammetric Service

http://www.saf.cl

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Servicio Hidrografico y SHOA provides technical The site is updated regularly Oceanografico de la Amrada information and assistance for and provides thorough nautical de Chile -- SHOA navigation in Chilean rivers, and oceanographic data, lakes, and oceans. It also charts, and services, many of Chilean Navy Hydrographic provides assistance with the which are free online. and Oceanographic Service following: hydrographic surveys, nautical cartography, It includes a link to the nautical charts, oceanography, Chilean National planning and coordination of Oceanographic Data Center national oceanographic (CENDOC) which contains activities related to physical- hydrographic and chemical research, tides, oceanographic databases. currents and tidal waves,

http://www.shoa.cl nautical geography, navigation, astronomy, signal time, and aerial photogrammetry applied to nautical charts.

Sistema Integrado de SIIT, which belongs to the This website is updated Informacion Territorial -- Chilean Library of Congress, regularly and allows for the SIIT provides official demographic, online "creation and social, economic, and election combination of more than Integrated Territorial Data data and statistics. 1,000 permutations related to System statistics, maps, and other data."

http://www.bcn.cl/siit/

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Appendix The Chilean defense system is organized under the Ministry of Defense, which has authority over the Armed Forces and forces of order. It includes advisory entities such as the National Defense Staff (EMDN), the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCJ), and the Superior Council of National Defense (Consudena).

www.defensa.cl

! Consudena is made up of the minister of foreign affairs and the minister of finance, as well as the commanders of the Armed Forces. To view a complete description of the Chilean Defense Ministry, double-click on the following icon:

! The Carabineros and Intelligence Police are subject to the Interior Ministry, which also coordinates all military intelligence services through the National Intelligence Agency (ANI).

! In addition, each Armed Forces branch has its own administrative secretariat, which manages military social security, salary, and similar issues, with its own website (not included in this paper).

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