CONTENTS
INTERNATIONAL ANALYSIS
30 COVID-19 and irregular migration
The economic crisis, movement restrictions and precarious
health conditions further complicate the situation of those who
flee their homes in search of a better life.
INTERNATIONAL ANALYSIS
40 Outer space as a strategic
Colonel José Luis Calvo Albero writes about the
military significance of this new scenario.
ARCHIVES
48 Churchill
and the
Cuban war
The former British Prime Minister
was awarded with the Cross of
the Order of Military Merit with
Red Ribbon for his bravery after
a brief period in the Spanish
Army during the Cuban War of
Independence.
MISSIONS
34 Deterrence on the eastern flank
The Spanish contingent as part of NATO’s Enhanced Forward
Presence mission in Latvia.
domain
HISTORY
44 Francisco Xavier Balmis
Operation Balmis against COVID-19 commemorates the man who
headed the first humanitarian mission in history.
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