International Journal of Naval History

El Poder Naval contra el Talebán y Al Queda

Afganistán – 2001

(Naval Supremacy arrayed against the Taleban and al Queda,

Afghanistan – 2001)

Rear Admiral Carlos E. Cal (Ret.) and Captain Juan A. Imperiale (Ret.)

Navy of Argentina

The IJNH presents this three part article from the Argentine Navy’s Boletín del Centro Naval with the permission of the publication and the authors. This view of the maritime aspect of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) by experts from an important non-NATO western hemisphere navy presents a remarkably comprehensive, unclassified, and interesting window on events usually seen through an American lens. During OEF  the Argentine Navy destroyer Sarandi became the first non-NATO Navy ship to deploy with a U.S. Navy battle group for Maritime Interdiction Operations (MIO). The three parts of this article appeared through the summer of 2004. 

Editor’s Note:

To preserve the formatting and the position of embedded diagrams, this article is presented here, in three parts, in pdf format. The photo galleries appear in the same convenient way.

IJNH was not able to secure the services of a translator to render this article into English in time for posting. However, we shall do so as soon as possible and, after the authors approve the translation, we shall make both versions available simultaneously. While the common language of this publication is English, we reach a global audience of naval historians and those interested in naval history writ large. Thus the opportunity to publish an article in Spanish was most welcome and in harmony with our mission.

Part One

Part Two

Part Three

Photo Gallery 1

Photo Gallery 2