The 3 best books by Pedro Baños

We jump from the fiction literature that this blog usually occupies to reach another type of literature about the world in which we live. Because read the colonel Pedro Banos is to dwell on the origins and consequences of globalization, in interest games; in impossible balances; in fake news; in population control..., all like a gloomy shadow that points to a segmented treatment of individuals, openly exposed to the will of the powerful.

And, as you see, the matter ends up sounding even more fictional than any novel. It is what we have to live, days with a point orwellian, perhaps even better developed in its dystopian notion, mired in self-deception, in firm confidence in an unreal democracy. The worst of all is that the trompe l'oeil of our world rises like the lesser evil, the necessary construct of this age.

Curiously, a crisis as serious as Covid-19 was better tackled in a country like China where authoritarianism is capable of unifying towards the common good by sacrificing the individual. On this other side of the world, such obvious control could not be exercised in a health crisis that we hope will one day subside. And yet, it also applies this renunciation of the individual for the common good, only in a more hidden way and in less obvious aspects of universal rights falsified in everyday life. Do we choose? The obvious dictatorship or the disguised submission.

Top 3 recommended books by Pedro Baños

This is how the world is ruled

The cold war was never completely over, it only mutated towards a more general projection of power of all against all (from the commercial to the geopolitical). But war at the end of the day. And in wars there are casualties and collateral damage. Except that in any war conflict in use, certain rules are respected. leyes, in the current general conflicts there seems to be no law beyond a diplomacy that in its forms seems to institutionalize the conflict in a more friendly way. Alliances, manipulation, rivalry, psychological warfare... Better than Game of Thrones: the keys to global geostrategy.

For some years now, due to the current complex situation, the science of geopolitics has been acquiring an importance that it had somewhat lost after the Second World War. How are the countries related? What power strategies do they use?

Through numerous examples, we will see that there are a series of classic strategies, all with a background of hypocrisy and taking advantage of the weaknesses of others, which have prevailed over time. We will also discover that throughout history a series of geopolitical mistakes have been made and they continue to be repeated. Because, although today the rules have changed, there are unshakable foundations in this field.

Colonel and expert strategist Pedro Baños takes us into the unknowns of these dominance games between countries and reveals the keys and tricks of world power, which are neither more nor less than effective universal rules to achieve our objectives by manipulating the adversary.

This is how the world is ruled

The Mental Domain: The Geopolitics of the Mind

In the manner of a Asimov Today, Pedro Baños delves into the most human value and on which the darkest dystopias are projected: intelligence.

With his recognized amenity and lucidity, Pedro Baños addresses in The mental domain a disturbing future ―which, in many ways, is already fully current― from multiple perspectives: cultural and psychological manipulation, the (de) formation of personal wills, control of information and also the possibilities that open up with evolution of neurotechnologies or artificial intelligence in all fields, including the military.

In addition to combining a rich dissemination with a wealth of updated information, this work is presented as a clear warning to sailors, because it is, in the words of the author himself, “to open our eyes to be alert.

Only if we know what this perfect form of mental domination consists of and how to achieve it, will we be able to offer some resistance to it and preserve our freedoms. ' So let's hold on to that possibility because all of us - children, adolescents and adults - still have time to detoxify, to disengage from the mental domain, using the most powerful weapon at our disposal: think for ourselves.

The mental domain. The geopolitics of the mind

World Dominion: Elements of Power and Geopolitical Keys

If in his first book, This is how the world is ruled, Pedro Baños explained how, for what and with what strategies the powerful tried, in a hard struggle between them, to control countries and people, in this new work he takes a step towards the full democratization of geostrategy and details which are the instruments that are used. they employ to achieve that planetary dominance.

Military force, economic capacity, diplomacy, intelligence services, natural resources, knowledge and strategic communication, among others, are shown as the tools used by the great powers to impose their will and control. Demographics and technology also figure on the scale to measure the strength of nations, factors that will change the international scene in the coming years. From this perspective, we can glimpse the disturbing hypothesis of a change in the geopolitical paradigm, a premise that ends up completing the tentacles that make up power.

In this work written with clarity and precision, Pedro Baños offers us a surprising image of the elements with which world domination is exercised, an approach that is not exempt, as happened in the previous book, of intellectual and historical rigor. Accompanied by numerous illustrations to easily visualize references and data, World dominance complements This is how the world is ruled and it once again delights those who want to know how international power really works and how that reality is hidden from us citizens.

World Dominion: Elements of Power and Geopolitical Keys

Other recommended books by Pedro Baños

world crossroads

Today more than ever we see a world on the tightrope. The geopolitical balances threaten anxiety and ruin. There could be solutions, the question is whether there could be a kind of consciousness of civilization that would free us from our own drift, an involution disguised as prosperity that is less and less sustained...

We have fully entered the digital age, a true industrial, economic and social revolution whose effects we are beginning to glimpse. A world of miraculous biotechnological advances and governed by artificial intelligence in which jobs will be novel but insufficient. The increasingly aging population will occupy crowded cities in which loneliness will be the norm.

All of this in an increasingly polarized society and while we suffer the consequences of an unstoppable climate crisis and massive migratory movements. The fight between the great powers to control this new reality will intensify and it will be necessary to look for imaginative and efficient solutions.

world crossroads
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