The Spanish defensive system in Guantánamo in the war of 1898

Abstract

The necessity of the study of the war of 1898 justifies the present work, in which the characteristics, operative preparation and the influence of the theater of military operations are exposed in the Spanish capitulation. The concepts of the military art are assumed, with the employment of methods of the historical investigation, under the materialistic dialectical foundation. The defensive measures in Guantánamo and the disposition of their forces went you would count to the principles of the military art. The grouping of the forces toward the interior of the defensive lines, they facilitated the fence for the troops mambisas, they increased the logistical insurance and they disabled the advance Santiago de Cuba it has more than enough. The insufficient use of the advantages of the theater of operations and the errors in the combative actions, they allowed to the mambises to apply forms and effective methods of fight armada that contributed to the victory of the combined forces.