The Battle of the Ebro. Complexity and coevolution

Abstract

Often the battle of the Ebro has been presented as the last battle of World War I and at the same time as the first battle of World War II, we consider something that evolved between the beginning and the end of the battle. No doubt confrontation Ebro is the most experienced several variables: technical, technological, organizational, cultural... to achieve victory conditions. The article analyzes, from an evolutionary perspective, as in the dynamic generated in the battlefield, and in a context of complexity, certain options were selected and they may impose on others. The battle became the big test of who would be the new great confrontation in Europe, a conflict in which aircraft as weapons and armor reached a new role generating new lines of military culture.