The intuition of network analysis of the Spanish military during the Rif War as a method of combating weapons smuggling

• Main Author: Julián Antonio Paniagua López
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2015-08-01
• Series: REDES: Revista Hispana para el Análisis de Redes Sociales
• Subjects: marruecos - guerra del rif - contrabando de armas - análisis de redes sociales
• Online Access: https://revistes.uab.cat/redes/article/view/579

<p class="Maintext">This article explains one of the strategies employed by the Spanish army during the Riff war (1919-1926) to monitor and prevent the smuggling of goods. It consisted of monitoring of certain nodes and the connections each other, but the system was not based on the concrete map of the territory, but in what today is understood as social networks analysis, whose first book using that method was published in 1934. Oviously, it was not a theoretical or systematic processing in the analysis, but an intuition of the method, because it is very unlikely that the Spanish military at that time had received appropriate training in mathematical graph theory. However, due to the accuracy of the content of links each node, the four types of nodes and to the development of the graphic information, this work should be considered as a forerunner of the method, to the same level as of other precursors of that time.<strong></strong></p>