Mariano Sciaroni graduated as a lawyer, has a Master’s Degree in Strategy and Geopolitics, and a postgraduate course in contemporary military history from the Argentine Army’s Military Academy. He is currently working as a specialist in insurance and commercial law and lectures in procedural law at the Law Faculty of the Universidad Catolica Argentina. Living with wife and three children in Buenos Aires, he is a member of the Argentine Institute of Military History and a Sub-Lieutenant in the Argentine Army Reserve. He has published two books and dozens of articles on the military history of Argentina, published in Argentina, United States, Germany, and Russia. This is his second instalment for Helion’s @War series.