The warfighting function Intelligence during the conquest of Tawantinsuyo
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Tawantinsuyo - agents - collaborators - quipu – informationAbstract
The conquest of the Tawantinsuyo (four regions linked together) is a historical fact that is still questionable and debatable in our reality. Although it is true, it has been analyzed from a historiographical perspective, it has not yet been possible to discern military aspects that concern the study of military sciences and, therefore, of military history. It is in this context that the need arises to search for reliable facts through heuristic methods on military aspects that currently provide, as a set of tasks, a systemic function to the object of military history: war as a social phenomenon. Based on what has been described, a comparison was established between the historical data collected and its sources with the tasks assigned to military intelligence, understood as a combat function (CF) or warfighting function (WFF). For this, three moments are described: the first, focuses on the sightings of the conquerors in Tawantinsuyo and the first contact between an agent sent by Atahualpa and the peninsulares; the second, specifies the capture of the Inca Atahualpa and how his possible rescue is planned through an agent and the supreme warlord; Finally, a general idea of the functions of the Yachayhuasi (house of knowledge) and the quipus (knots) in the inca society related to some military intelligence activities is provided.
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