Strategy, tactics and logistics are interrelated factors in this January to June 2017 issue, with a variety of interdisciplinary contexts. The military sciences are increasingly projected as a defense science, in the field of strategic studies. Here, the three domains of strategy, tactics, and logistics give strength to this field of the social sciences, oriented by strategic objectives.

In the epistemological project of our journal that aims to build bridges between scien ce and the humanities, we consider that together, science, technology, and public organization (technoscience) could constitute a new means to improve the society and the human condition, through complex interaction between basic and applied scientific research, promoting technologi cal development collective efforts to the application of the social technologies to the problems of war and peace.

In this issue, there are significant contributions to the genealogy of strategy, international relations, military doctrine, gender mainstreaming, current education challenges, occupational health, disease detection and charismatic leadership. The reviews present working papers con cerning the new discoveries on the road to physical reality of Fritjof Capra and Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura, and including social problems of human security and a management strategy for risk control of nuclear, biological or chemical threats.

The section exempla artium, or artistic expression, contains vernacular landscapes by the francophone artist Pierre Dufort from Canada, born in 1943, who at the age of only 14 took his first painting courses with the sculptor Max Boucher. De l'ombre à la lumière (Out of the shade towards the light) synthesizes his artistic proposal, written in French -his mother tongue. The cover contains a triptych of the artist about the Battle of Saint-Denis, November 1837, where the republican armed forces from French Canada confront the British armed forces, in times when this popular revolt propitiated the participation of "a significant part of the population Lower Canada" (in Quebec today).

The journal ends with the announcement of a piece of good news for the Colombian military reality: the recognition of the Escuela Militar de Cadetes, alma mater of the Colombian Army, as an institution of higher education, accredited in high quality by the Ministry for Education of Colombia. Likewise, the journal has designated strategies to improve its impact in terms of visibility and consultation on behalf of the scientific community.