Qualla: Campo Vía pocket https://qualla.com/campo-via-pocket en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:39:58 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Campo Vía pocket https://qualla.com/campo-via-pocket Campo Vía pocket: Introduction https://qualla.com/campo-via-pocket/ Surrender, in the Chaco, often had less to do with bullets than with water. By December 1933, two Bolivian divisions found themselves penned into a stretch of thorn scrub west of the outpost of Alihuatá, their supply lines cut, their wells beyond reach. Around them the Paraguayan army had drawn a noose of barbed wire and machine-gun nests, and the only question left was how long flesh could hold out against thirst. On 11 December, the answer came. It was one of the most complete battlefield encirclements anywhere between the two World Wars, and it happened in a place almost no one outside Paraguay and Bolivia has ever heard of.

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/e/v/7/campo-via-pocket-wp/6ev7-campo-v-a-pocket-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Campo Vía pocket: The Trap https://qualla.com/campo-via-pocket/ Colonel José Félix Estigarribia, the Paraguayan field commander, had spent weeks preparing a double envelopment, the maneuver every general studies and few ever pull off. With a force of some seventeen thousand men drawn from several divisions, he kept Bolivian attention fixed fo...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/e/v/7/campo-via-pocket-wp/6ev7-campo-v-a-pocket-the-trap.mp3 0:06 2 full Campo Vía pocket: The Capitulation https://qualla.com/campo-via-pocket/ The encircled army held for days, but a surrounded force in the waterless Chaco does not have days to spare. On 11 December the trapped divisions capitulated. The numbers are grim and the sources vary slightly, but the scale is not in doubt: up to two thousand Bolivian soldiers w...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/e/v/7/campo-via-pocket-wp/6ev7-campo-v-a-pocket-the-capitulation.mp3 0:06 3 full Campo Vía pocket: The Reckoning https://qualla.com/campo-via-pocket/ Campo Vía broke something in the Bolivian war effort. In the weeks that followed, Paraguayan troops cleared the Bolivian army out of the eastern Chaco entirely. The German general Hans Kundt, a veteran of the First World War who had commanded the Bolivian forces through their cos...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/e/v/7/campo-via-pocket-wp/6ev7-campo-v-a-pocket-the-reckoning.mp3 0:06 4 full Campo Vía pocket: An Empty Field Today https://qualla.com/campo-via-pocket/ There is nothing dramatic to see at Campo Vía now, only the same flat thorn forest and the same hard light that the trapped men knew. That emptiness is, in a way, the point. Wars are usually remembered by their monuments, but the Chaco swallowed most of its dead without ceremony,...

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