28/09/23 | Insights
The incessant challenge of unconventional conflict towards global security
In an absolute sense, security, whether global, regional or national, consists in the utopian absence of risks and dangers. On the other hand, as situational and therefore...
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27/09/23 | Events
25th Edition of the Malta International Airshow
The Navy participated in the 25th edition of the Malta International Airshow with an EH-101 helicopter from the 3rd group of the Catania helicopter station. For this event...
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27/09/23 | Insights
Drones: operational and tactical developments
Some doctrines and methods of warfare, typical of a distant past in which soldiers became real "cannon fodder", have fortunately been overcome and...
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26/09/23 | Interviews
September 1943: "Unconditional surrender"
I was born in 1970: a quarter of a century after the end of the Second World War. I have no memory of traces of the conflict during my childhood. I've been listening since...
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25/09/23 | Events
Thursday 28 September at 18.00 pm: "Difesa Online interviews Gianfranco Paglia"
Gianfranco Paglia is perhaps one of the most - and at the same time "least" - well-known characters in our armed forces. Today lieutenant colonel of the Army, gold medal for valor...
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25/09/23 | Letters to the Director
Letter to Difesa Online: "Let's save one of the most sacred places in the country!"
On the estate of the Salviati Dukes, at the mouth of the Serchio River, there is an abandoned secret base of the Royal Navy's Assaulters. With this letter that I entrust to the media...
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25/09/23 | Cyber
Technological warfare: a new chapter
As many readers will have noticed, for some time now we have been trying to follow what is happening in the world of technology, with particular regard to the geopolitical implications and...
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23/09/23 | Events
Monday 25th at 21.00pm: "Who will help the Armenians now? The Ukrainians...?"
After more than 9 months of siege, hunger and hardship, Azerbaijan bombed Artsakh. Hundreds of dead and injured, including civilians. The plan worked: the surrender has arrived......
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23/09/23 | Letters to the Director
The difficult legacy of history
History is a scientific field, whatever some may say, an art that allows us to know and above all to...
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21/09/23 | Events
Inauguration of the 63rd Genoa Boat Show
“Today began with the cutting of the ribbon in the setting of the new Genoese waterfront,” says the undersecretary of...
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21/09/23 | Events
Tonight at 21.00 pm: "Difesa Online interviews General Gianpaolo Miniscalco"
General Gianpaolo Miniscalco served in the Air Force for 42 years, learning to fly with the Air Force...
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19/09/23 | Events
Statement by the Ambassador of the Republic of Armenia to Italy on today's aggression by Azerbaijan
Today, Azerbaijan launched a massive unprovoked attack on Nagorno-Karabakh, targeting cities and civilians on…
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19/09/23 | Guests Book
Andrea Santangelo: Invincible Russia - How Peter the Great, Alexander I and Stalin defeated the invaders
Andrea Santangelo Ed. Carocci, Rome 2022 pages. 286 “I cannot predict Russia's actions. He is a riddle...
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18/09/23 | Events
Visit of Undersecretary Perego to the training center of the Navy of Venice
“The important training reality of the city of Venice” states the Undersecretary of State for Defense Matteo Perego of...
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15/09/23 | Events
'Risorsa Mare' forum in Trieste: "our safe, defended and preserved sea is in everyone's interest"
“The Mediterranean Sea represents a historical heritage for our country which draws support for the economy from it...
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10/09/23 | Events
Homage to the 23.000 soldiers who fell in the Great War at the Cima Grappa military memorial
A sun-kissed day saw the Italian and Hungarian Defense Ministers visit the...
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05/09/23 | Points of view
Romania in support of Ukraine
In the context of the war in Ukraine, the strategic objective of Romania - a NATO member state - was and is the...
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02/09/23 | Military law
The legal regime of weapons fallen in hereditary succession
What happens if weapons are included in the estate upon the death of a relative? What are the requirements...
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31/08/23 | Letters to the Director
Letter to Online Defense: "Are the armed forces fascists?"
Dear director, many media and politicians like to define the military (or at least some departments) as "fascists". TO...
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30/08/23 | Cyber
Electronic Warfare, Cyber Attack or Sabotage? Train attack in Poland
It is recent news that between 25 and 26 August about twenty passenger and freight trains were blocked...
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Events
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Backchannels and fireworks: US mediation behind Iranian retaliation on Israel?
As announced by the Iranian regime, the announced retaliation for the (unannounced) attack on the Iranian consulate in Damascus on 1 April 2024 which led to the death of...
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Letters to the Director
Letters to Defense Online: "Carabinieri and sinking of the Garibaldi"
Mine is not meant to be a sterile controversy but after more than thirty years of wearing the uniform I consider it a "fair" controversy. Decisions regarding the size and composition of forces...
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