23/03/17  |  Military world
The UFO hidden by Mussolini: an extravagant theory, between WunderWaffen and an Italian Area 51
UFO, Unidentified Flying Object, is the acronym with which we are used to call, from 1952, the unidentified objects that appear in the skies of our planet and that ...
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23/03/17  |  Seaside
young people and the sea: for 65 of them the possibility of becoming "morosiniani"
The island of S. Elena, the last offshoot of Venice, hosts from the 1937 one of the Italian Military Schools of excellence and of the Navy: the Naval School "Francesco Morosini ...
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23/03/17  |  Missions
Lebanon: Italian blue helmets confirm the standards required by the United Nations
In the field of inspection activities, cyclically programmed by the UN against the national contingents participating in the UNIFIL mission, the Operational Readiness ...
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23/03/17  |  Publishing
God attacks?
There is a profession in vogue for a long time: the expert on terrorism. A field in which to believe or not in God is indifferent and in which having met half a terrorist is superfluous. Figure ...
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23/03/17  |  Interviews
Exclusive interview with General Antonio Bettelli: LEONTE, a novel
It 's May 27th 2011. The UNIFIL Italian peacekeepers in Lebanon are remembering their fallen, among them the Italian soldiers of Operation Leonte, too. At 15: 55, a ...
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23/03/17  |  Interviews
Lebanon, 27 May 2011, 15.55 hours ...
It's the 27 May 2011. In two days the blue helmets of the UNIFIL mission in Lebanon will remember their fallen, including the Italian soldiers of the Leonte operation. At...
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22/03/17  |  Events
Defense: Undersecretary Rossi for a ceremony entitled piazza a generale Dalla Chiesa
In the aftermath of the national day of remembrance and commitment in memory of the victims of the mafias, the Undersecretary of State for Defense, Mr Domenico Rossi, has ...
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22/03/17  |  Missions
The Carabiniere naval campaign in South-East Asia and Australia arrives in Malaysia
The European Multi Mission Frigate (FREMM) Carabiniere of the Italian Navy arrived today in Langkawi, the main island of the Malay archipelago on the maritime border with ...
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22/03/17  |  Missions
Kosovo: "Field Security Operation" tutorial
The Multinational Battle Group West (MNBG-W), unit of Kosovo Force (KFOR) with Italian leadership on 32 ° basis ...
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22/03/17  |  Guests Book
"Officer and Gentleman" (film)
This morning, going to the office I hear on the radio that today is the 35 anniversary of the release of the film "Official and ...
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22/03/17  |  Terra
Young officers in Marengo in the footsteps of Napoleon
Lesson of military history on the battlefield of Marengo (AL) for officers of the School of Application of the ...
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22/03/17  |  Events
Goodbye to Martin McGuinness, a Northern Irish politician lamented by everyone
There are few people like Martin McGuinness, who died at the Belfast hospital on 21 in March, they have better embodied ...
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22/03/17  |  Points of view
The Holy Military Constantinian Order of St. George
If evening out for Rome it can happen from time to time to attend ceremonies that have all the flavor of the ...
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21/03/17  |  Points of view
Other than fighting populisms, there is a need to rethink capitalism and globalization
Lately, in the mainstream media, it goes great way to label briskly with the term "populism" (understood in ...
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21/03/17  |  Military world
Israel loses a drone in Syrian airspace: according to Hezbollah it has been shot down
An IAF drone, the Israeli Air Force, was reportedly shot down on Sunday while flying over the Quneitra area, in ...
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21/03/17  |  History
Yamato battle ships
The great battleships Yamato and Musashi were the most famous and demanding buildings of the Imperial Navy ...
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21/03/17  |  Terra
"Military Erasmus" at the Application School
Thirty-three civilian and military students from Europe and the United States completed the Application School ...
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20/03/17  |  Interagency
Undersecretary of Defense Rossi receives the President of Cameroon in Piazza Venezia
The Undersecretary of State for Defense, Hon. Domenico Rossi, representing the government, received today in the square ...
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20/03/17  |  Missions
Lebanon: joint exercise "White Thunder 2017" between Italian blue helmets and the LAF
The "White Thunder 2017", ... has ended at the "Millevoi" Base in Shama, home of the command of Sector West, ...
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20/03/17  |  Military world
The secret US unit that jumped the Berlin Wall
A small group of seventy-year-old veterans of the US Army found themselves in 3 years ago in Fort Bragg for ...
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Tribute (due) to the 80th "Roma" infantry who takes leave with honor

Well, yes, we are now used to witnessing the closure of the barracks and perhaps even a little to burying the long history of the departments, a phenomenon which however does not erase the memories. It also touched...

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"Il Signor Parolini" (ninth part)

The baked chicken, as expected, had lived up to its reputation, consolidating, where needed, the undisputed culinary mastery of Gastone, chief ...

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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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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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