22/03/21  |  Analysis
The defense of the Italian outposts
Italy cannot help but consider Africa as a pillar of fundamental importance for its own security. Projected in the central Mediterranean and with the coasts ...
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22/03/21  |  Analysis
Vaccine diplomacy and its effects
An aphorism generally attributed to Winston Churchill reads "Never let a good crisis go to waste", that is "never let a good crisis go to waste", because crises ...
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19/03/21  |  Analysis
Why accuse the head of state of a foreign power of being a murderer?
In the interview with George Stephanopoulos for ABC news, US President Biden touched on various topics: obviously he talked about the pandemic, but also about ...
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18/03/21  |  Analysis
Sweden and the consequences of 200 years of peace
The faculty of conceptualization is the quid that should allow abstraction abilities typical of every average thinking biped: the conditional is a must, given the ease of ...
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15/03/21  |  Analysis
Xi Jinping's "Chinese dream"
No nation has ever experienced the quality and speed of development with which China has entered the international stage in the last 30 years. Interpreter and architect ...
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09/03/21  |  Analysis
Djibouti: a disputed micro-state in the Horn of Africa
Djibouti is a strip of land nestled between Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia, on the border between the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean. This African state, almost invisible on geographical maps ...
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03/03/21  |  Analysis
The Chinese claws on the Congo. The race for Africa of a "technological empire"
Congo as a "non-place" at the beginning of the world to quote Joseph Conrad and his "Heart of Darkness", a land that feeds on blood and the same absolute silence that ...
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28/02/21  |  Analysis
Azerbaijan and Turkey: Siamese twins
During the 90s, the then president-master of Azerbaijan, Heydar Aliyev, in describing the 360-degree relations between his country and Turkey, first coined ...
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26/02/21  |  Analysis
Italy arm in arm with Azerbaijan
During the recent Second Nagorno-Karabakh War, which lasted from 27 September to 10 November 2020, the ...
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24/02/21  |  Analysis
Democratic Republic of Congo: "magnificent cake to share"
The tragic events that took place in the Democratic Republic of Congo are now well known: the murder of the ambassador ...
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23/02/21  |  Analysis
Looking for America
The appearance of each new Stars and Stripes Administration on the international stage leads us to ask ourselves how ...
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15/02/21  |  Analysis
Libyan castles of anger
Geopolitically, the Mediterranean fits with some precision to the American expression VUCA, where Volatility, ...
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08/02/21  |  Analysis
The protection of national interests on the sea
Among geopolitical analysts the question of foreign policy and the protection of national interests seems to be ...
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31/01/21  |  Analysis
Does backyard politics respond to national interests?
The Italian political scene in recent days stands out in several respects; first of all because of a seething crisis ...
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26/01/21  |  Analysis
Triangolo Norte: between corruption, violence and hope in the new US administration
In the "Northern Triangle" of Central America (Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador) it is estimated that the coronavirus has ...
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19/01/21  |  Analysis
The Portkey of the Ayatollahs
The dimensions within which geopolitics operates are different; time is an understanding of global power based on a ...
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18/01/21  |  Analysis
Confucian order and hierarchy underpinning China's rise
In the year in which China will achieve the first of the two objectives indicated by Xi Jinping at the time of his investiture (...
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15/01/21  |  Analysis
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict of 2020 and the (technological) evolution of military operations
The "small" war of Nagorno Karabakh1, which ended with the ceasefire of November 9, 2020 after forty-four ...
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14/01/21  |  Analysis
The new cold war in the Arctic
In recent years, the Kremlin has been launching initiatives aimed at establishing a strong military presence in the extreme ...
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14/01/21  |  Analysis
Trump, his "mistakes" and his legacy
Whether we like it or not, the Trump adventure is closing, leaving behind many ashes and uncomfortable legacies 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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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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