23/12/23  |  Analysis
Red Sea crisis: a "defensive" operation is not necessary
Italy will be present in the Red Sea to counter attacks by the Yemeni Houthis against merchant ships with the multi-role frigate Fasan of the Navy. It deals with...
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22/12/23  |  Analysis
Between retrenchment and redeployment: Washington's challenges
In March 1946, President Harry Truman launched a $400 million aid package for Greece and Turkey, a move that, in effect, would...
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21/12/23  |  Analysis
Bab el Mandeb: avoid the opening of a new war front
One of the greatest risks to be avoided in the dramatic Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the extension of its radius of action to the rest of the area. A danger that risks...
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21/12/23  |  Analysis
2024: The West must decide if it wants Ukraine to win
Where is the Russian invasion of Ukraine headed in 2024? The recent assessment of the Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief Valery Zaluzhny on the stalling of his army's counteroffensive has ...
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19/12/23  |  Foreign Shorts
Deep Red Sea
The Houthi attacks have produced a series of inevitable reactions: the collapse of the profitability of the Suez Canal, a much needed inducement for a re-elected but...
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12/12/23  |  Foreign Shorts
Venezuela: Maduro is looking for a casus belli to seek a popular consensus that has now disappeared?
In 2015, major oil fields were discovered off the coast of Essequibo for the first time by a consortium led by ExxonMobil, sparking interest...
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08/12/23  |  Analysis
The sulphurous geopolitics of the idealist Henry
The ascent, ennobled from eternity, on the grand staircase of political science, allows diplomatic comparisons only imaginable in life and more prudently whispered in...
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04/12/23  |  Analysis
Iran and the (non) Palestinian cause
The conflict in the Middle East, and for some time, has accustomed us to complex scenarios, in a sort of matryoshka wars, each containing others, from local to those at risk of a...
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01/12/23  |  Analysis
When death comes knocking, use opium
The XNUMXst century will be remembered, initially, for epidemics; healthy carriers of ancestral terrors who have...
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29/11/23  |  Analysis
The Kremlin's landing at the OSCE
Two days before the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the deputy minister of...
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22/11/23  |  Analysis
What peace in the Middle East, without the end of the "proxy states"?
That an asymmetric conflict is being fought between Israel and Hamas is evident even just in the subjects involved: one...
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16/11/23  |  Analysis
The clash between Zelensky and Zaluzhnyi over war-torn Ukraine changes little
Those who know a little about history will only notice that during the wars, at a certain point, regardless of how the...
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15/11/23  |  Analysis
The new Russian maritime strategy
Unlike the US approach, where the US Navy has always defined its role and strategy, the Navy...
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13/11/23  |  Foreign Shorts
Ukrainian General Naiev visited the NATO command in Brunssum
On Friday, November 10, the commander of the Joint Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (JFC AFU), Lieutenant General…
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11/11/23  |  Analysis
Hamas and Houthis and modernized long-distance guerrilla warfare
The chronicle of missile launches and the use of drones by the pro-Iranian Yemeni Houthis towards Jewish targets...
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07/11/23  |  Analysis
Iran, prisoners of a revolution
Jimmy Carter, 1978, “Thanks to the Shah's greatness, Iran is an island of stability in the Middle East.” Ali Ansari, “...
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28/10/23  |  Foreign Shorts
Russian missile makers avoid European sanctions
Since the start of the full-scale invasion, most of Russia's military production has fallen under sanctions...
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20/10/23  |  Analysis
Russia: How the FSB spies on foreign diplomats and journalists
The Operational Research Directorate of the FSB (Seventeenth Directorate, also known as OPU) is called...
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17/10/23  |  Foreign Shorts
Minister Crosetto in Saudi Arabia
“Italy is following with great attention and equal concern the current situation in the Middle East, crisis...
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16/10/23  |  Analysis
The dilemma of the battle of Gaza
From the first hours of the Al-Aqsa Flood operation, conducted by Hamas on Israeli territory, it was clear that...
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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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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 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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