24/07/2015 - Sir Alexander Fleming, the one who discovered penicillin, was born in Lochfield, Scotland, on 6 on August 1881.
Life as a boy sees him living country life, but immediately gives evidence of great gifts of observation. He stopped to observe anything and tried to snatch the secrets. He was passionate about sports and shooting.
15/07/2015 - This contribution is based on the current international scene, also with regard to the theaters in which our Armed Forces are involved in various capacities, and the legislative proposals that, in recent months, have received an echo media, attracting the interest of the writer both as a jurist attentive to military issues, and as a "politician" and who, albeit in opposite directions, highlight the centrality and ever-increasing importance that civil cooperation must (or should) assume - military and offer the starting point for some reflections, considerations and proposals.
10/07/2015 - Last week was presented by Beretta SpA and Intellitronika Srl a device that from July 1 is tested by carabinieri of the district of the Provincial Command of Milan. The system is called "i-PROTECT" and, since the first users in the world are the military of the Arma, we have contacted the boss Armament and Special Equipment Office of the General Command, Colonel Paolo Aceto.
02/07/2015 - The dawn of 2 July 1993 still had nothing to tell, it was a day like many others in the tormented Somali land.
The sunset of that 2 July, instead, was screaming pain, dismay and fear.
11/06/2015 - The rapid expansion of the network and the transition from an almost predictable one-way threat to a series of multilateral and asymmetrical challenges have made the current geopolitical framework liquid and unstable.
08 / 06 / 2015 - According to Richard A. Preston and Sidney Wise: There is no need to insist much on the fact that the war has been influenced by social and technical changes. Weapons are products of the art. The armies reflect the society from which they derive (see "Social History of War", Mondadori 1973).
23/05/2015 - The Gaza Strip is crossed by numerous roads that unwind along its entire extension; more or less practicable routes traveled every day by hundreds of Palestinians. However, many do not know that another Gaza lives underground, more complicated and certainly less frequented.
15/05/2015 - Last week we visited an event reserved for insiders, the IDEF'15 in Istanbul. An appointment in which we should participate - as Italians - with greater publicity and pride also in the motherland. Let's imagine then to organize something like this from us ...
11/05/2015 - “Have you ever played video games? Then you will know how to fly with the F-35 ”.
It's a warm morning on Wednesday, May 6, in Istanbul. The international defense fair, in full swing, is home to the most powerful military companies on the planet.
04/05/2015 - With regard to the defense industry, particular importance is attributed to the “dual use” concept, ie the possibility of both civil and military use of a product or technology.
03/05/2015 - The first peshmerga units were set up in the 1991s, at the birth of the Kurdish independence movement. In XNUMX, in the months following the Gulf War, the Peshmerga were the protagonists of a revolt against Saddam Hussein, which led to the establishment of the autonomous Kurdish Republic within the Iraqi state.
01/05/2015 - Last week I witnessed an extremely interesting event: it was an international conference, held at the Cesano Infantry School, on the procedures for using the infantry, the equipment and weapons supplied. I happened upon it without initially knowing how instructive it would be.
26/04/2015 - Faced with an imminent danger that puts hundreds of human lives at risk, there are no personal considerations or political positions that take: we must intervene promptly and with every available means. However, years later the crisis is daily and shows no signs of improvement.
17/04/2015 - Ladies and gentlemen, we did it: we had a green light for the publication of a document that, if abroad would not be anything special, in our country it is a real event.
14/04/2015 - This, in Kurdish language, means "Peshmerga" and the fighters who continue to force back the attacks of ISIS that presses on the front of Iraqi Kurdistan deserve to fully bear that name.
25/03/2015 - UNAMIR (United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda) was a United Nations assistance mission, deployed on Rwandan soil during the 1994 genocide. The operation was led by General Jacques Roger Booh-Booh, while the operations command on the field it was entrusted to General Roméo Dallaire.
05/03/2015 - Once the exploration of what are the requisites necessary for a conduct that constitutes a crime carried out by agents of the Security Information Services during an intelligence operation can be judged, it is of fundamental importance to analyze the procedure by which conduct, or conduct, are legitimately authorized by the President of the Council of Ministers or by the delegated Authority where established.
04/03/2015 - To better understand what is contained in art. 17 of the law in question, a systematic analysis of the same will be carried out, with the aim of capturing all the even more hidden aspects that are hidden behind a lexical structure at times of dubious interpretation.
03/03/2015 - On Tuesday 10 February 2015 the Council of Ministers approved, on the proposal of the Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, and of the Ministers of the Interior Angelino Alfano, of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Paolo Gentiloni, of Defense Roberta Pinotti, and of Justice Andrea Orlando , a law decree called "Urgent measures to combat terrorism, including international ones, as well as the extension of the international missions of the Armed Forces and Police, development cooperation initiatives".
25/02/2015 - For a year now, the reform of the system of representation of military personnel has been under the attention of the Defense Commission of the Chamber, a subject that mainly fascinates professionals, but which is of vital importance for all military personnel.