08/04/22 | Insights
Ukraine: at the origins of the conflict
It often happens that to understand the origins of a conflict, as to understand where an evil comes from, one must investigate until the triggering cause is found: an event ...
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30/03/22 | Insights
Napoleon and Ukraine
Ukraine is today at the center of a world question capable of determining the rupture of a status that has lasted since the end of the "Cold War". A land historically different from ...
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11/03/22 | Insights
Valery Vasilyevich Gerasimov. The military man and the theorist
Valery Vasilyevich Gerasimov was born in Kazan, in what was the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic until 1990, on 8 September 1955. Since 9 November 2012 it is the ...
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23/09/21 | Insights
The Counter Mini / Micro Remotely Piloted Aircraft Center of Excellence
The best definition of intelligence is "ability to adapt" to changes, contexts, unforeseen novelties. This quality, despite some nice "Italianness", ...
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02/09/21 | Insights
Direct Energy Weapons, DEW (part 3/3): considerations on systems and prospects for use
In previous articles we have presented the principles of possible DEW systems and we have dwelt on illustrating and analyzing the operating principles, listing the ...
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01/09/21 | Insights
Direct Energy Weapons, DEW (part 2/3): laser and microwave weapon systems
Considering the possible types of direct energy weapons and analyzing the experiments that have taken place in the world, it clearly emerges that the two most ...
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31/08/21 | Insights
Direct Energy Weapons, DEW (part 1/3): introduction and classification
Star Wars, the famous film series originally directed by George Lucas, has millions of fans around the world. Many of the sequences that everyone remembers describe long and ...
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18/08/21 | Insights
White flag
The dramatic images of these hours coming from Afghanistan summarize, in the most tragic way, not only the failure of a military mission which - although it was ...
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13/05/21 | Insights
Intelligence and decision making
Legends fueled by the mystery surrounding this type of activity revolve around the world of intelligence. The...
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12/02/21 | Insights
Civilian police forces in international missions
The peace operations, in their various articulations, have seen the addition of numerous military personnel ...
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26/01/21 | Insights
The military parachute: Like Thunderbolt from the sky ... safely
There is little to say, the paratrooper's license is coveted by every soldier and in every armed force. It is not in fact ...
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18/12/20 | Insights
Cesano Infantry School: mortar fire
In our visit, last October, to the Cesano Infantry School we were able to witness a ...
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11/12/20 | Insights
Karate in its military application
Before addressing what is certainly one of the least known aspects of Karate, it is necessary to remember the ...
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23/11/20 | Insights
The threat of naval mines in the third millennium, the programs of the Italian Navy
At the dawn of the third millennium, the regional and global geopolitical scenario is characterized by ever greater tensions ...
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19/11/20 | Insights
Cesano Infantry School: combat training
Guests of Brigadier General Roberto Viglietta, commander of the Cesano Infantry School, based at the ...
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09/11/20 | Insights
Rotors: the architectures for attack helicopters
Since the Second World War, and in particular since the Vietnam War, the helicopter has proven to be a means ...
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08/07/20 | Insights
What to do in the event of a terrorist attack
The lockdown is over and everyone moves freely: including terrorists! Unfortunately we cannot let our guard down, ...
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17/06/20 | Insights
Russian security companies used in Sub-Saharan Africa: mission (im) possible?
Before its dissolution in 1991, the Soviet Union was a key player in sub-Saharan Africa. But all ...
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13/05/20 | Insights
Sweden's strategy against the pandemic: open primary schools and older people to be protected (second and final part)
Sweden never ceases to amaze. The Nordic country is facing the current crisis with great courage, but also with ...
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11/05/20 | Insights
The anti-coronavirus strategy explained to the Italians: Online Defense asks, the Ministry answers (first part)
This is the first of two articles with which the Swedish Ministry of Health explains to readers of Defense Online, ...
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Publishing
In Defense of Cecilia Sala: Reflections on Justice and (Juvenile) Opinions in Freedom
The news of the arrest and detention of Cecilia Sala in the homeland prisons of the happy Islamic Republic of Iran, now belongs to the past news. Far from sharing the whys and the...
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Letters to the Director
Letter to Difesa Online: "Save the Navy!"
Dear Director, We kindly ask you to publish this letter, which is as open as it is heartfelt and truthful, concerning the need to “save” the Navy from a situation...
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