01/08/17  |  Insights
Galileo: European GPS (update)
Last December, the Galileo European GPS satellite system became operational. The global positioning system stems from the need for a system ...
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24/07/17  |  Insights
17 ° Flocking and fighting with bare hands
"Sufficit animus!" "Enough of the audacity!" It is with this motto that Colonel Claudio Fiore, commander of the 17 Stormo Raiders at the Ugo Airport, receives me in his office
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18/07/17  |  Insights
Cinofili Firefighter Core: Surface scattered research with topographic techniques
The 115 is the only national telephone number with which all citizens can request the immediate intervention of the VVF rescue teams of the province of origin ...
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11/07/17  |  Insights
History of the Youngest Specialty of the Army
The AVES is the youngest of the Army specialties, born from just 66 years, celebrated the 10 last May (see article), but this does not make it the least important, indeed. Why...
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30/06/17  |  Insights
Core Cowboys Firefighters: training in a rubble field
"We can judge a man's heart by the way he treats animals" (Emmanuel Kant). On the road that leads us to the camp where the canine units of the brigade train ...
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28/06/17  |  Insights
Tuscania: the perfect weapon (2 part)
The departure is from the Vannucci barracks in Livorno, where the paratrooper carabinieri of the first Tuscania regiment have their base. From here the boys of the explorers course leave ...
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23/06/17  |  Insights
Boeing's weights for the projection of US power
William Edward Boeing (1881-1956), was born in Detroit, Michigan. Leaving studies at Yale University, 1903 moves to Washington State where, in the county of ...
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22/06/17  |  Insights
Tuscania: the perfect weapon (1 part)
Men of excellence, those of our armed forces and, in this case, of the carabinieri. In a normal country they should be thanked every day for the work they do on ...
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20/06/17  |  Insights
Fire Brigade: selection, means, organization and training
Among fires, emergencies, environmental alarms, work accidents, gas leaks and sick transport, they don't know ...
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16/06/17  |  Insights
Military body combat systems. Requirements and prerogatives
As is known, for a number of centuries before the advent of "firearms", the forms of war fighting ...
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15/06/17  |  Insights
Fire Brigade, Ancient History
"... Proud both as a citizen and as Interior Minister of a Body that is the backbone of the Protection System ...
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03/06/17  |  Insights
Ceremonial Pills: Trump's recent visit from Pope Francis
The recent trip to Italy of the newly elected president of the United States, Donald Trump, recently concluded, who has ...
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15/05/17  |  Insights
The debt
Within an increasingly complex economic system but with the proper foundations of debt and recourse to ...
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11/05/17  |  Insights
Pirates are back!
The phenomenon of rampant piracy in Somali waters seemed to have stopped. After a kind of truce lasting ...
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09/05/17  |  Insights
Immediate relief: Emergency management in case of terrorist attacks
The scenario of a terrorist attack, whether it be committed with IED or automatic weapons, is one of the most ...
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08/05/17  |  Insights
Short story of the long history of tanks
101 years ago, and exactly on January 16, 1916, the first prototype tank, the British Mother (photo ...
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02/05/17  |  Insights
Trump, a little crazy and good communicator
What unites Donald Trump with sociology and communication? His working life is now that of politics. The...
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21/04/17  |  Insights
Entertainment, Computing and Warplanes for the American Dream of California
The United States is commonly considered to be the country of great opportunities but also the fierce contradictions ....
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20/04/17  |  Insights
The evolution of the vertical take-off aircraft
The recent release of a video (see below) about new Sikorsky S-97 flight tests, coming soon ...
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30/03/17  |  Insights
AQIS
The 3 September 2014 leader of al-Qaeda Central, Ayman al-Zawahiri announced to the Islamist world the birth of a new ...
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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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