13/06/17  |  Publishing
We lost Libya!
Remember the 2003? Iraq's information minister Al Sahaf - with the Americans now a few kilometers away - continued to deny reality on the ground and announced ...
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02/06/17  |  Publishing
2 pre-election June?
There is never an end to humiliation. The parade of the 2 June has long represented a moment of pride for many servants of the state, a special parenthesis, an audience ...
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08/05/17  |  Publishing
Alarm Clock: The Twentieth Century is over!
"Stupid stupid that the rivers are full, you can stay afloat ..." Battiato sang in the 80 years. More than elitist or provocative, the quote was very current for ...
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21/04/17  |  Publishing
Gentiloni-Trump: nothingness, clothed with courtesy (and Italy remains Italy)
The first bilateral meeting between the Italian Prime Minister and President Trump ends zero to zero. It was to be expected; basically what was said by Gentiloni to ...
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14/04/17  |  Publishing
The horizon of the Italian volunteers: the destiny of a nation
Dear Director, I am the parent of a soldier who risks being left out of any working context, both military and civil, after 9 years. In fact, I'd like to talk about VFP4 ...
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10/04/17  |  Publishing
Super Bowl in Defense Committee?
In independent journalism, in addition to so many bitternesses, every so often you come across really amusing episodes. The last deserves to be told. Last February a colleague with ...
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23/03/17  |  Publishing
God attacks?
There is a profession in vogue for a long time: the expert on terrorism. A field in which to believe or not in God is indifferent and in which having met half a terrorist is superfluous. Figure ...
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09/03/17  |  Publishing
The F-35 ... explained to a biker!
For years there has been controversy over the purchase of an aircraft which (unfortunately) in Italy rarely affects operational adequacy or technical qualities in evaluations. With us a test ...
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06/03/17  |  Publishing
A continual revolution, in Italy
Not everyone imagines it, but in Italy there is a reality that in recent years is destroying a field in which logic ...
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20/02/17  |  Publishing
Serve yes, but who?
It is with some concern that I open the front pages of newspapers in recent weeks. That Italy does not have a ...
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20/12/16  |  Publishing
Tuesday 20 December: is Italy - undivided - alongside its standard bearers in uniform?
The Carabiniere Ship Campaign begins today. Target: Australia and Southeast Asia. A mission of over 4 months in ...
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01/12/16  |  Publishing
Europe: the real enemy is the sense of guilt
When the European powers divided Africa with the Berlin Conference in 1884, there were two assumptions: the ...
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15/11/16  |  Publishing
Bulgaria and Moldova, the new Euroscepticism comes from the East. Is the European Union at the end?
After the Trump earthquake, two other micro-calamities hit the European Union: Bulgaria won the presidential elections ...
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09/11/16  |  Publishing
Syria: the ISIS farce ended, a more dangerous one begins in Raqqa
"The removal of ISIS tumor from the so-called capital of their so-called Caliphate is the next step in ...
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27/09/16  |  Publishing
Minister, Italy needs everything but to lose other sovereignty
European Army, not European Army ... the debate of the last hours has focused on definitions and ...
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21/09/16  |  Publishing
Syria, the keyword: disinformation
We remain on an objective level: in Syria there is a government, like it or not, legitimate and internationally ...
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10/08/16  |  Publishing
Syria: does the regime propaganda start again? (our)
Last Saturday, during the offensive that would have broken the encirclement of the Aleppo rebel area, I came across ...
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17/07/16  |  Publishing
Turkey: coup leaders or heroes?
When it comes to war, the reasons can be recognized both for one and the other faction. When you hear ...
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01/07/16  |  Publishing
If the next President was Hillary Clinton ...
The American election year comes alive and this concerns us closely. Our interest goes beyond information ...
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30/06/16  |  Publishing
The memory of Carlo "Bud Spencer" Pedersoli
I have no idea what the profile of the "average reader" of Online Defense may be, but it is reasonable to assume that we can ...
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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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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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