26/03/23 | Publishing
Has Putin understood Xi Jinping's masterpiece?
In the past week, much has been written in the media about Xi Jinping's trip to Moscow. Going back 15 months, however, I would like to recall one aspect:...
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20/03/23 | Publishing
National day in memory of the victims of the coronavirus epidemic… and the Defense still has the “COVI”???
“In the image of the sad procession that paraded here three years ago there is not only pain, there is also Italy's redemption. There is a State that does what it must, there is the Defense for...
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17/03/23 | Publishing
New column coming soon: DOT!
Soon, on the Online Defense YouTube channel, we will inaugurate a new column: DOT - "Defense On Target". We will explore the world of firearms with teachings, experiences,…
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07/03/23 | Publishing
Does Italy look (finally) beyond its own nose?
After embarrassing years in which our country has prostrated itself at the feet of a regime that is enemy of every aspect of democracy, a Prime Minister "seems" to have...
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07/03/23 | Publishing
Dear minister, don't give a damn and set an example…
Dear Minister Guido Crosetto, some controversies are mounting following your decision to form a "committee for the development and enhancement of defense culture...
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01/03/23 | Publishing
Garibaldi would have said: "Here you make the best means or you die!"
The Chief of Staff of the Army, General Pietro Serino, was heard in recent weeks by the Defense Commissions of the Chamber and Senate on the state of the force...
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27/02/23 | Publishing
The boredom of facts and the "color" of gossip. Diatribes on the war in Ukraine
The very recent live broadcast in this newspaper on the anniversary of the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine has sparked a flurry of controversies – some sensible,...
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13/01/23 | Publishing
Online Defense: end of madness?
The adventure of a magazine that immediately set out to spread a "culture of defence" no longer as a niche phenomenon but as a reality has now reached its tenth year...
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24/12/22 | Publishing
At the end of 2022 a ray of light: Andrea Costantino is at home!
The most beautiful Christmas ever: the return of Andrea Costantino! After 15 hallucinating months in prison spent between…
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12/12/22 | Publishing
Once upon a time there was a naja… now it's mini
The president of the Senate La Russa has "presented" a bill (through the FdI group of senators)...
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05/12/22 | Publishing
Question for "Giorgia's notes": Shall we bring fellow citizen Costantino (after two years) home?
The prime minister Giorgia Meloni inaugurated the weekly column "Giorgia's notes". The initiative...
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29/10/22 | Publishing
Undersecretaries? There is no more time ...
Since the prime minister seems, in principle, to have broken the long tradition in ...
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28/10/22 | Publishing
Defense: adequate undersecretaries for a trained minister or ... the usual logic?
With the appointment of Guido Crosetto, to the defense department, after many years, Italy has a minister competent for this ...
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25/10/22 | Publishing
What if we also called it "Ministry of the Armed Forces"?
The first "international" meeting of the Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni was with the president of ...
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22/10/22 | Publishing
Online Defense Letter to the new Minister of Defense
With today's oath, in front of the President of the Italian Republic, Sergio Mattarella, the Meloni government ...
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22/10/22 | Publishing
Will Minister Guido Crosetto be able to defend the armed forces and defense companies from their worst enemy?
Potentially he is the best defense minister of the last century: shrewd and prepared he will not need people who ...
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21/10/22 | Publishing
Resignation of British Prime Minister Truss: the (dis) United Kingdom
The Prime Minister, Liz Truss, leaves 10 Downing Street after only 45 days in office, was to become the ...
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19/10/22 | Publishing
Great Silvio !!!
"I re-established relations with President Putin a bit, a bit a lot. In the sense that for my birthday he ...
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18/10/22 | Publishing
Guerini, baby!
Yesterday in Bulgaria, in the Novo Selo base, the transfer to Italy of the command of NATO Enhanced took place ...
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07/10/22 | Publishing
Will Italy soon stop serving Beijing?
Defense Undersecretary Pucciarelli renewed Italy's closeness and support to the Pakistani people ...
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Ariadna Pinto, symbol of repression in Venezuela under the Maduro regime
Ariadna Pinto was a very young Venezuelan of 20 years, arrested in August 2024 in the context of the post-election protests following the presidential election of President Nicolás Maduro....
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Letters to the Director
Letter to Difesa Online: "The European Army Remains a Mirage"
Dear Director, during my now forty-year military career I have often found myself working side by side with military personnel from other nations, NATO and otherwise, in high-level operational contexts and...
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