19/02/21 | Publishing
It was Draghi, but will the old politics win?
During the next council of ministers, the choice of the new Army Chief of Staff should be made. The conditional is a must because it would seem that the ...
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17/02/21 | Publishing
Will pro-Turkish politics also continue with Draghi's new diplomatic adviser?
Ambassador Luigi Mattiolo has been appointed diplomatic advisor to the Prime Minister Mario Draghi. He too, like his predecessor Piero Benassi, ...
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10/02/21 | Publishing
A challenge for the Draghi government: to take back the Mediterranean
Political consultations are underway to form a large majority executive, issues such as the pandemic plan and recovery are being put on the negotiating table ...
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20/01/21 | Publishing
First episode of "Defense ON AIR" (every Wednesday at 21.00): The situation of the Italian Armed Forces
Dear readers of Difesa Online, from tonight, every Wednesday at 21.00 pm, it will be broadcast live on our social channels Facebook and Youtube “Defense ON AIR”. The rubric will be a ...
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23/12/20 | Publishing
The third wave is already underway: we must get out of an emergency logic and think like a military
You know what happens when you hold your breath to keep your belly from showing? After some time your over-fed abdomen pops out and your tripe ...
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11/12/20 | Publishing
President Conte ask the Turks how to free our fishermen
After more than 100 days from the seizure - which took place on 1 September last - the families of the 18 fishermen of Mazara del Vallo are still waiting to know what actions our government ...
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05/12/20 | Publishing
To the unknown hero
When outlining a project, it begins with the usual load of good intentions; study of circumstances, correlations: everything should lead to the hatching of a picture ...
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25/11/20 | Publishing
The coronavirus vaccine is a huge geopolitical issue
Why do you talk so often - and from a socio-political rather than a medical point of view - about the coronavirus in a newspaper that deals with Defense and Geopolitics? Who thinks like this does ...
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13/11/20 | Publishing
A new “Chinese” lockdown like in spring would be harmful as well as useless
"Close the stable after the oxen have already fled" is a popular expression to indicate a measure taken ...
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04/11/20 | Publishing
"The blood of yesterday, the purity of the present, the hope in tomorrow"
"It is the Italian flag - under which the country united during the lockdown - the protagonist of an anniversary ...
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30/10/20 | Publishing
Yesterday's attacks in France and Saudi Arabia: blasphemous human sacrifices that raise questions
Yesterday's attacks in Nice and Jeddah (and perhaps in Avignon…) did not happen in one day and in two random countries. Yesterday...
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27/10/20 | Publishing
The false statistics of the coronavirus that nobody talks about and which only serve to condition Italians
For a few weeks, the average age1 of those infected with Sars-cov-2 in Italy has been oscillating between 43 and 46 years: we can say that ...
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15/10/20 | Publishing
Coronavirus: we are far from the peak and we are wasting time
There is no urticaria to hear of this "recovery" of COVID-19 in Europe and other regions as "second wave ...
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12/10/20 | Publishing
The scenarios of the "second wave": millions of coronavirus cases already exist in Italy
My wife asks me not to write more about COVID-19 since I started being a Cassandra novel on Defense ...
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09/10/20 | Publishing
Italian hostages: usual (deleterious) Byzantinisms of the Italian government
While the Prime Minister Conte thanks AISE and the Farnesina for the release of Maccalli and Chiacchio (in ...
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22/09/20 | Publishing
Xi Jinping as Lieutenant Marion Cobretti: "I am the cure"
In a high-level meeting to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the United Nations, the President of the Republic ...
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21/09/20 | Publishing
The anniversary of the capture of Rome, amidst gaffes, pacifist censures and wrong flags
Thank you, Madam Minister * Teresa Bellanova for making us smile on the anniversary of the capture of Rome, ...
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18/09/20 | Publishing
Dual Use: here's the bill to pay
In 1987, after the first year of War School (it was called that when the words still had a meaning and there ...
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15/09/20 | Publishing
The Libyans have taken the Mediterranean, in the Italian silence
The kidnapping of the 18 seafarers of Mazara del Vallo has brought the ten-year question of water to the fore again ...
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13/09/20 | Publishing
Have you read anywhere that in Italy there are one and a half million coronavirus positives? Ah, no?
In recent days, news that would have deserved much more attention has had little importance: let's reread it together, ...
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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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