04/05/22 | Letters to the Director
Letter to Online Defense: "The Italian Army and combat training"
The Ukrainian crisis and the consequent possibility of the involvement of the Italian Army in a high-intensity conflict have made the ...
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26/04/22 | Letters to the Director
Letter to Online Defense: "Putin in Ukraine like Mussolini against Greece"
The Russian attack on Ukraine is very reminiscent of the Italian aggression on Greece in October 1940. Putin, underestimating the Ukrainian forces, which were easily defeated ...
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13/04/22 | Letters to the Director
Letter to Online Defense: "To understand the Russian strategy it is enough to know the history of the T-14 Armata tank"
Good day. I read, always with pleasure, Online Defense. I take the liberty of offering a very small contribution, I hope it will be useful. Since February 24th, nothing else has been done on all the media ...
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07/04/22 | Letters to the Director
The weapons that the Army needs
The war in Ukraine highlighted the serious shortcomings of the Italian Army in the field of armaments supplied. It starts with the biggest gap in the aircraft industry ...
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05/04/22 | Letters to the Director
Born: obsolete alliance or very current?
I believe that the one announced in the title is a dilemma that all the military who for decades have trained, exercised and even participated in planned missions and ...
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28/03/22 | Letters to the Director
Letter to Online Defense: "The true history of Italian arms to Ukraine"
With regard to the transfer of armaments to the Ukrainian armed forces, it should be noted that it was a very convenient operation of emptying the deposits by the ...
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26/03/22 | Letters to the Director
Letter to Online Defense: "We are the usual"
Here we go again. Faced with the great moments in history, which often come unexpectedly, the Italian Army once again finds itself unprepared. It had already happened in 1915 and ...
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23/03/22 | Letters to the Director
In Ukraine the weapons of hypocrisy
Europe is not NATO and NATO is not Europe. But NATO is a military alliance that includes most of the European states, plus, of course, the United States ....
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22/03/22 | Letters to the Director
Russia-Ukraine and DIY analysts
The ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine sounds like an alarm clock for those who believed, in Italy and in Western Europe ...
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20/03/22 | Letters to the Director
European Paratroopers Association: delivered about 24 tons of medicines and basic necessities
The EPAID FOR UKRAINE humanitarian mission led by the European Paratroopers Association (EPA) continues unabated, the ...
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12/03/22 | Letters to the Director
Crisis Ukraine and world upside down: warmongering left and military setting the pace?
I have always found myself necessarily discussing and confronting complex historical and geopolitical issues. I've always been looking for ...
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06/03/22 | Letters to the Director
When Italian foreign policy is short-sighted and without strategic vision
We could be on the verge of a nuclear war in Ukraine (although I believe none of the actors involved are ...
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01/01/22 | Letters to the Director
Letter from a raider to Online Defense
In keeping with my long years spent in uniform, I have always thought that the soldier's role is more than a job ...
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30/10/21 | Letters to the Director
Pozzuolo del Friuli, history and memory of a victorious defeat
History or memory, this is the dilemma and you will want to apologize if we still abuse the acclaimed Shakespeare, but this question ...
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10/09/21 | Letters to the Director
September 8, 1943: a cat's point of view
On 8 September 43 I was already in the afterlife, just arrived together with the 54 sailors of the submarine Velella, sunk the ...
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20/08/21 | Letters to the Director
State schizophrenia
Probably the Covid 19 pandemic is releasing its dangerous effects in these days, even among those ...
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09/08/21 | Letters to the Director
From NO-VAX to NO-MORAL the step is short
The no-vax / no-moral juxtaposition, in the meaning attributed by the Anglo-Saxon military to "moral" as a synonym for "...
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14/07/21 | Letters to the Director
The "dual use" seen by the military soldier and the politician
It may happen that if you meet the gaze of a soldier engaged in an activity of the varied dual use range, a ...
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08/04/21 | Letters to the Director
The stars always in the thoughts and in the heart of politics and the press
"In matters of the army and the like we are notoriously poor and, when they call us to participate in missions to ...
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05/04/21 | Letters to the Director
The spy who came from the parfait
Good morning director. I mentioned a famous comedy parody movie from the 601sXNUMX, because the feeling that the case arouses ...
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Syria: Barter of War?
The news of the capture of Aleppo by what are called “rebel militias” has been a blow to the heart of anyone who knows Syria. There is no family in that country (unless...
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Letters to the Director
Letter to Difesa Online: "Are the chiefs of staff also censored now?"
Dear director, I have read the speech given by General Masiello to the 40th of the Lagunari and, remembering having read the Army Press Release (it dates back to 25 June, you were not...
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