30/08/22 | Points of view
Use of the umbrella by the military of the Army and Military Organizational Culture
The umbrella, which has always been banned in the military, is now prescribed by a special circular1, which regulates its use according to the situation and the uniform worn. And maybe...
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19/08/22 | Points of view
Contracts clauses and rip-offs (when we sold the Trevi fountain ..)
It is destiny that empires, when they are in the way, reach out to the - apparently - most unthinkable points; they are genetically imperial entities, even though the appellations are ...
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07/08/22 | Points of view
Taiwan: has the US really "played with fire"?
The media tell us about an Indo-Pacific in turmoil after the "go-don't go-go" visit of the speaker of the US House in Taiwan. Now, even without nourishing particular ...
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11/07/22 | Points of view
Russian warehouses and bases on fire: how modern weapons in Ukraine changed the rules of the game
Take a good look at the map and the photos at the bottom of the article: the first shows what happened in the last three weeks in the locations indicated on the map of Ukraine. There...
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08/07/22 | Points of view
The Russians lost nearly 50 million worth of systems in seconds. How is it possible?
The steppes of Donbass, the barren coasts of Snake Island, the muddy terrain of Kherson - what do they have in common? They were destroyed in these very different places and ...
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05/07/22 | Points of view
Military service and empowerment: an expensive but useful association?
How many times have we heard phrases such as "Some young people would need military service" or more colorful versions of them such as "If he had taken some kick in the ass as a military ...
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29/06/22 | Points of view
A proposal to give a peaceful push to the Lukashenko regime, the last Soviet dictator in Europe
Who remembers the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989? A few months earlier, Honecker had predicted in January of the same year that the wall's existence would be ...
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28/06/22 | Points of view
They do not bring military advantages: let's try to understand why the Russian attacks on civilians
When you use a weapon or apply a tactic in war, you do it for one reason only: it brings you advantages in winning or, if you are in a bad way, in containing the enemy better. This is the ...
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25/06/22 | Points of view
A paparazzi dinner in Georgetown reveals the gravity of the crisis between Russia and the USA
Put an evening in Georgetown, near the American capital, at the prestigious Italian restaurant Milan. Put to a ...
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21/06/22 | Points of view
The "paradox of war": in reality, it was Poland that started a world war ...
World War II? The Poles blew it up in 1939: Austrians and Czechoslovakians had not succeeded ...
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15/06/22 | Points of view
How information works in wartime
Readers often ask us why Online Defense does not have, so to speak, a line on the war in Ukraine, but offers ...
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10/06/22 | Points of view
Coup d'etat in Moscow: a bet with death (of the coup leaders or Putin)
You read the newspapers and you have the impression that sooner or later the Russian president will leave us - it is appropriate to say - in ...
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03/06/22 | Points of view
One hundred days of war in Ukraine have already passed. Let's talk about it by looking at three (plus one) symbol photos
Today 3 June has arrived what seemed impossible on 24 February: the XNUMXth day of the war of ...
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03/06/22 | Points of view
The progress of the war in Ukraine according to Mark Galeotti
The whole world knows the so-called "Gerasimov Doctrine" thanks to Mark Galeotti, one of the world's leading experts ...
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30/05/22 | Points of view
Is Russia making a mess? Is Ukraine Losing? Let's take stock of the war
Where were we? Not even a week after my last article on the progress of the war, it seems that the media ...
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27/05/22 | Points of view
A piece of paper (or a phone call) would be enough against the inhumanity of war
Take a good look at this piece of paper: it is one of the thousands of flyers that the Turkish air force has rained down in the ...
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26/05/22 | Points of view
Mothballed tanks and white-haired recruits: not exactly a war for young people!
The war is taking a - so to speak - vintage turn. A few days ago the news of a tank from ...
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25/05/22 | Points of view
Libya: should Italy return to 11?
The international situation is monopolized by the war in Ukraine, while the EU countries seek solutions ...
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24/05/22 | Points of view
The Ukrainian War of Online Defense: the richness of the different perspectives
When I read some comments to the articles we publish on the initial Ukrainian "crisis" and subsequent "war", I am ...
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23/05/22 | Points of view
Ukraine: better dishonor or war?
The solution to the Ukrainian problem, which has now been achieved, is, in my opinion, only the prelude to a more ...
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Events
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Publishing
Army Calendars: “With your head held high”, “With your head down” or even “CalendEgreche”?
Yesterday morning the presentation of the "Calendar Army 2023" took place, this year entitled "A head held high ... from Porta San Paolo to Mignano Monte Lungo the 98 days that led to the rescue". In the'...
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Letters to the Director
The lessons of the war in Ukraine
Although the war in Ukraine is still ongoing and the propaganda of the opposing sides manages to hide many truths, some lessons of an operational nature can already be drawn. In...
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