17/05/23 | Points of view
Power games in the Kremlin
As the war in Ukraine continues, the leadership of Vladimir Putin and the future of his regime seem increasingly inextricably linked to the outcome of the clash. Behind a...
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13/03/23 | Points of view
The hearing of General Portolano: a comment
General Luciano Portolano, general secretary of defense and national armaments director, held a hearing at the foreign affairs and defense commissions of ...
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28/12/22 | Points of view
The different ways of dealing with immigration
A few days ago, the United Kingdom's High Court concluded that the plan devised by the government for the transfer of asylum seekers to Rwanda is lawful. The decision made...
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27/11/22 | Points of view
Di Maio sent EU to Gulf? We're not kidding...
I would like to share some reflections with the readers of Difesa Online following the article published on November 24 by the UAE newspaper The National, the most ...
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14/11/22 | Points of view
The dignity for a medal?
In these hours, the decision of general (ris) Antonino Li Gobbi, former commander of the army genius, stands out on all the press organs, to want to return to the State ...
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13/11/22 | Points of view
"Who is the enemy?"
"Who is the enemy?", This is the translated title of the last work I am reading: "Qui est l'ennemi?", Published by Nouveau Monde, first annual volume of the "Center de recherche 451", ...
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13/10/22 | Points of view
At what point is the night
No, this is not the novel by Fruttero and Lucentini, a beautiful and lucky novel that also inspired a television series starring Marcello Mastroianni. It deals with,...
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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; I am...
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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 visit "I go-I don't go-I go" by the speaker of the Chamber ...
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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 portrays what happened in the last three ...
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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 they have in common ...
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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 their more ...
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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 ...
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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 gives you an advantage in winning or, if ...
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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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Events
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Publishing
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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