26/02/22 | Points of view
Can we afford the "luxury" of pacifism in wartime?
"A pacifist is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat it last": these are the words spoken in 1954 by Winston Churchill in commenting on the policy of ...
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21/02/22 | Points of view
The unsustainable hypocrisy of "safeguarding territorial integrity"
"The territorial integrity of Ukraine must be safeguarded!", "If the territorial integrity of Ukraine is violated, Russia will face very severe consequences" ....
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14/02/22 | Points of view
Sanremo: a lost opportunity in the war against the mafia?
Yes, you read that right: in Sanremo, an opportunity was lost, in the war against the mafias? You will come out of the chorus (it is appropriate to say it), but what Saviano, guest said ...
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01/02/22 | Points of view
Ukraine teaches the menga rule: whoever has (or can have) nuclear weapons should keep them!
History relates that two countries were politely obliged to give up their nuclear program, which had already started, for reasons of expediency: Germany and South Africa; while others ...
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19/01/22 | Points of view
The President of the Republic: his (enormous) powers and an eye on the (many) candidates
Next week the two chambers and the representatives of the regions will meet in the hemicycle of the Montecitorio palace to elect not a notary, but a personality, who ...
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14/01/22 | Points of view
The Army is invoked to guarantee mobility. But...
The request comes from the president of ASSOUTENTI Furio Truzzi, after the new anti-pandemic restrictions that are decimating the sector of public services even more, already severely ...
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02/12/21 | Points of view
Pucciarelli: maximum attention to choices on OTO-Melara and Wass in order not to reduce them to mere market maneuvers
"In renewing, relaunching it, my invitation to responsible harmony and effective synergy between all the players involved in the management of crucial issues such as the choices in ...
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26/11/21 | Points of view
State clearance sales
For some weeks there have been news regarding the possible sale of Oto Melara and WASS, now incorporated in Leonardo's defense division, to Fincantieri (at best ...
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23/11/21 | Points of view
The NoVax as modern defeatists?
The experience of a war touches a country in all its components: the Armed Forces and the reserve, logistics and ...
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15/11/21 | Points of view
Last and Alpha remember Nassiriya: their denunciation
Last Friday was celebrated the Day of Remembrance of the military and civilian fallen in international missions for ...
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23/09/21 | Points of view
The War on Covid 19 and the deserters
Not even a distracted observer can escape the "military" guise gradually assumed by the vaccination campaign ....
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17/09/21 | Points of view
The story to scale
It often happens that in the career of military historians, but not only, there is a past linked to the game with toy soldiers ...
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06/09/21 | Points of view
Afghan refugees: does this welcome represent us?
“I adapt, I resist, for me there are no problems. But if my children ask me for food, what can I tell them ...
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19/08/21 | Points of view
Hammer and sickle boulevard
If we wanted to give an idea of the passage of time and the events that have characterized it, we could use a ...
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10/08/21 | Points of view
Dark evil
On a Friday morning like many others, the news of the umpteenth suicide of a boy with stars; we don't know the ...
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03/08/21 | Points of view
Fighting summer fires with the help of technology
These days, like every year, the news of runaway fires, often malicious, mercilessly destroying the ...
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29/06/21 | Points of view
Di Maio anti-Isis champion. Laugh so as not to cry ...
The threat from the Islamic State “is particularly alarming on the African continent, specifically in the region ...
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23/06/21 | Points of view
Do I shoot or don't I shoot?
Last Sunday near the Termini station the policemen had to face one of the most ...
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02/06/21 | Points of view
A reflection on the changing world: the meaning of the celebrations of the Republic Day and why they must be maintained
Italy is a great nation that finds its own identity in its history and culture that makes us all Italians. This ...
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25/05/21 | Points of view
Show your muscles
History teaches that when a nation flexes its muscles, barring sensational bluffs, the first to be defeated is ...
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Events
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Publishing
Faces and U-turns. Ukraine between Holiness and Prostitution
From the Book of Sirach Sir 27,5-8 (NV) [gr. 27,4-7] When a sieve is shaken, the refuse remains; so when a man argues, the defects are revealed. The potter's vessels are tested by the...
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Letters to the Director
Letter to Difesa Online: "Save the Navy!"
Dear Director, We kindly ask you to publish this letter, which is as open as it is heartfelt and truthful, concerning the need to “save” the Navy from a situation...
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