04/02/20 | Points of view
Green barracks and red balance sheets
The fluctuating 1% of GDP that Italy allocates to Defense must, as is known, compare with the 2% that other European countries allocate to their respective armed forces. It is therefore a reason to ...
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04/02/20 | Points of view
A normal "imperial" day with Erdogan. From fear ...
The first Monday of February of this 2020 for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was like many other days. Imperial. He stated that the Syrians of Assad will pay ...
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07/01/20 | Points of view
Yankee chaos in Iraq? Or not?
The situation in Iraq a few days after the killing of Qassem Soleimani seems to be evolving in an unfavorable direction for the USA. In Iraq, popular reaction to an act (perceived ...
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21/12/19 | Points of view
Salvini: from the middle finger to the Gregoretti question. But are we sure that the real problem is not the Rousseau platform?
While the social media is photographing a girl who, traveling by air next to a sleeping Salvini, takes a selfie with her middle finger on display, arousing ...
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23/11/19 | Points of view
Military ... the usual ordinary madness
The military world is the most complicated one can imagine; it is a hint that can already be grasped in the difference in the looks of those who have had stars for a long time, and of those ...
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14/11/19 | Points of view
Trump, America, Erdogan, NATO and Europe. Has a 70-year flirtation come to an end?
The 4 April 1949, representatives of 12 countries including most of North America and Western Europe signed the foundation document of the so-called "...
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10/11/19 | Points of view
1989-2019: thirty years later, still walls
Thirty years ago the Berlin Wall fell: perhaps the most famous among the symbols of the Cold War. It was built in one night, between 12 and 13 August 1961, to prevent ...
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09/11/19 | Points of view
The word to the readers: thirty years after the fall of the Berlin wall, what happened and what has changed
Dear readers, to understand what happened in that 1989, a singular year in which, according to many, "History seems to accelerate" and according to others, perhaps too optimistic, "the ...
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04/11/19 | Points of view
4 November 2019 and "Safe Roads"
The 4 November has always been an opportunity for civil society to give credit to the Armed Forces of ...
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03/11/19 | Points of view
Happy 4 November! Red Crosses and CMV not included ...
The news shows the 28 October 2019 date and, as usual, the circular was forwarded to the Commands of ...
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07/10/19 | Points of view
Demagogia e Bilanci (creative ...)
Once trembling for the return of the witches, now the fear has become more prosaic and diabolically more ...
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30/09/19 | Points of view
Greta's world: the historical ignorance of a professional alarmist
Please accompany Greta Thunberg to St. John of Newfoundland, Canada, and explain that when the Vikings from ...
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26/09/19 | Points of view
And if in the 2011 in Libya we had pulled out the p .. The story rewritten by Defense Online readers
Dear readers, beautiful things always end: like summer, so our "ucronica" column is coming to an end. Thanks...
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23/09/19 | Points of view
Panic in the military world
It is traditional to allow citizens, especially children, to board military vehicles on the occasion of ...
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12/09/19 | Points of view
Soldier you're serene
"Adopt all the necessary measures so that there are no inconveniences and the extent of facing up to ...
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10/09/19 | Points of view
8 September, Li Gobbi: "Dear Minister, the real resistance was not the communist one!"
On Sunday 8 September took place the annual ceremony to commemorate the valiant, but ineffective defense of Rome in ...
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02/09/19 | Points of view
The story rewritten by the readers of Difesa Online: the crisis of Sigonella (1985) and that of Bari (1991)
The end of the Cold War brings with it the advance of Arab-Islamic terrorism and the phenomenon of migration of ...
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31/08/19 | Points of view
SERMO CASTRENSIS
It is known that in the military world one indulges, especially when one wants to emphasize opposition to something or ...
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20/08/19 | Points of view
The dissenting complicity: an oxymoron for soldiers and magistrates
Open Arms, Sea Watch, Alan Kurdi ... the music doesn't change: nothing new under the sun and above the seas. Respecting a ...
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12/08/19 | Points of view
The Cuba crisis rewritten by Defense Online readers
In August, Formula One rests, the soccer championship begins later this month, even the bar talk about climate ...
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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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