The "continuation of politics by other means"
In the 1808, the Prussian general Carl von Clausewitz wrote in the notes of what would become his main intellectual legacy, the book entitled "Della ...
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The summer of online defense: the reader struggling with the crisis in Cuba
The two crises in Berlin, the Korean War, the Greek Civil War, the Viet Nam War: the historical period called the Cold War (1947-1991) offered the world peaks ...
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Mussolini and the Second World War: the story rewritten by readers
If you've wondered how Benito Mussolini would have ended up if he hadn't made the crockery to mimic Adolf Hitler, look at what happened to Francisco Franco and Antonio ...
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The summer of online defense: the reader in the role of Mussolini
I think the next subject is even more interesting: the reader imagines putting himself in the shoes of Benito Mussolini on his return from the Munich conference of 29-30 September ...
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Ethics should be valued between self-defense and non-verbal communication: a knife in the middle!
In a society that is more and more sluggish, fast, compulsive and social, human beings are losing the privilege of confrontation and criticism to the detriment of effectiveness and ...
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Contemporary history rewritten by readers: the first part of the 20th century
Here are the first news stories of the summer 2019! Thanks to the readers for the enthusiasm with which they responded to such a difficult topic. I have selected only one scenario for each hypothesis ....
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TEATRO ITALIA: yet another act of a tragic farce
Characters and interpreters. The victim: Mario Cerciello Rega, thirty-five year old vice-sergeant of the carabinieri, just returned to the capital to resume the interrupted service ...
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Anger
The news itself is meager: carabiniere killed on duty. It is the first? No, absolutely, it is the last of a long line of SOLDIERS for whom the war is perennial, it is daily ...
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Teaching Personal Defense or Teaching Personal Defense Prevention?
In the Mare Magnum of the offer of Personal Defense courses, the time has come to instill a few pills of wisdom ...
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Apollo 11, 20-21 July 1969: the facts, the present and the future of space missions according to Defense Online readers
There is a one-day difference, for Europeans, between the time of the moon landing of the Apollo 11 lunar module with a ...
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Mediocrity and charisma
This is the news reported on February 16 by London-based Times: "Two royal marines of his majesty's army, ...
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Salvini shot down by friendly fire. But is he really the "man" of Moscow?
Police Minister: in the nineteenth century the owner of the Interior was called. I wonder if Matteo Salvini, always ...
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Readers read: the great generals (and admirals) between the end of the nineteenth century and the collapse of the Berlin Wall
The period left to the analysis of readers is, apart from a thirty years of colonial age, what historians call ...
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Conscientious or outlawed objectors?
With the Sea Watch 3 case, the dilemma of whether to exercise the objection ...
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Does Defense Need Help? The Government (in threesome with the PD), meanwhile, thinks of the sex shops ...
Here is what growth they were talking about! And to think that we, so candid, had thought of economic development: instead, the ...
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Depleted Uranium: flag of the Movement lowered by its own ministers?
Read the "Report on the state of health of the Italian military and civilian personnel" presented the 10 last May at ...
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Salvini brings a message from Uncle Sam. For Mattarella, not for Di Maio
Repubblica claims that the Trump administration, through the mouth of state secretary Mike Pompeo, asked Matteo ...
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Readers speak about the challenges for the defense world: we need to intervene before it is too late
My countryman, great historian and journalist Giovanni Spadolini became Minister of Defense - where today we have ...
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Power wears ... those who have it, in Italy
I read the nice article by Gino Lanzara on Giulio Andreotti (read) and a series of thoughts came to mind ...
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The thought of Dante on Politics, Armed Forces, Judiciary and Church in Italy
A Head of State praising the Navy emphasizing the alleged prestige that would come to Italy for ...
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