06/11/21 | Analysis
Saudi Arabia and Iran: the strange couple
The balance of power is not a geopolitical element compatible with the Persian Gulf area; what were the two Middle Eastern pillars of Soviet Nixon containment, ...
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04/11/21 | Analysis
4 November: national holiday and the geopolitics of the Italians
The Italians, understood as a national community, do not have a geopolitical-strategic self-awareness and the national holiday of November 4th, the “Day of National Unity and ...
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02/11/21 | Analysis
The aggressive Turkish maritime policy destabilizes the Mediterranean
The recent Turkish threats of expulsion of ten Ambassadors1, "guilty" of having signed an appeal for the release of Osman Kavala, have brought back to the attention of the media ...
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29/10/21 | Analysis
How much (not) the American withdrawal from Afghanistan weighs in Arab perception
Many commentators have felt that the poorly managed US withdrawal from Afghanistan was a prelude to one from Iraq (another country invaded by Americans, a symbol of how the ...
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25/10/21 | Analysis
Russia has a strategic vision for the Black Sea, the West does not
In the 1s, Nicholas John Spykman developed the concept of "rimland" XNUMX the "semipermeable" maritime and coastal strip that delimits the island-world and that is ...
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21/10/21 | Analysis
NATO-Russia crisis: much ado about nothing
Politics and interests continue to run regardless of pandemics; this is the case of the rupture of relations between NATO and Russia, an event that would have displaced the same ...
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18/10/21 | Analysis
Indo Pacific: war does not wait
History can be viewed from multiple angles; if for Churchill August 1948 marks, losing India, the beginning of the British historical-political downsizing, for ...
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05/10/21 | Analysis
Iron and gas curtains
History, the real one, not that of the case count, has started to run everywhere, following the fluorescent path of the power projections; the Kremlin redesigns ...
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22/09/21 | Analysis
Let me explain why Xi Jinping has not left China for 600 days
On March 22, 2013, the era of Xi Jinping, recently elected secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), had just begun ...
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15/09/21 | Analysis
In the name of the fathers
On September 11, 2001, the world changed forever. However in these days when the international community ...
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11/09/21 | Analysis
Requiem for the land of the West
The flow of history is constant, regardless of more or less deterministic cyclicality or unprecedented forms of ...
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06/09/21 | Analysis
Twenty years later
No, this is not the beautiful and famous central novel of Alexandre Dumas' trilogy about the three musketeers, but ...
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06/09/21 | Analysis
Afghanistan: game over?
As a Pashtun1 adage goes, there are those who have time and who only have a watch to check it. Net of what it is ...
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26/08/21 | Analysis
State Building and Army Building: notes on the failure of Western politics in Afghanistan
The twenty-year war in Afghanistan that ended with the reconquest of the country by the Taliban was a failure ...
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23/08/21 | Analysis
China to conquer Afghan rare earths
Recent events in Afghanistan, with the approximate and hasty American retreat, have highlighted since ...
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20/08/21 | Analysis
Invest in China? Quite a bad deal these days. Geopolitics says so ...
Chinese tech giants have taken a misstep: they have practiced or tolerated too long and with great ...
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19/08/21 | Analysis
The coup in Moscow: the "rebel" general who saved Russia and the world
We agree with Leo Tolstoy according to whom “there are heroes who are entirely dedicated to their mission and who ...
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16/08/21 | Analysis
Good bye Afghanistan: the lack of understanding of the Afghan system as the cause of the defeat of the Coalition
Fifty-three (+1, ndd) is the number of Italians who died in the Afghan conflict. Six hundred and fifty-one is the number of ...
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15/08/21 | Analysis
Vietnam Afghan
Tarinkot, Kandahar, Lashkargah, Herat, Feroz Koh, Qala-e-Nau, Ghazni, Fayzabad, Aybak, Zaranj, Sheberghan, Kunduz, Pul -...
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15/08/21 | Analysis
The future of Afghanistan? Chinese!
These days crocodile tears are wasted in relation to the sad fate of the Afghans, in a country that ...
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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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