30/07/21 | Report
Afghan collaborators launch the latest appeals to the Italian government. Are we doing something or do we leave it to the Taliban?
“Last night was a devastating night. Five hundred Taliban attacked the city. They reached the Malan Bridge 5 kilometers southwest of Herat. Women and children are ...
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19/06/19 | Report
Donbass, the "Somme" of the 21st century at the gates of Europe
Four years have passed since I first set foot in Donetsk. At the time the city looked spooky. Of the approximately two million inhabitants there were little more than ...
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16/06/19 | Report
NATO, 20 years in Kosovo with the KFOR mission
Bill Clinton was also in Pristina, the capital of Kosovo, together with former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and then NATO commander Wesley Clark, last June 12, ...
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10/10/18 | Report
Reportage Afghanistan: gen. Panizzi, "Training security forces is one of the best weapons to combat terrorism"
"This experience in Afghanistan is a complex and human professional challenge, unique, certainly difficult, but above all exciting. For our officers, non-commissioned officers and ...
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09/10/18 | Report
Reportage Afghanistan: focus on Herat
Herat is the most peaceful part of Afghanistan. To the west of the country, on the border with Iran, here is the bulk of the Italian contingent, connected with the command of Kabul and ...
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06/10/18 | Report
Reportage Afghanistan: Ambassador Cantone, "Pacifying Afghanistan is in everyone's interest ..."
“I have been in Kabul for two and a half years. A period that allowed me to further deepen my knowledge of this fascinating and complex country. Unfortunately the current ...
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24/09/18 | Report
Reportage Afghanistan: gen. Cardea, "Pacifying also means stabilizing the borders ..."
"With regard to the resolution of the conflict in Afghanistan, regional actors are numerous, with varied agendas and interests, in some cases even diverging from each other ....
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12/09/18 | Report
Reportage Afghanistan: Cripwell, "We need every single soldier now, not even one less ..."
"My job as vice commander of HQ Resolute Support in Afghanistan alternates between Italians and Britons. As a deputy commander, my task consists of three ...
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03/09/18 | Report
Reportage Afghanistan: Nicholson, "As a NATO general, I can tell you that it was an honor to command the Italian soldiers ..."
"I thank the Italian Armed Forces: Italian soldiers bring not only their tradition, which for centuries has formed ...
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27/08/18 | Report
Donbass: Journey into the land of black diamonds
If you look for the word "anthracite" on the internet the first item you come across is that of Wikipedia that refers to ...
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24/08/18 | Report
Reportage Somalia: Ibrahim, the aeronautical Somali colonel of Pozzuoli
"I'm aeronautical. I studied at the Academy of Pozzuoli in the 1989 as an official pilot student and I was well 4 years ...
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23/08/18 | Report
Reportage Somalia: EUTM-S, the CIMIC cell
Appointment to the 7 in the morning. Let's go and visit a fire brigade barracks, a clinic dedicated to the care of ...
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20/08/18 | Report
Reportage Somalia: EUTM-S and the Somali Army - "... we were African Italians and we were proud of it!"
“We had planned an exercise for today. She will do it too, even if she just arrived. So he immediately realizes ...
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06/08/18 | Report
Reportage Somalia: the Italian “lead”, interview with the new commander of the EUTM-S
"For me it is the first time both in Somalia and in a European context. Previously, the missions I played were ...
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29/12/17 | Report
Donetsk Report: the coming year
The city of Donetsk is getting ready for the party. Instead of celebrating Christmas, the December 25 in these parts ...
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23/05/17 | Report
A look at Istanbul
A city that is apparently the one for ever, with its multicultural impression that makes it the spiritual bridge, ...
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29/04/17 | Report
Crisis in Macedonia: Western hypocrisy in the Balkans fire
The first issue was born in the 1991, at the very moment when Macedonia declared independence. Greece does not ...
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27/03/17 | Report
Deep France: the silent country where the European Union is already dead (or never born)
Speaking of France, in the collective iconography often stands Paris. In fact Paris represents the lumiere of ...
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24/03/17 | Report
Donbass, the war that does not exist: the Promzona and the women of the east
It's still early in the morning when the phone starts to ring: the long-awaited call is finally ...
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20/03/17 | Report
Donbass, the war that does not exist: "in the trenches!"
The departure is delayed several times due to the continuous shelling of Ukrainian artillery: our safety ...
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Events
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The Golpe Figliuolo
The appointment of a general to "patch up" the inability to manage a complex situation has created and still today creates confusion, controversy and - perhaps worse - swordplay of the ...
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Letters to the Director
The "dual use" seen by the military soldier and the politician
It may happen that by meeting the gaze of a soldier engaged in an activity of the varied dual use range, an Italian citizen is taken by the curiosity to find out what is behind that ...
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