15/11/21 | Analysis
Isis: the other virus
In recent years, the Western audience has been saturated with Middle Eastern terms, and drawn into a complex, dynamic, pervasive reality. The problem was not ...
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09/11/21 | Analysis
The two faces of the Turkish attitude
Last week we talked about the aggressive Turkish posture in foreign policy and, in particular, on the Levant Sea, where huge economic interests are converging ...
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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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05/11/21 | Report
The MSU in the KFOR mission
In my activity embedded with the Italian contingent of the NATO KFOR mission, I had the pleasure and honor of spending an entire day with the carabinieri of the MSU and shooting ...
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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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04/11/21 | Foreign Shorts
Tragicomic update on the Iranian "rescue" of the Vietnamese oil tanker
Stories always have a beginning and an end; then it can be more or less pleasant, well that's another matter. What is commonly missing, regardless of latitude ...
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03/11/21 | Foreign Shorts
Is Iran Thwarting US Attempt to Confiscate Oil Tanker in the Oman Sea?
The news this morning, from the Oman Sea, should lead to pressing concern. According to agency relaunches, US forces "would have" forced before (the conditional ...
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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 felt that the poorly managed US withdrawal from Afghanistan heralded one from Iraq (...
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27/10/21 | Foreign Shorts
The Ukrainian eastern front is warming up
On Tuesday, Kiev forces began using Turkish-sourced UCAVs, TB2 Bayraktar. Drones ...
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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" band ...
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21/10/21 | Analysis
NATO-Russia crisis: much ado about nothing
Politics and interests continue to run regardless of pandemics; it is the case of the rupture of relations between ...
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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 ...
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08/10/21 | Report
Reportage from Kosovo: interview with the commander of the Kfor mission, General Franco Federici
Currently the commander of the Kosovo Force - KFOR, a multinational contingent made up of 28 nations, is the ...
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08/10/21 | Foreign Shorts
Israel, the last bastion of the West
From the meetings held in the United States last August, the new Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has returned to his homeland ...
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07/10/21 | Report
Reportage from Kosovo: what future?
It is news a few days ago of tensions on the northern border of Kosovo, after Pristina banned entry into ...
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05/10/21 | Analysis
Iron and gas curtains
History, the real one, not that of counting the shells, has started to run everywhere, following the path ...
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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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Dear reader, For nine years Difesa Online has been fighting with its strength together with the help of some readers and sponsors. The editorial work is gigantic, carried out with passion and constancy BUT with ...
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Letters to the Director
Letter to Online Defense: "The Italian Army and combat training"
The Ukrainian crisis and the consequent possibility of the Italian Army being involved in a high-intensity conflict have made the problem of capabilities forcefully topical again ...
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