09/09/21 | Foreign Shorts
Libya: clashes between militias reignite. Pacification still far away.
While Taliban power is consolidating in Afghanistan, the Mediterranean continues to be a disputed area, a sea of confrontation before meeting. One of the powder cases of (was) ...
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06/09/21 | Analysis
Twenty years later
No, it's not about the beautiful and famous central novel of Alexandre Dumas' trilogy about the Three Musketeers, but about understanding what has changed since that sad September 11th ...
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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 has been reported more or less rashly in recent days, it remains to ...
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02/09/21 | Foreign Shorts
Italian strategic interests in Niger
With the end of the mission in Afghanistan, Italy's strategic interests should increasingly focus on the African continent. In addition to the Libyan scenario, for us ...
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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 the political failure of the Euro-American West. On this, a few ...
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23/08/21 | Analysis
China to conquer Afghan rare earths
The recent events in Afghanistan, with the approximate and hasty American retreat, immediately highlighted China's interest in developing good relations with ...
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20/08/21 | Analysis
Invest in China? Quite a bad deal these days. Geopolitics says so ...
The Chinese tech giants have made a mistake: they have practiced or tolerated too long and much to the scorn of that country's government and public opinion ...
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20/08/21 | Foreign Shorts
The success of the Taliban worries Israel
The images on the news these days show the Taliban reconquest of Afghanistan, with Westerners busy evacuating diplomatic personnel and ...
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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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12/08/21 | Analysis
Big Pharma: that's who the pandemic was the goose that lays the golden eggs
At the request of some readers, we have decided to make an extremely concise analysis of the impact of the pandemic ...
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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 bridge of ...
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29/07/21 | Analysis
Tunisian mists
The Tunisian events require a series of quick reflections, but no less relevant for this. The Mediterranean is a ...
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28/07/21 | Analysis
The scarcity of fresh water threatens to unleash new tensions in the Persian Gulf and Central Asia
The great heat of these summer days has again attracted the attention of the media on the theme of the ever-diminishing ...
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26/07/21 | Analysis
It's coming Rome. The delta variant is going to make us like in the UK
The delta variant crisis of Sars-Cov-2 in Italy began about 10 days ago: until the end of the first decade ...
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26/07/21 | Analysis
Afghan butterflies and Indo-Pacific hurricanes
It is not true, as many say, that one can bury the past. The past clings with its claws to the present1 ...
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15/07/21 | Analysis
Conflict in Tigray and the Horn of Africa. Where the area matters more than the outcome
In Ethiopia the Tigrayans, led by the People's Liberation Front of Tigray (TPLF) take back the capital Macallè, and ...
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13/07/21 | Analysis
China is close
If the American Manifest Destiny of 1840 were not to be regarded as mere theory, it would be politically wise ...
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Events
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Publishing
Online Defense fights. But he (urgently) needs your help!
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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