14/02/23 | Military world
Iran's Mig-29s
In the past it has been said several times that, even today, although 44 years have passed since the Islamic Revolution that dethroned Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the backbone...
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09/02/23 | Military world
How Wagner fights Bakhmut: frontal assault theory in 2023
In the battle of Bakhmut a tactical situation is reappearing which was already extensively analyzed by theorists and general staffs during the First World War: the frontal assault...
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08/02/23 | Military world
The renewal of the Japanese Navy
The European perception of the geopolitical situation in the Far East in recent decades has been predominantly polarized by China's economic and military growth. A...
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07/02/23 | Military world
Iran's Mig-21s, F-6s and F-7s (part two)
In the first part of this analysis we talked about how Iran had once become interested in Mig-21s and F-6s and how this interest had ended in nothing...
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03/02/23 | Military world
Iran's Mig-21s, F-6s and F-7s (part one)
Previously we had already talked about the Iranian Air Force (IRIAF) and how one of their characteristics that most strike external observers is the extreme ...
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02/02/23 | Military world
BARS volunteers. Putin's "cannon fodder".
In the second half of January 2023, the influx of reservists recruited with the "...
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01/02/23 | Ocean4Future
Naval mines as a defensive barrier of Taiwan: a not so crazy hypothesis
At the end of World War II, the Americans launched Operation Starvation, a mine operation conducted by the United States Army Air Forces to interrupt the…
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30/01/23 | Military world
Nothing new on the Western Front. And on the Eastern one?
On January 10, 2023, almost a year after Russia invaded Ukraine, Colonel General Alexander Lapin was appointed Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces...
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27/01/23 | Military world
The Function of Time in the Ukrainian War and German Duplicity
The German Leopard 2 tank is one of the military vehicles requested by Ukraine to face the Russian offensive...
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26/01/23 | Ocean4Future
Italy's Mediterranean route
Giorgia Meloni's first mission to Algeria has just ended, aiming to transform Italy into the hub...
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24/01/23 | Military world
Sukhoi Su-35S for Iran?
On January 15, 2023, the Iranian news agency Tasnim news published an apparently important and…
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24/01/23 | Military world
France announces an increase in defense spending
"While war is changing, France has and will have armies ready for the dangers of the century", these are the words of…
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22/01/23 | Military world
Other than “let's free the Leopards”… let's free (us) the Aries!
Germany stubbornly does not want to deprive itself of its tanks. Despite weeks of the campaign "Let's free the...
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20/01/23 | Ocean4Future
BETASOM base preparations to operate in the Western Atlantic (part two)
In the new operational environment of the Atlantic, the attack on enemy traffic, obviously no longer bound to the tactics of...
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17/01/23 | Ocean4Future
BETASOM's base preparations to operate in the Western Atlantic (part one)
The order of 17 January 1941 to suspend the demobilization of the Bordeaux base and to cancel the return of the...
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16/01/23 | Military world
Impact of the war in Ukraine and tensions in Kosovo: Russian soft power
As international attention has been drawn to the war in Ukraine, tensions have risen in the Balkans…
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28/12/22 | Military world
China's military plans to use Artificial Intelligence
On October 16, 2022, Chinese President Xi Jinping presented a report to the 20th National Congress of the Party...
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28/12/22 | Military world
Will the Kremlin start deploying more sophisticated weapons systems in Ukraine?
In recent years, Russia has shown the West its technological advances in the military field through the…
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27/12/22 | Means
"Armed Forces and the Road Transport Academy": opportunities and advice for furloughed workers
Are there really no drivers? The answer must take into consideration two aspects of the profession: with how much...
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24/12/22 | Military world
Japan's grand rearmament plan
On December 16th, with a statement that had actually already been in the air for some time, the Japanese Prime Minister Fumio...
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ReArm Europe/Readiness 2030? Deterrence Does Not Come From an Arsenal
In the twentieth century, people died for their country or their freedom. Or at least, that was what was believed. In the First World War, millions of young people marched to their deaths convinced they were defending the national honor. In...
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Letters to the Director
Letter to Difesa Online: "The European Army Remains a Mirage"
Dear Director, during my now forty-year military career I have often found myself working side by side with military personnel from other nations, NATO and otherwise, in high-level operational contexts and...
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