08/04/19 | History
70 years of NATO: protection for Europe or American occupation?
The 17 March 1948, Britain, France, Holland, Luxembourg and Belgium, signed a multilateral treaty in Brussels aimed at countering the possibility of a revival ...
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26/03/19 | History
Attack on the Suda Bay: 78 years ago the feat of the men of the 10 ^ Flotilla MAS
The feat of Suda Bay has been defined by historians as a perfect, almost mathematical action, carried out with a unique synchronism by six men who, with extraordinary ...
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24/03/19 | History
The Kosovo war. Twenty years since the NATO attack on Serbia
Twenty years ago the first conflict led by the Atlantic Alliance since its foundation began. Symptomatic is the fact that the events in the Balkans occur at the end of ...
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11/03/19 | History
The Italian air forces and the fall of Colonel Gaddafi
When Italian politicians talk about the phenomenon of uncontrolled migratory flows from the coasts of Libya, they often refer to it as a multiplier event of ...
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21/02/19 | History
1992: The strange case of the Russian submarine that knocked out an American submarine
There are days that pass quickly without most people almost realizing it; however, for some, those same days can instead mark the ...
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15/02/19 | History
The Monroe Doctrine: America (Latin) to Americans (from the North)
In the XNUMXth century, the American colonizing driving force ran parallel to the concomitant decay of the Spanish Empire, and the national movements that were emerging ...
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10/02/19 | History
Night between 10 and 11 February 1918: the "mockery of Buccari"
After the forcing of Trieste, and the sinking of the battleship Wien, at the beginning of 1918 it was decided to carry out a new forcing operation, even more daring, by ...
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18/12/18 | History
December 18, 1941, the Night of Alexandria, a legendary feat
December 18, 1941 - Eastern Mediterranean - 18.40 pm, the Italian submarine Scirè arrived at the established point, 1,3 miles by 356 ° from the port's west pier light ...
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13/12/18 | History
13 December 1941: Boss Clash Bon
At the end of the 1941, the situation in North Africa was disastrous and the British forces were advancing under ...
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02/12/18 | History
The Euromissiles and the INF treaty
During the mid-twentieth century 60, with the establishment of a strategic nuclear parity between the two ...
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19/11/18 | History
The Arab revolt of the 1916: the oriental chaos
On the eve of the Great War, the Middle East was an integral part of the now decadent Ottoman Empire, ...
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19/11/18 | History
Operation Trapani (1971): when Italy wanted to overthrow Gaddafi
In the 1971, Italy planned a military operation (the first on a strategic level since the end of the Second War ...
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08/11/18 | History
Italian wars in post-war conflicts: the Eritrean MB339 in the border war with Ethiopia
The MB-339 was immediately a good commercial success for its manufacturer Aermacchi. From the entry into service ...
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07/11/18 | History
Light explorers class Navigators
It was the last explorer of the Royal Navy, so it closed with this series of ships, the most numerous, the ...
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20/10/18 | History
Navarino, the last great battle of the sailing navy
The naval battle of Navarino was fought in the waters of the port of the Peloponnese, in the wide gulf of the Peloponnese ...
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17/10/18 | History
War of the Kippur: the Egyptian commandos
At 14.15 6 1973 October, Egyptian assault groups launch towards the west bank of the Channel of ...
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16/10/18 | History
The armed pontoons of the Regia Marina
When the First World War broke out, the Regia Marina had the task mainly in the Adriatic, to maintain the ...
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21/09/18 | History
The secret services in Ancient Rome
The fate of any armed conflict has always been in the hands of intelligence, since Roman times that ...
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15/09/18 | History
Einsatzgruppen: Himmler's death squads
The Einsatzgruppen, were operational units, special departments, composed of men of the SS and the police, who operated ...
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07/09/18 | History
The truth about Martin Bormann: a spy in Moscow's service?
What happened to the Nazi leaders who escaped the Nuremberg trial? It could be included among the questions ...
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The Last Ethnic Cleansing: Nagorno Karabakh
At the end of September this month, it will be one year since the exodus of the Armenian population expelled by the armed forces of Azerbaijan with the support of Turkey in Nagorno Karabakh (this is...
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Letters to the Director
Letter to Difesa Online: "Are the chiefs of staff also censored now?"
Dear director, I have read the speech given by General Masiello to the 40th of the Lagunari and, remembering having read the Army Press Release (it dates back to 25 June, you were not...
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