
11/12/17 | History
Saddam's flash war in the 1980: the beginning of the conflict and the first battles
After a long series of border skirmishes that had significantly contributed to raising the tension between the two countries, Saddam Hussein decided to go on the offensive, ...
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11/12/17 | History
Operation Bastille, the Rhodesian Entebbe
The situation in Rhodesia - in 1980 it will take the name of Zimbabwe - at Easter 1979, was extremely critical. Military operations had significantly intensified in ...
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09/12/17 | History
The battle of Tapso
The battle of Tapso was a military clash, occurred on 7 February of 46 ac (according to the Gregorian calendar), among the legions led by Gaius Julius Caesar and the remaining ...
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05/12/17 | History
Saddam's flash war in the 1980: the Iranian arsenal
In September 1980, the Iranian armed forces were only a shadow of what were the former imperial armies of the Shah. Only half of the arsenal was usable and good ...
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29/11/17 | History
SAS in the Sultanate of Oman
The conflicts resulting from the rapid disintegration of colonial empires in the immediate post-war period still represent a valid model for understanding current scenarios ...
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28/11/17 | History
Saddam's war in 1980: the historical-political premise and the Iraqi arsenal
The Middle Eastern area has always been at the center of numerous disputes. It still is with the various Iraqi, Syrian and Yemeni conflicts. Just to name a few .... It was, ...
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08/11/17 | History
The Navy remembers the engineer Caproni
Countess Maria Fede Caproni di Taliedo, daughter of the illustrious Giovanni Battista Caproni, aeronautical engineer, entrepreneur and true pioneer of the world, passed away at the age of 84 ...
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07/11/17 | History
The Navy of the Revolution
The Soviet Navy was born on the remains of the old Russian Imperial Navy which had been almost completely destroyed during the 1917 Revolution and the civil war. In...
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06/11/17 | History
Secret documents tell the true story of Marshal Tito
Eight May 1980 in Belgrade on the day of the last greeting to the Yugoslav leader were present the heads of state of 31 ...
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25/10/17 | History
The Battle of Maiwand
Western military history books are rich in heroic battles won but tend to give less emphasis ...
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19/10/17 | History
North Korea and nuclear (3 / 3): strength relations between the powers in the area
In light of the previous articles, we have seen the ideological, pragmatic motivations and the very development of the ...
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17/10/17 | History
North Korea and nuclear (2 / 3): the historical development of the North Korean nuclear program
The North Korean nuclear program began in the early years of 60 when an energy research complex was set up ...
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16/10/17 | History
North Korea and nuclear (1 / 3): ideological and historical premise
North Korea has come under the attention of the international spotlight for the intensification of its ...
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10/10/17 | History
The KGB in the 80s
For the duration of the Cold War until the fall of the Berlin Wall, the secret services of the Soviet Union ...
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09/10/17 | History
The Battle of Nassiryah Bridges: The First Offensive of the Italian Army Since World War II
On April 6, 2004, the Italian contingent in Iraq - in the framework of the Ancient Babylon operation that began the year ...
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05/10/17 | History
The Atlantean Submarines of Betasom
Betasom is the codename of the Atlantic base of the Italian submarines in Bordeaux, World War II ...
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28/09/17 | History
The strange case of Britisches Freikorps
Berlin 20 April 1944, on the day of the fifty-fifth birthday of the Fuhrer for the first time a small ...
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28/09/17 | History
A regiment called "SAN MARCO"
Along the Adriatic coast, the Royal Navy had equipped trains armed with cannons disassembled from minor ships that ...
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26/09/17 | History
The camouflage 'Dazzle': a painter and his artwork ... in the wars!
If you can't hide an aircraft carrier from 30,000 tons that it crosses in the middle of the Atlantic, at least try ...
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18/09/17 | History
Markov, the Bulgarian dissident poisoned with the ricin
The history of the dissident who dared to challenge the Bulgarian communist party has not yet been fully written; in the 2008 the ...
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