05/02/18  |  History
Italian wings in post-war conflicts: the South African MB326 in the "Bush war"
Put into service in the early 60s, the MB326 of the then Aermacchi immediately found good success in terms of sales abroad due to its undoubted ...
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27/01/18  |  History
SAS, Operation Nimrod: London 1980
It is the late afternoon of a bank holiday Monday when, at number 16 of Princes Gate, the seat of the Iranian embassy in London, some explosions and the crackling of automatic weapons ...
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24/01/18  |  History
A hero of everyday life. A life at the service of the country. The adm. Vittorio Patrelli Campagnano
"Teacher, never professor, never distant or isolated in the rigid confines of his doctrine; essential teacher, simple, present, attentive, coherent, authoritative and human". It was a "...
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22/01/18  |  History
1956, Operation Musketeer: the last colonial enterprise of the Europeans
At the seizure of power in Egypt by the Arab nationalist party, led by Gamal Abdel Nasser, he immediately followed the request to withdraw his forces ...
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16/01/18  |  History
Italian wars in the post-war conflicts: the Argentine MB339 of the Malvinas / Falkland conflict
The MB339, as well as its progenitor MB326, although to a lesser extent, had good sales success abroad. Favored by good overall performance, by its wide ...
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15/01/18  |  History
The pretorians of the Führer
The SS Division Panzer Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler, was undoubtedly the most important division of the Waffen-SS during the Second World War, distinguishing itself since the 1939 ...
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08/01/18  |  History
1967: Jerusalem liberated
Shortly after 9.30 on Tuesday 6 June 1967, Israeli colonel Mordechai Gur, commander of the 55 Paratroopers Brigade, spoke to his soldiers via radio: we are on ...
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05/01/18  |  History
When Italian military policy was not (wholly) enslaved to the French one
The relations between the Italian and French High Command during the Great War constituted the first example of military collaboration between the two nations by the 2 ° War for ...
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03/01/18  |  History
Italian wings of post-war conflicts: the Portuguese G91s in the colonies
In May 1964, the commander-in-chief of Portuguese Guinea, General Arnaldo Schultz, also with functions of ...
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27/12/17  |  History
Churchil the innovator: the invention of "water tanks"
Churchill was one of the greatest politicians of the 20th century. Acclaimed as much as mistreated, we owe him the ...
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18/12/17  |  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, at ...
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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 contributed considerably to raising the tension between the two ...
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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. The...
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09/12/17  |  History
The battle of Tapso
The battle of Tapso was a military battle, the 7 February of the 46 ac (according to the Gregorian calendar), ...
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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 ...
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29/11/17  |  History
SAS in the Sultanate of Oman
The conflicts stemming from the rapid disintegration of colonial empires in the immediate post-war period still represent ...
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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 and Syrian conflicts ...
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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, died 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 ruins of the old Russian imperial navy which had been almost completely ...
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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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Tribute (due) to the 80th "Roma" infantry who takes leave with honor

Well, yes, we are now used to witnessing the closure of the barracks and perhaps even a little to burying the long history of the departments, a phenomenon which however does not erase the memories. It also touched...

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"Il Signor Parolini" (ninth part)

The baked chicken, as expected, had lived up to its reputation, consolidating, where needed, the undisputed culinary mastery of Gastone, chief ...

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Backchannels and fireworks: US mediation behind Iranian retaliation on Israel?
As announced by the Iranian regime, the announced retaliation for the (unannounced) attack on the Iranian consulate in Damascus on 1 April 2024 which led to the death of...
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Letters to Defense Online: "Carabinieri and sinking of the Garibaldi"
Mine is not meant to be a sterile controversy but after more than thirty years of wearing the uniform I consider it a "fair" controversy. Decisions regarding the size and composition of forces...
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