25/10/17 | History
The Battle of Maiwand
Western military history books are full of heroic battles won, but they often tend to put less emphasis on defeats. Especially those of the last two centuries, in ...
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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 development of the Korean nuclear program. In this perspective of clarification and ...
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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 60 when an atomic energy research complex was established in Yongbyon for purposes, at least officially, only ...
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16/10/17 | History
North Korea and nuclear (1 / 3): ideological and historical premise
North Korea has been placed in the international spotlight for the intensification of its nuclear program and the testing of ICBMs ...
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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 aroused the admiration of their counterparts in ...
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09/10/17 | History
The Battle of Nassiryah Bridges: The First Offensive of the Italian Army Since World War II
The 6 April of the 2004 the Italian contingent in Iraq - within the framework of the Ancient Babylon operation begun the previous year - faces and defeats the militia belonging to ...
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05/10/17 | History
The Atlantean Submarines of Betasom
Betasom is the codename of the Atlantic base of Italian submarines in Bordeaux, in the Second World War, which from the autumn of 1940 to the 8 in September 1943, when it was signed ...
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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 group of British pro-Nazi volunteers receives the weapons and parades ...
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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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13/09/17 | History
Birth of a new war era with the 'Wars of Italy'
Between 1494 and 1529 Italy was devastated by what are known as the 'Wars of Italy'. On the one hand ...
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12/09/17 | History
Sino-Roman diplomatic relations
Ancient Rome and ancient China are still considered eternal symbols of order, power and wisdom, values ...
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07/09/17 | History
SS: The First European Army? Italian SS
For many years the story of the Italian SS has been erased from the pages of history, it also writes and speaks little ...
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05/09/17 | History
That 'raid' of a submarine from Albione to the Argentario: July 15, 1943
It happens that, when great passions are nourished, one finds oneself in the place of the sea where one has spent the most ...
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04/09/17 | History
The air and "football" war of 1969
The South American area has always been characterized by a strong political-economic instability that deflates, in addition ...
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10/08/17 | History
Ordalia: the Judgment of God
"Ordalia" means: Judgment of God (ordàlia, orˈdalja in Latin or ordalìa, ordaˈlia in French, from Latin ...
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31/07/17 | History
SS: The First European Army? Western SS
The SS were formed in 1925 by recruiting members of the SA who until 1926 were part of the personal guard of ...
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28/07/17 | History
Cavour's journey, the one who "to no one second"
Italy, having emerged from the victorious First World War, was powerless to witness the sabotage of those that had been ...
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21/07/17 | History
SS: The First European Army?
The SS were created by Adolf Hitler in the 1925 officially to fulfill a function of personal defense of the Fuhrer ...
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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 the Director
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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