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
The 8th of May 1980 in Belgrade on the day of the last farewell to the Yugoslav leader was attended by heads of state of 31 countries, 22 prime ministers, 6 princes, 47 foreign ministers ...
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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 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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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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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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