History

07/05/17 | History

Florence Nightingale, that is, if the lamp is not enough ... better the hammer!

As we have already noticed, often the "carnage" of the war, shamelessly hidden by the "fig leaf" of "various and possible" ideals, serves for "political" purposes ....

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04/05/17 | History

The Awaden War between Ethiopia and Somalia (1977-1978): Somalia attacks

At first things seemed to proceed according to plan: within a few days the joint forces of the SNA and WSLF occupied the cities of Kelafo and Kebre Dehar and around the 60 ...

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03/05/17 | History

The Ogaden war between Ethiopia and Somalia (1977-1978): the historical and political premises of the conflict

The historical origins of the Ogaden war can be traced back to the late nineteenth century when the various European colonial powers, present in the area of the Horn of Africa, ...

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29/04/17 | History

A regiment to the conquest of a ... Gran Magisterium!

From the earliest times, military operations were used in the political sphere to justify various claims, and this was the case before such figures as Sun Tzu or Vegezio or von ...

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27/04/17 | History

The weight of defeat

During the mid-morning of the 2 September 1945, the last Axis fighting country, the Japanese Empire, unconditionally signed the final surrender. World War II ...

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21/04/17 | History

April 21, 753 BC: "Roma dies natalis"

April 21 is the feast of the Birth of Rome, now a millennial anniversary, which celebrates the foundation of the Eternal City. The birth of Rome is shrouded in legend ...

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20/04/17 | History

Samurai on the Pacific

The feelings of honor, fidelity, courage and devotion were all sublimated in the "Bushido" (way of the warrior), code and rule of life of the samurai, basically derived from ...

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18/04/17 | History

The Civil War in Rhodesia (1965 - 1979): the phase of guerrilla warfare and the rise of Mugabe

After the first skirmishes in 1965, the struggle between the sides came to a head in April 1966, when strong guerrilla groups began to infiltrate Rhodesian territory ...

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18/04/17 | History

Aldo Castellani, Italian and Doctor: a story of dignity and consistency

Often one feels accusing the nationalism of every wickedness or depravity. However, as always happens when ...

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17/04/17 | History

Vincenzo Tiberio, medical officer of Regia Marina, the first Italian discoverer of antibiotics

The role of fortune, more or less casual (serendipity) or skill-oriented, is not just for the game ...

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11/04/17 | History

The secret fortress of Gibraltar: the underground tunnel complex that defended the British throughout the 2GM

A network of underground tunnels that could hold up to 16.000 soldiers for over a year. Tunnel and access ...

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11/04/17 | History

Ba'athism and Assad Syria

The Middle East has always been prey to states that pursue colonialist and imperialist goals, first for its ...

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07/04/17 | History

The Civil War in Rhodesia (1965 - 1979): Historical Premises and Armaments Involved

Thanks to the commercial intuition of Cecil Rhodes, Great Britain, in the second half of the 800, gained control ...

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04/04/17 | History

The secret weapon of the Third Reich

The Nazi army was certainly one of the most powerful in history. Numerous factors helped to make it such: ...

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31/03/17 | History

Italian 35.000

Littorio's battleships, set up at the Trieste and Genoa shipyards in the 1938, were the first battleships from ...

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29/03/17 | History

Shiny the aircraft carrier from clay feet

The Japanese Imperial Navy started the Pacific War with 10 aircraft carrier, at that time the largest and most modern fleet ...

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21/03/17 | History

Yamato battle ships

The great battleships Yamato and Musashi were the most famous and demanding buildings of the Imperial Navy ...

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20/03/17 | History

CIA Army Mafia, evidence emerges

In the 1942 war hung on the side of the Nazi-Fascists, the president of the United States Franklin Delano Roosevelt did not ...

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17/03/17 | History

17 March 1861: 156 years ago the unity of Italy

It was the 17 March of the 1861 when, during the session at Palazzo Carignano, the new Parliament named for the first ...

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16/03/17 | History

The March 17 was the Monarchic Risorgiment. But was there some Republican attempt?

The term "Risorgimento" means a period of Italian history, historically placed by the defeat of ...

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