
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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