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, who also served as a local provincial governor, had by now realized the leap ...
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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. Exalted as much as he is mistreated, we owe the world to him as it is today, for better or for worse and, whatever ...
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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, 1,3 miles by 356 ° from the port's west pier light ...
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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 significantly contributed to raising the tension between the two countries, Saddam Hussein decided to go on the offensive, ...
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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. Military operations had significantly intensified in ...
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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 ...
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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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25/10/17  |  History
The Battle of Maiwand
Western military history books are rich in heroic battles won but tend to give less emphasis ...
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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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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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In Defense of Cecilia Sala: Reflections on Justice and (Juvenile) Opinions in Freedom
The news of the arrest and detention of Cecilia Sala in the homeland prisons of the happy Islamic Republic of Iran, now belongs to the past news. Far from sharing the whys and the...
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