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, little is written and talked about even today, so the time has come to shed light on the facts in ...
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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 from an early age, you find yourself in the seaside place where you spent the most time of all, wondering what was happening there during the ...
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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 such as to explode, on more than one occasion, into real armed conflicts. Clashes ...
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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 medieval Latin ordalium and from Lombard ordaïl). Innocence or ...
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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 Adolf Hitler's personal guard and supervised party rallies. The 6th ...
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28/07/17  |  History
Cavour's journey, the one who "to no one second"
Italy, having emerged from the first victorious world war, was powerless to witness the sabotage of what had been the legitimate ambitions promised by the allies in case of ...
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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 perform a personal defense function of the Fuhrer and to oversee the party rallies; this restricted and ...
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20/07/17  |  History
July 20, 1969: "The Eagle has landed!"
They were the 20: 18 UTC of the 20 July 1969, when Neil Armstrong, commander of the Apollo 11 mission, put his feet on the lunar ground for the first time by saying the famous phrase ...
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20/07/17  |  History
Guglielmo Marconi, an Italian genius
Guglielmo Marconi dies in Rome on 20 1937 July, exactly eighty years ago, for a heart attack. With him...
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20/07/17  |  History
The Anglo-American War of the 1812
The 1812 was a turning point in history, since Napoleon's Empire, at its peak, attempted the ...
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17/07/17  |  History
A "glacial" mission for the Regia Marina
"Città di Milano" was the unit of the Regia Marina, under the command of Giuseppe Manoja, which left the port on March 20, 1928 ...
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12/07/17  |  History
The 1995 Air Force between Peru and Ecuador: the war-torn war (part 2 / 2)
In the early years of 90 the tension between the two countries for the controversial frontier of Condor-Canepa went up dramatically ...
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11/07/17  |  History
Military life in antiquity
In the ancient world the military career had a greater importance than it has in our time, it certainly gave ...
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08/07/17  |  History
The polar expedition of the Duke of the Abruzzi, 1899-1900, on Polar Starship
Following the first circumnavigation of the globe, carried out by the Magenta pyro-corvette (see article), in order to ...
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07/07/17  |  History
The Special Department
The 1961 will be remembered as one of the worst years of South Tyrol's history: in June, one of the ...
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07/07/17  |  History
The 1995 Air Force between Peru and Ecuador: premise and set-up (part 1 / 2)
Between Ecuador and Peru there has always been an age-old border dispute dating back to the first demarcation of ...
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05/07/17  |  History
The Magenta Pyrogorvetta is the first Italian ship to travel around the globe
Only five years after the Unification of Italy, the kingdom was already beginning to weave its foreign policy relations ...
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04/07/17  |  History
The golden galleon
Caribbean Sea November 2, 1641, on this day consecrated by the piety of the living to the cult of the dead, a ship loaded with ...
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19/06/17  |  History
The Battle of Waterloo
Waterloo is one of the most important battles in history, as it represents the tomb of the Napoleonic Empire, the ...
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15/06/17  |  History
Pantelleria, 15 June 1942, under the sign of Antares
June 1942: the Regia Marina has been involved for months in contrasting British convoys to Malta. Malta, base ...
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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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Syria: The Most Vile Betrayal
Do you see this photo? It is from 2015. Behind me, there are the faces of some of the tens of thousands of soldiers and volunteers who sacrificed their lives to defend their homeland. The...
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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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