14/09/2014 - Fifty young Italians have been recruited via the web to fight against ISIS militias in Syria and Iraq. They come from different cities such as Brescia, Turin, Ravenna, Padua, Bologna.
Saudi support and Wahhabi networks have led Isis to be a hegemon in a third of original Iraq and to guarantee operational autonomy in an equivalent area in Syria.
27/08/2014 - The following article, starting from the analysis of the main crisis elements of the current geopolitical context, identifies the main risk factors related to security for the European space, at the center of various areas of conflict in particular, in the sectors Eastern Europe and the Middle East.
04/08/2014 - The worsening of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in recent weeks, with the consequent death of hundreds of people, has brought the attention of public opinion, and of international organizations, to ask whether there have been violations in the aforementioned context of international humanitarian law.
17/07/2014 - The military doctrine has its roots in the principle of deterrence, but in the specific case of Israel, the concept also extends to offense.
16/07/2014 - In recent years, our armed forces have increasingly found themselves operating in international scenarios marked by the so-called Peace Support Operations (PSO): ie operations, preparatory to peace, aimed at prevention, management and solution (conflict prevention, peace-making, peace-keeping, peace-enforcement, peace-building) of crisis situations (outside the national territory and inspired by the principles of solidarity, impartiality and respect for the person.
24/06/2014 - This article aims to analyze the structure of the European Union's foreign security and defense policy understood in connection with the profound transformations that have affected the national military instrument.
20/06/2014 - (May 2012) I come to Bamiyan: a pearl enclosed in the middle of Afghanistan. An anomalous, peaceful, simply spectacular place. One of the stretches of the ancient "silk road" surrounded by the dangers of the recent past (rebel bands everywhere beyond the mountains) and with the unknown of the near future.
15 / 06 / 2014 - (April 2012) Before leaving for Bamiyan, I am welcomed by friends and experience the famous "Afghan hospitality" in a suburb near Mazar. Then we leave for the longest, most difficult and dangerous journey.
13 / 06 / 2014 - (April 2012) I have to get to the Buddha valley, Bamiyan's. The two roads that connect it to Kabul are made difficult by armed bands that "filter" (read "rob and kill") vehicles and clashes between the Taliban and the army.
06/06/2014 - The Soviet Union and NATO were on the brink of nuclear war after the latter carried out a major military exercise in Central Europe in 1983.
05/06/2014 - Let's start again. Normal life in Kabul resumes and I manage to find (not a sign, not an indication) the mine museum, a place that only a country like Afghanistan could see born.
02 / 06 / 2014 - To us of Online Defense like to give our readers all the tools possible to better understand the fascinating and mysterious military world, full of secrets par excellence.
01 / 06 / 2014 - (16 April 2012) A few hours from a sudden acoustic escalation of gunfire and explosions that woke Kabul - after which the silence ... - the city resumes normal daily life as if nothing had happened.
30/05/2014 - If the leader of Boko Haram is a madman (and there is little doubt about this), how would he have been able to plan the kidnapping of 276 Christian students and how he could manage a group of almost two thousand people in tow considering their own guerrillas?
29/05/2014 - In the video, the chronicle of an attack carried out in Kabul and six other targets simultaneously on April 15, 2012. A team of Taliban in civilian clothes uses the last floors of a building under construction to launch RPG shots against Western embassies.
29/05/2014 - The concept of asymmetric warfare, which for some time has made its way into the common lexicon, can be explained as follows: if in a conventional war scenario, two numerically equal forces clashed, the one with the best technology available.
29 / 05 / 2014 - Sometimes it is thought that only today human civilization has succeeded in creating institutions to protect the weakest ... I think of health and pensions. But are we sure it is so?
The film condenses in seven episodes the "singular" experience of a reporter who has decided to go and see Afghanistan from a new, anomalous point of view: that of the Afghans.
13/05/2014 - "Italy is ready to stand alongside international forces, even if a front should open in Ukraine. The current geopolitical situation presents challenges and threats to which we are able to respond with capacity and professionalism, without ever failing our support for NATO".
05/05/2014 - In February 2013, the Pentagon spread the news that China had intercepted the telemetry of the F-35, but several had already been stolen before terabytes related to the design and electronic hunting systems.