(Admiral Giuseppe De Giorgi) In the same hours as European leaders were returning home after the Brexit summit in Brussels, while trying to reach the Ukrainian port of Mariupol, three Ukrainian warships were hit and seized by the Russian armed forces in the sea of Azov on the Kerch Strait (northern part of [...]
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(by Admiral Giuseppe De Giorgi) Unfortunately, international relations are not regulated by gratitude, but by national interests and by the "strength" of the various states. From the Second World War onwards, Italy as a defeated nation did not enjoy full national sovereignty. America was our tutelary deity, for better or for worse. Today the USA [...]
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(Admiral Giuseppe De Giorgi) Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the United States Navy has had no more rivals able to fight it on the Oceans, at least until today. However, the numerical overtaking took place: 317 naval units against 283, and so at the end of 2017 the Navy of the People's Liberation Army became, surpassing that [...]
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(Admiral Giuseppe de Giorgi) The recent international days dedicated to the Environment and the protection of the marine environment have been able to bring to the attention of citizens and institutions one of the most serious ecological problems in our history: our seas are suffocating. Considering, in fact, that every year we produce more than 300 million tons of plastic, and that [...]
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(by Admiral Giuseppe De Giorgi) While in America the "Time", to talk about the "migrant crisis" exploded in the United States after the "zero tolerance" line applied by the Trump administration, dedicates the cover of its next edition to iconic image of the child, separated from her parents, who despairs in tears in front of an impassive president, in Europe [...]
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Not a re-edition of Mare nostrum, but the opening of humanitarian corridors that make it possible to save those fleeing from wars and persecutions, as well as measures to allow Libya to recover the political stability necessary to stop the migratory phenomenon. This is said by Admiral Giuseppe De Giorgi, former Navy Chief of Staff and head of the Sea mission [...]
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(by Ammiraglio de Giorgi) Once again, space-related technology will help us to better understand a fundamental dynamic for the global ecosystem: that of the real entity of plastic present in the oceans A real map on this very heavy polluting contamination can be created thanks to the project linked to Sentinel 3 satellites, of the [...]
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(by Admiral Giuseppe De Giorgi) The mystery lasted about ten days: an impressive number of plastic discs had spilled into some stretches of the coast of the central Tyrrhenian Sea, especially near the island of Ischia, on the Campania coast and in the Lazio one, between Anzio and Fiumicino. Small white discs of the size of [...]
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(Admiral Giuseppe De Giorgi) There are hundreds of kilos of plastic in a single cubic kilometer of the Mediterranean. The impressive figure was disseminated by Cnr researcher Marco Faimali during the conference on the danger of micro and macroplastics in the seas and oceans, organized in Lerici (La Spezia) by Sea Shepherd. "If we filtered a [...]
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(Adm. Giuseppe De Giorgi) The volume of international arms exports in the period between 2013 and 2017, confirming the upward trend that began in the early 2000s, was 10% higher than that of 2008-2012. These data emerge from a study published by the International Peace Research Institute of Stockholm (SIPRI), putting in [...]
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(Admiral Giuseppe De Giorgi) The contamination by microplastics has now reached incalculable levels in the oceans. Research on the impact of pollution on the marine ecosystem is increasingly numerous and does not seem to leave much room for hope. The latest is the one published in Frontiers in Marine Science: three out of four fish that live deep in the Northwest Atlantic are [...]
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(Admiral Giuseppe De Giorgi) - Wednesday 17 January, "Alliance", the multi-purpose research ship of the Navy left the port of La Spezia towards the seas of Iceland and Greenland, beyond the Arctic Circle, to implement a scientific mission, in collaboration with the NATO Center for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE), which [...]
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After the first political reactions to the missile attack carried out last night in Syria, to provide his authoritative more purely military point of view is the former Chief of Staff of the Italian Navy, Admiral Giuseppe De Giorgi, who in a note states: "From a military point of view, the attack appeared [...]
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