Celebration in Rome in the presence of the Defense Summits This morning, in Rome, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the breach of Porta Pia, the Undersecretary of State for Defense the Honorable Angelo Tofalo and the mayor, Dr. Virginia Raggi, accompanied by representative of the Lazio Region by the Chief of Staff of [...]

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The Chief of Defense Staff, General Enzo Vecciarelli, met today in Rome, at Palazzo Salviati, the Central Council of the Military Representation (COCER), in the presence of the Chiefs of Staff of the Armed Forces, the General Commanders of the Carabinieri and the Corps of the Guardia di Finanza and the Secretary General of Defense. The meeting, [...]

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Thus the Chief of Defense Staff, General Enzo Vecciarelli to his counterpart from the United States of America, General Mark A. Milley, during a telephone interview on the ongoing health emergency: "I appreciate the long and consolidated friendship, but in particular the commitment made by the Armed Forces of the United States of America always ready to cooperate with the [...]

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The Chief of Defense Staff, General Enzo Vecciarelli, accompanied by the Commander of the Operational Command of the Joint Defense Force (COI), the Army Corps General Luciano Portolano, went to Bergamo to meet the men and women of the Armed Forces and the representatives of the various institutions, which for over 45 [...]

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The Chief of Defense Staff, General Enzo Vecciarelli today received the Minister of Defense Lorenzo Guerini and the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza, on a visit to the "Celio" Polyclinic in Rome, where an inspection of the structures was carried out on the occasion of the recent start of extraordinary infrastructural interventions aimed at a rapid [...]

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The approval of Italians towards the Armed Forces has been confirmed, according to what emerges from the "32nd Italy 2020 Report" of Eurispes, presented today in Rome, which in the part relating to the level of trust in the institutions shows a constancy in the percentages of consent towards the work of men and women of the Armed Forces. According to the data of the survey conducted by the institute of studies [...]

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(by Andrea Pinto) The US military leaders in Iraq have informed their Iraqi counterpart that US troops are starting preparations to "leave" the country. Brigadier General William Seely, head of the US task force in Iraq, wrote a letter to the Iraqi chief of joint operations, viewed by the AFP. The Iraqi Parliament, in reaction to the killing [...]

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The Air Force celebrates on 10 December the Blessed Virgin of Loreto, the "Patroness of Aeronauts". In Rome, the Eucharistic celebration dedicated to the event will take place in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore. The Rite will be officiated by the Military Ordinary for Italy, His Excellency Monsignor Santo Marcianò, in the presence of the Chief of Defense Staff, General Enzo Vecciarelli, of the Chief [...]

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(by Andrea Pinto) Today in Colleferro, a town south of Rome, the funeral of the general of the Air Force, Aldo Nanni, took place. Aldo Nanni, the "general", as his fellow citizens liked to call him, suddenly passed away at the age of 82, during the night of July 31st. Born in Colleferro on 28 December 1937, he is [...]

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Thus in a press release, also approved by the Defense Staff, the President of the SIM Aeronautica Militare Sinibaldo Buono commented on the meeting held today between the Chief of Defense Staff, General Enzo Vecciarelli, and the first authorized trade union in the history of Aeronautics, also represented on the occasion by Vice President Antonino Sutera. "General Vecciarelli has [...]

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The Senator of the Brothers of Italy, Isabella #Rauti, group leader in the Defense Committee at the end of the hearing of the Chief of Defense Staff, Enzo #Vecciarelli, before the assembled Defense Committees, on the DPP - Multiannual programmatic document for Defense for the three-year period 2019-2021, so in a note comments the exposition of the head of #Stato #Maggiore della #Difesa: "Analysis [...]

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With the Council of Ministers n. 25 the Government has appointed the new Chief of Defense Staff, General Enzo Vecciarelli who will be replaced at the top of the Air Force, next 31 October, by the Air Squad General Alberto Rosso. General Alberto Rosso leaves the post of Chief of Staff of the Minister of Defense, Elisabetta Trenta. Next November 6 [...]

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