The Gao Advanced Operations Base in Mali was hit by mortar fire from forces hostile to the French-led international coalition, which operates in the Sahel as part of Operation Barkhane. , there are no Italian injuries and the staff are safe. The soldiers of [...]
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(by Pasquale Preziosa - President of the Security Observatory - EURISPES) Overall, the Costs of War Project has estimated that 241 thousand people died as a result of the war in Afghanistan. Among them, over 2.400 members of the US armed forces and at least 71 civilians, as well as 78.000 Afghan soldiers and policemen and 84 fighters from insurgent groups. [...]
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Today the extraordinary G7 summit was held remotely, organized by the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to discuss international security, migrants and respect for human rights with a particular focus on the situation in Afghanistan in light of the expected withdrawal date of the American military, the 31 August next. While on the one hand the [...]
read moreTwo hundred soldiers, 20 land vehicles, 6 helicopters (four Mangusta). Italy is thus ready to strengthen its presence in the Sahel, fully joining the Takuba Task Force, which will be operational by the summer. The mission will be to support local security forces in contrasting the growing jihadist phenomena in the area between [...]
read more“The success of the Operation, the first in the history of Defense, confirms Italy's great technical-scientific capabilities. Space is increasingly at the center of the geopolitical and economic confrontation between the major world powers and our country, thanks to a wide range of civil and military applications, can enjoy a strong technical and scientific positioning [...]
read more(by Mario Galati) I often read in national newspapers colleagues who improvise themselves as military analysts and even more as experts in budgeting and military programs by writing about billions of euros spent on defense vehicles and infrastructures rather than building bridges and schools. Too much demagogy abused for a context, that of Defense, which deserves greater [...]
read moreSolemn ceremony in the Milanese Institute in the presence of the Minister of Defense, Hon. Guerini, and the Chief of Staff of the Army, General Serino It took place this morning, in the 1st Tricolor square of the Institute, in the presence of the Minister of Defense , Hon. Lorenzo Guerini and the Chief of Staff of the Army, General of the Army Corps Pietro Serino, the ceremony [...]
read moreDefense Minister Lorenzo Guerini announced it in Parliament last Tuesday, the Drive trough Defense, the mobile laboratories for swabs, will also be converted into vaccination poles if necessary. Yesterday the plan was presented by the head of the Dicastery himself. Tomorrow, in Milan at the Trenno park, the first experiment in [...]
read more(by Andrea Pinto) Draghi has only one goal, 600 vaccinations a day to save the next school year and try to reopen Italy already in the summer. Now it's up to the new head of the Civil Protection Fabrizio Curcio to reorganize a car that had rusted over the months. Let's talk about putting an army back into the system [...]
read more“Now more Italian ships in the Mediterranean. Situation changed, we have to protect our interests, we have to defend Italians and Italian interests in a different way because today's Mediterranean is not the same as it was just 3 years ago: we need a new vision, a new presence. No bellicose aggression, but here things have changed, [...]
read moreNew Generation Rotorcraft Capability (NGRC) is the program that the defense industry of Italy, France, Germany, England and Greece is trying to finalize to build and make operational, starting from 2035, a helicopter with new generation capabilities. The NATO partners, signatories of a letter of intent, will have five years to develop a machine [...]
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On the Day of National Unity and the Day of the Armed Forces, Minister Guerini, welcomed by the Chief of Defense Staff, General Enzo Vecciarelli and by the Commander of the COI General of CA Luciano Portolano, greeted the Italian military contingents involved in video link in international operations and received the 2021 Calendar from the Defense Staff. Yesterday [...]
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Compared to the same period in 2019, landings have tripled reaching the figure of 12.228 of which only in July 5.278, a third equal to 4354 are Tunisians. (by Massimiliano D'ELIA) Tunisia is suffering from a serious economic crisis because it can no longer take advantage of tourism revenues due to the effects of the pandemic [...]
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The arrivals, through military carriers, of the supports provided by NATO and the international community in response to the covid-19 emergency continue without interruption Yesterday afternoon, General Enzo Vecciarelli, Chief of Staff of Defense, went to the airport Military of Pratica di Mare where he assisted, in the presence of the Foreign Minister [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) "Scholars have been warning decision makers for years: 'Pandemics are real threats to humanity" but decision makers are always found unprepared and people do not follow them ". Thus wrote in an article published by Eurispes, Pasquale Preziosa former head of the Italian Air Force and today President of the Observatory on Security. To resume [...]
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