by Pasquale Preziosa The Telegraph in an article by Blake Herzinger, USSC researcher in foreign policy and defense, reported that Chinese scientists, in a war simulation against the United States, stated that China's hypersonic weapons could destroy the new aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford. In the simulation the Chinese have […]
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Analysis from a military strategic point of view (by Pasquale Preziosa) Technology has always had great influence not only on the economic power of nations but also on military strategies, acting as a catalyst in international relations. In the past, nuclear technology applied to weapons characterized the Cold War period. After the fall of the wall of […]
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In relation to the latest events in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict with Wagner's taking of the Bakhmut stronghold, the trespassing of alleged Russian revolutionary troops in Belgorod and the request for F16s accepted by the West, we asked General Pasquale Preziosa, president of the The Eurispes Security Observatory an analysis from a military strategic point of view. General, […]
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General Pasquale Preziosa, former head of the Air Force and today president of the Eurispes Security Observatory spoke this afternoon to TGCOM24 on the crisis in Ukraine. The general analyzed the recent "dense" and "intense" Russian missile activity, specifying that the Patriot defense system worked (according to reports from the Ukrainians) against the dreaded Khinzal [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) Putin's propaganda in support of the special military operation in Ukraine is centered on historical reasons, dating back to the empire of Peter the Great and on the narrative of the dangerous enlargement of NATO to Russia's borders. of NATO towards Russia is a thesis studied by many international observers and analysts who, [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) So Zelensky spoke remotely at the security conference in Munich: "We are all David against Goliath. David is the whole free world. Freedom is a value in all parts of the world. And there is no alternative to Goliath's defeat and our victory. Being David means fighting, Ukraine is a […]
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(by Andrea Pinto) We are almost a year after the conflict that broke out in Ukraine due to the Russian invasion. A conflict that is putting a strain on the stability of the world economy due to a series of factors, one of which is the energy supply of the countries most dependent on Russian gas and oil. A long war, exhausting and [...]
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"Putin in recent days has launched the usual nuclear blackmail, we have already heard it in the past, we must, however, only interpret the signals that come to us from Russia". General Pasquale Preziosa, former Chief of Staff of the Air Force and now president of the Eurispes Security Observatory, told TG4. The general continues: "Putin raised [...]
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General Pasquale Preziosa was interviewed by the prestigious American magazine Defense.info, on current issues involving new world actors in the economic, social and military fields. Particular attention was paid to the new strategic documents of NATO and the EU, considered already "past" and not suitable for modern challenges. The point of view of [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) A long war is expected in Ukraine despite the Russian difficulties reported by the Western media. Yet Russia is increasingly present in the Middle East, Africa (Congo) South America (Venezuela in the lead) and the Balkans, but also in Iran and India not to mention China. Western sanctions, apparently, seem not to have [...]
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The invasion of Russia against Ukraine inevitably favored the creation of a new world order. It forced Sweden and Finland to abandon their almost centennial neutrality to move towards NATO and accelerated the accession process of Ukraine, Moldova and Macedonia to the European Union. It also favored the approach of a new economic bloc and [...]
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Russia opens to a peace intervention by the Pope. Poland is wary of a mission in Kiev by the Scholz-Macron-Draghi trio. Ukraine, on the other hand, presents a shopping list at the meeting of defense ministers to be held today at NATO in Brussels. On the ground, Severodonetsk is practically surrounded and the connections with Lisichansk are [...]
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On Cusano Tv to 'The Entrepreneur and the Others', General Pasquale Preziosa, former Chief of Staff of the Air Force and today president of the Eurispes Security Observatory, treated the question of the war in Ukraine with disarming lucidity, giving a most studied version of the global situation. An analysis that differs from that written on [...]
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France and its European partners operating in Mali have announced the coordinated withdrawal from the country, where they are present with Operation Barkhane and the European special forces Takuba. "The political, operational and legal conditions are no longer satisfied" and the countries, according to a joint statement, have decided "coordinated withdrawal" from the country [...]
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General Precious: "Africa, a bedrock of instability"
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Winds of war are in the air in Eastern Europe with Washington and Moscow tightening up their positions by the hour. "Russia cannot ignore the activity of NATO and the risk that the Ukrainian armed forces will stage provocations in the Donbass is now higher", thundered Vladimir Putin's spokesman, [...]
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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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The very delicate Afghan question has once again highlighted how important it is for Europe to achieve real and evident strategic autonomy in all sectors in order to be able to intervene and take positions, thus becoming "part of the solution and not of the problem" in perfect autonomy without waiting or be conditioned by the "decisive" choices of the great super powers [...]
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In an era where computer violations and data thefts become more and more frequent and risk immobilizing the economic and social functions of a state, our country has equipped itself with a National Cybersecurity Agency, with the aim of protecting national interests. in the field of cybersecurity and [...]
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Islam, Islam, jihadism and many others are the terms that identify a global ideological-religious movement that in some extremist derivations has sworn death to the Western world inhabited by so-called infidels. A careful examination of Islam was made by General Pasquale Preziosa on the Eurispes website, an analysis that of the former Chief of Staff of the Air Force and [...]
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 [...]
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Among the global challenges is that of domination in the missile field, a new strategic challenge that places the parties in strong competition to achieve world primacy. To clarify our ideas, an unpublished analysis, published on formiche.net made by General Pasquale PREZIOSA, today president of the Eurispes Security Observatory, former head of state [...]
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“The political and military lessons identified for Afghanistan will serve for the new scenarios of operations in Africa. It is necessary to resort to history and its teachings, such as those inherited from the Roman Empire, which obtained security from threats from the south by strengthening the countries of North Africa “. Thus, on Formiche.net, General Pasquale PREZIOSA, former head of state [...]
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Surprise visit yesterday to Kabul by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, the day after Joe Biden announced the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan by 11 September. An inevitable decision for the American president, but probably made not without some stomach ache within his administration. According to some sources close to the House [...]
read moreThe new materials for a circular and sustainable economy also for Puglia, the news from the World Materials Forum The Puglia region strongly proposes itself as a "laboratory" for the experimentation and production of new technologies and innovative materials, paying particular attention to the environment by relaunching vigorously the sustainable production system. This is the [...]
read moreInvesting in culture and new technology because "a country that is not structured to transfer knowledge to the new generations risks a decline in social and political living conditions". This is the authoritative opinion expressed by General Pasquale Preziosa - president of the Eurispes Security Observatory, former Chief of Staff of the Air Force, in the article published [...]
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On the Eurispes website a very interesting interview with the president of the Security Observatory, General Pasquale Preziosa, former Chief of Staff of the Air Force until 2016. The topic addressed concerns today's concept of security, and in particular of security national, and on the role that communication assumes in representing the complexity of the globalized world. General Precious, the [...]
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General Pasquale Preziosa, former Chief of Staff of the Air Force, detailed, in an editorial in the Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno, a complete and exhaustive analysis on the Italian energy problem in the European context in the light of the "dead line", indicated by the trial already started to achieve climate neutrality in 2050. Europe, writes Preziosa, has already drawn [...]
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After the agreement on the Recovery Fund and the 2021-2027 EU Budget announced at dawn by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, it is important that Italy now presents a convincing National Plan which, as Conte himself stated, will "restart Italy forcefully and change the face of the country ". The control of investments will therefore be fundamental, which in addition to bringing [...]
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On Eurispes.it, the article published by the Security Observatory, led by General Pasquale Preziosa and the two vip-presidents, Giovanni Russo and Roberto De Vita. The ideas offered to understand a current phenomenon that could undermine, from the deepest and in an endemic way, the security of the same state are very interesting. According to Adam Smith, wealth is needed first [...]
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An article signed by the president of the Observatory on Security, Pasquale Preziosa and the vice president, Roberto De Vita, has been published on the Eurispes website, where the theme of the "lockdown" implemented by most countries to combat the spread of COVID-19. An extreme and considered unique measure to stem the contagion of [...]
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Peace, social serenity and security are the founding values of civil society. The geopolitics of security rests its studies on many sectors, but that of disasters is by election. Only by mitigating the effects of disasters are those of national security also mitigated. Thus stated in a statement the former head of state [...]
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"#Coronavirus emergency, there are three interconnected risk factors that afflict all countries, from health to economic and social. The country that manages to mitigate risk levels in the best possible way will win the future ”. Thus in an article published by Eurispet.it Magazine, General Pasquale Preziosa, President of the Eurispes Security Observatory, [...]
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"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 ". So wrote in an article published by Eurispes, Pasquale Preziosa formerly head of the Italian Air Force and today President of the Observatory on Security. "What is systematically surprising - he specifies [...]
read moreEurispes, Institute of Political, Economic and Social Studies, has launched a permanent Observatory on Security, entrusting its presidency to General Pasquale Preziosa, former Chief of Staff of the Air Force and one of the leading experts in geopolitics and international security. General Preziosa is a university professor, during his prestigious military career [...]
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Very interesting for the contents and for the analysis made, the article by General Pasquale Preziosa, former Chief of Staff of the Air Force until 2016, published by Formiche.net. (by Pasquale Preziosa) In an article in the Nikkei Asian Review (Hiroyuki Akita) of 4 February, the concerns of Japan and South Korea for the [...]
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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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Europe: "now or never". The message launched in the book of General Pasquale Preziosa and Dario Velo
Massimiliano Cannata on Eurispes.it did a wonderful review on the book; "The defense of Europe", by Pasquale Preziosa and Dario Velo. Today more than ever we need Europe, we need to believe in and pursue concrete actions to find a true and credible European identity, an identity which, in the light of the latest events in the Middle East - [...]
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(by Pasquale Preziosa) Who will defend the Europe of tomorrow? There is no answer to this question, none of the European countries has a precise idea and any innovative initiative triggers, in European countries, the spring of conservatism, creating stagnation of thought. According to the founding fathers, European countries will have to live together to avoid further disasters after two [...]
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(by Pasquale Preziosa) The European Community had launched, at the time of Donald Tusk, a "warning" to Turkey for the respect of national sovereignties, after the ships of the Turkish Navy had prevented the ship chartered by our ENI from continuing the journey towards the exclusive economic area belonging to the Greek Cypriots, to explore the possible presence of gas [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Russia, the United States, China and now even Europe with some projects are always competing to equip their armies with increasingly advanced weapons. The supremacy in the military field is one of the main objectives for competing and asserting one's influence in the international arena. Aeronautics, in this context, constitutes the [...]
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Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio on the escalation of Turkey in Syria said: “I hope that the European Union can take measures. Italy will ask for international law to be respected, not to put the lives of civilians at risk and an end to all military action ”. Di Maio also hinted that he wanted to [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) General Pasquale Preziosa, former Chief of Staff of the Air Force until March 2016, was interviewed by Difesa Online, where he analyzed in all contexts, the various industrial programs that have affected the Italian Air Force . More than an interview, it is a "unique" document to be read and made to be read [...]
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It is worrying to note how in a world context where the super powers change and update their trade and defense strategies, Europe lacks its own plans capable of strongly contrasting those of China and Russia. It is precisely the lack of a common European strategic policy that suggests to individual countries to [...]
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In a very interesting article, published by Difesa Online, General Pasquale Preziosa, former Chief of Staff of the Air Force, provides a detailed analysis, with many food for thought, on the need for Europe to implement inclusive and strategic in order to become a protagonist in the technological trajectory. An exercise that only the most [...] nations can aspire to.
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(by Pasquale Preziosa) According to some American analysts, Afghanistan's National Security has deteriorated further since NATO, in 2014, reduced its presence on the ground and did not allow the Afghan security forces to reach the training levels required by the US plans. This is not the case, this is just a little "superfine" way [...]
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On November 107, the General of the Air Force Oreste Genta had turned XNUMX and today a great man and a great commander died who marked the history of aviation and the Italian Air Force with his courage and his service . The Armed Force has always proudly remembered the pilot officer who [...]
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(by Pasquale Preziosa) The European Union has long established its own migration policy, which is inspired by the principle of solidarity. The cornerstones of this policy, which refer to art. 79 and 80 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, (TFEU) are: - legal migration; - integration, - the fight against illegal immigration, - readmission agreements, in countries [...]
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Finally someone has clarified the most discussed military industrial program ever. Whenever an editorial is posted on social media, hundreds of comments and criticisms of unsuspecting citizens are made, unwittingly carried away by the mantras of election campaigns. It is much more appealing to talk about the savings resulting from the F-35 cuts than [...]
read more"The Sigonella base, as far as the Mediterranean and the Middle East are concerned, explained to Tiscali News the former Chief of Staff of the Air Force, now professor of Geopolitics at UNI Cusano, has always represented an important logistic site ( but not the only one) to support the operations carried out in those areas. Its importance is both [...]
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(by Pasquale Preziosa) Ethiopia continues to exploit any event in the area of competence, to better outline its geopolitical strategy. Recent events in the Gulf area, which saw Qatar under political pressure from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, have had an influence on Ethiopia's foreign policy. Relations between Ethiopia and [...]
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(by Pasquale Preziosa) In Saudi Arabia many princes have been arrested and a centralization of powers is underway in the hands of Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) son of the Sovereign. On November 4th, a royal decree was signed for the establishment of an anti-corruption committee headed by Mohammad bin Salman; in Saudi Arabia, [...]
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Countess Maria Fede Caproni di Taliedo passed away today in Rome, a strong and charismatic figure, daughter of Gianni Battista Caproni, aeronautical engineer, entrepreneur and pioneer of Italian aviation. From 1911 his whole series of planes that went from Ca.8 to Ca.16; from Ca.42 to Ca.40 in the years to come, up to the models [...]
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Human traffickers in the Mediterranean used old disused fishing boats, purchased from Algerian and Tunisian fishermen. Since the soldiers of the various international military missions have begun to destroy these precarious boats, the "refugee boats" have come out "afloat". This is how the strange rubber boats made to measure for migrants are called that you can easily buy [...]
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