Italian Military Operations Abroad
Title | Italian Military Operations Abroad PDF eBook |
Author | P. Ignazi |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 187 |
Release | 2012-02-17 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 023036828X |
Peace support operations are one of the most important tools in the foreign policy of Western democracies. This book is a study of Italian military operations in the last twenty years. Italy's operations are examined through an analysis of parliamentary debates and interviews with leading policy-makers.
Italian Military Operations Abroad
Title | Italian Military Operations Abroad PDF eBook |
Author | P. Ignazi |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 279 |
Release | 2012-02-17 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 023036828X |
Peace support operations are one of the most important tools in the foreign policy of Western democracies. This book is a study of Italian military operations in the last twenty years. Italy's operations are examined through an analysis of parliamentary debates and interviews with leading policy-makers.
Strategic Culture and Italy's Military Behavior
Title | Strategic Culture and Italy's Military Behavior PDF eBook |
Author | Paolo Rosa |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 159 |
Release | 2016-04-21 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1498522823 |
Italy, although it considers itself to be a middle-sized power on par with France, the United Kingdom, and Germany, has been incapable of playing an international role comparable to theirs, instead keeping a low-profile foreign policy. This has not been due to any material constraints—Italy’s profile has remained consistently low, through economic times both good and bad—but rather to the country’s strategic culture, a mixture of realpolitik and pacifist tendencies. This book sets out to analyze the influence of Italy’s strategic culture on its foreign policy. It conducts an exploratory case-study to show if hypotheses generated by the strategic culture approach can shed some light on the puzzling Italian behavior in the international arena (puzzling because Italy shows a less assertive foreign policy vis-à-vis other middle powers in the same rank). The first chapter considers the main interpretations of Italian foreign policy and their limitations. The second and third chapters review the literature on strategic culture, stressing its utility for the Italian case. The fourth chapter describes the country’s strategic culture through the Liberal, Fascist, and Republican periods, and the fifth chapter analyzes the influence of ideational factors on Italy’s behavior abroad. Conclusions sum up the various emerging evidences. Scholars of political science, international relations, strategic studies, and comparative politics will find this work to be of interest.
Mussolini and His Generals
Title | Mussolini and His Generals PDF eBook |
Author | John Gooch |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 516 |
Release | 2007-12-24 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0521856027 |
Study of the relationship between the military and foreign policies of Fascist Italy, 1922 to 1940.
Transforming Italy's Military for a New Era
Title | Transforming Italy's Military for a New Era PDF eBook |
Author | Centro militare di studi strategici (Italy) |
Publisher | Rubbettino Editore |
Pages | 82 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 9788849807851 |
The Role of Italian Fighter Aircraft in Crisis Management Operations: Trends and Needs
Title | The Role of Italian Fighter Aircraft in Crisis Management Operations: Trends and Needs PDF eBook |
Author | Vincenzo Camporini |
Publisher | Edizioni Nuova Cultura |
Pages | 148 |
Release | 2014-08-16 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 8868123290 |
Italian combat aircraft have played an increasing important role in the international missions in which Italy has participated in the post-Cold War era – from the First Gulf War to Libya, including Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo and Afghanistan. This participation has been a significant tool of Italy’s defense policy, and therefore of its foreign policy towards crisis areas relevant to its national interests (from the Western Balkans to the Mediterranean), as well as towards its most important allies within NATO and the EU. This IAI publication analyses the role of these military capabilities in recent operations and their prospects for the future. In fact, a number of trends can be inferred from the operational experience in ten international missions, in which Italy deployed more than 100 combat aircraft in more than 13,000 sorties, clocking up 36,000 flight hours. These trends are considered in light of the recent developments in the doctrine of Air Power, as well as possible future scenarios for the use of combat aircraft in crisis theaters. The aim of the analysis is to understand the needs of the Italian Armed Forces – the Air Force and Navy in particular – which will have to replace a substantial portion of their current combat fleets in the near future due to the gradual obsolescence of the aircraft in service – an operational necessity linked to the inevitable political decisions regarding the options available in the field of military procurement for maintaining the capabilities required so far for international missions. In this context, the study looks into the acquisition of F-35 aircraft, also considering the industrial aspects of a multinational program that will produce more than 3,000 units for over 12 countries.
The Transformation of the Armed Forces
Title | The Transformation of the Armed Forces PDF eBook |
Author | Michele Nones |
Publisher | Edizioni Nuova Cultura |
Pages | 176 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 8861348793 |
Information technology (IT) has had, and will continue to have, a deep impact on the defence sector. The most advanced countries, not only the U.S. but also France, Great Britain and Italy, over the past few years have undergone a transormation of their armed forces aimed at exploiting the strategic advantages of IT. The goal pursued in Europe, and also promoted by NATO, is Network Enabled Capability (NEC). That is combining equipment and soldiers, as well as different doctrinal, procedural, technical and organizational elements, into a single network to obtain their interaction in order to achieve substantial strategic superiority. In practice, this also occurs with a strong, efficient and secure telecommunications network, and through netcentric modernization of armed forces' capability and systems aimed at connecting them to the net. This research paper analyzes the military netcentric modernization and transformation programs - still in progress - in France, Britain and Italy, with special focus on the joint program led by the Italian army called "Forza NEC". Opportunities and challenges of "Forza NEC" have been considered according to the Italian armed force's requirements, developed during two decades of experience in international military operations, as well as in the light of the evolution of strategic doctrine at a European and transatlantic level. Particular attention has been devoted to the interaction between industry and the armed forces, and to the involvement of many Italian companies in different "Forza NEC" activities, as it represents one of the pillars of the procurement program.