Call for Papers: European Initiative on Security Studies Annual Conference
Also this year we are pleased to highlight the European Initiative on Security Studies (EISS) Annual Conference. Here you'll find all the details of the Call for Papers.
The European Initiative on Security Studies is a Europe-wide multidisciplinary network of scholars from over eighty universities that share the goal of consolidating security studies in Europe.
The third annual conference of the European Initiative on Security Studies will be held at Sciences Po, in Paris, on 27-28 June 2019. It is organized by the EISS board, within the framework of the French Association for the Study of War and Strategy (AEGES) and in collaboration with the Center for International Studies (CERI) of Sciences Po.
There are "open" and "closed" panels (which focus on themes decided by the EISS, see again the program of the conference)
15 January 2019 is the deadline for sending paper proposals to the panel chairs (cf. emails below) and panel proposals to the EISS (eissnetwork@gmail.com).
Among amazing panels, we point out:
Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism (Chair: Peter Neumann)
Military Interventions (Chair: Chiara Ruffa)
Defense Cooperation and Military Assistance (Chair: Adrian Hyde-Price)
Concluding Keynote Panel (Chair: Thierry Balzacq) Speakers: Stephen Brooks (Dartmouth College) & Barry Posen (MIT)
See you soon in Paris!!
Filed Under: Contemporary warfare, Defense in Europe Tagged With: Defense, EISS, Europe, Military Transformation, Paris, Terrorism
"Change in Security Organisations Between Internal and External Dynamics"
We are really pleased to shed light on an upcoming panel at the EISA (European International Studies Association Annual Conference) 12thPan-European Conference on International Relations: "A New Hope: Back to the Future of International Relations". The conference will be held in Prague (12-15 Settembre).
The panel is titled "Change in Security Organisations Between Internal and External Dynamics". "Our" Francesco Moro will partecipate with a paper (along with the other "VIA" Fabrizio Coticchia, and Andrea Locatelli).
Here and below the detail of the panel:
Session title:Change in Security Organisations Between Internal and External Dynamics
Track:S49: The Transformation of Security Institutions
Chair: Olivier Schmitt, Denmark
Discussant: Matthew Ford, United Kingdom
Rejecting Liberalism in Post-Genocide Rwanda: Failures in "Best-Practices (K. Carlson, University of Southern Denmark)
The Italian Defence Policy after the Cold War. Europeanisation, American Influence, or Strategic Adjustment? (A. Locatelli, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano; F.N. Moro, University of Bologna, F. Coticchia, University of Genoa)
From Spiritual Defense to Robust Resilience: A Genealogy of the Finnish Comprehensive Security Model (A.E. Hyvönen, University of Tampere, and T. Juntunen).
The Dictator's Learning Curve: Softening Authoritarianism in Repressive Post-Soviet Regimes. The Case of Kazakhstan within Regional Security Organisations (A. Marin, Collegium Civitas- Warsaw,
The US-Japan Alliance as an Institution for Security: the Changing Rationales, Scope, and Dynamics (Y. Sato, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, and E. Atanassova-Cornelis, University of Antwerp)
See you in Prague
Filed Under: Contemporary warfare, Defense in Europe, Italian military operations abroad, Italian Strategy and Doctrine Tagged With: EISA, Military Transformation
"Through military lenses". New research on officers' perceptions of military transformation
What do military officers think about force transformation? While the latter has been the object of a great deal of important research in the past decade (and more), the opinions and perceptions of servicemen have rarely been explored. To dig into what Italian Air Force officers think is the objective of latest fatigue of Fabrizio Coticchia and Francesco Moro, who, with their invaluable co-author Lorenzo Cicchi, just published an article on Defence Studies on the topic. The article, "Through military lenses. Perception of securitythreats and jointness in the Italian Air Force", used data from an original survey conducted among ITAF captains with two major objectives. First, the article focuses on servicemen's attitudes towards the transformations of the global security environment and the changes occurring (and needed) within the Italian Air Force. Second, the article provides preliminary statistical evidence on the links between individual experiences, views, and change. The article shows that officers' views of technology have a significant impact on their views about military transformation. To the extent to which it is possible, enjoy!
Filed Under: Contemporary warfare, Defense in Europe, Italian Strategy and Doctrine Tagged With: Aeronautica Militare Italiana, Difesa Italiana, Militari, Military perceptions, Military Transformation
Sisp Conference 2018. Call for papers (Italian military operations, Sahel, North Africa, defense, Europe, stabilisation…)
Several interesting panels at the next SISP (Società Italiana di Scienza Politica) Annual Conference (Torino, 6-8 September 2018).
Here you'll find the call for papers. Deadline: May, 20th.
Within the section of "International Relations", we are pleased to focus on the "Venus panels". Indeed, "our" Francesco Moro and Fabrizio Coticchia are the chairs of the following 3 panels:
Panel 8.5 Assisting them at their home? Italian and European Security Policies in Sahel and North Africa
Chair: Fabrizio Coticchia and Luca Raineri
In January 2018 Italy's parliament approved an increased military presence in Libya and the deployment of troops in Niger and Tunisia. As stated by the Italian government, the goals of the missions were to "guarantee stability in the area", providing security assistance and capacity building. Officially, Italy aims to support African countries mainly to "fight illegal trafficking of migrants and terrorism". In line with the last White Paper (2015), Italian Defense started to focus on the "Enlarged Mediterranean" as a key-strategic area, relocating troops from Afghanistan and Iraq to Sahel and Northern Africa. At the same time, several diplomatic and development initiatives have been planned in the region. Also, the EU and European countries (such as France) have been extremely active in Sahel and Northern Africa, with manifold political and military efforts. By combining different methodological approaches, as well as junior and senior scholars from different fields (IR, security studies, defense and foreign policy, area experts), the panel aims to investigate the patterns of (political and military) involvement of Italy, the EU and other European countries in the region. A comparative perspective and a multi-scalar focus would allow analyzing variations across national and multilateral approaches, but also reconfigurations at local level. The panel would like to collect papers that provide new evidence on the ways through which Italy, the EU, and other European countries have addressed the "instability at the Southern borders", especially concerning:
The main traits, problems, consequences, and opportunities in security-assistance approaches in the region;
A critical perspective on the securitization of, and responses to, "failed states", including capacity-building, state-building and stabilization;
The strategic shift of the Italian foreign policy towards Sahel and Northern Africa;
The coordination, cooperation, and conflicts between European countries, both at EU level as well as on the ground;
The security-development-migration nexus in the region
The decision-making processes that have led to the deployment of troops;
Different approaches and tensions in "the fight against illegal migration and terrorism";
The reconfiguration of local governance in the framework of influence competition and changing priorities of foreign assistance;
The ambiguous status of informal networks and non-state actors in the framework of security-assistance.
Panel 8.7 – Change and continuity in European states' defence policies
Chairs: Fabrizio Coticchia, Andrea Locatelli, Francesco Moro
European states are usually blamed for their reluctance to invest in defence policy. This is witnessed in particular by the mere lack of resources devoted to military assets, as well as the limited weight of defence issues in public debates. However, most – if not all – European states have transformed their defences since the end of the Cold War. Moreover, European armed forces have been deployed in complex military operations abroad, modifying doctrines and tactics on the ground. Reforms have been undertaken across the continent to adapt to the contemporary security context. Examples of this include the demise of the draft, collaborative procurement, multinational exercises and other initiatives. On top of that, since the launch of the European Defence Agency, the European Union has progressively – although erratically – gathered momentum as a catalyst for further cooperation. Also NATO has played a relevant role in shaping the military transformation in Europe.
Starting from these premises, the aim of the panel is to investigate on the defence policies of European states from a comparative perspective. As a result, essays are welcome that cover one or more of these topics:
– Empirical analyses of the defence policy of one or more European states.
Theoretical accounts of the evolution of one or more case studies.
In-depth analyses of individual defence policy initiatives and military innovation.
Theoretical and/or empirical investigations of the influence of the EU on one or more European States.
Theoretical and/or empirical investigations of the influence of NATO on one or more European States.
Panel 8.15 Stabilisation: a new framework for managing (in)security?
Chairs: Irene Costantini and Francesco N. Moro
Over the last decade, the international community has increasingly resorted to stabilisation missions as a new practice to engage in conflict-affected countries. Whether it is under a UN mandate or part of an ad-hoc coalition, stabilisation efforts are ongoing in countries such as Mali, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Iraq and Libya. Although their implementation remains vague and confused, at the core of stabilisation there is the notion of civil and military actions aimed at mitigating crises and creating resilient societies capable of withstanding shocks. As such, stabilisation has moved away from previously dominant frameworks of intervention in conflict-affected countries, such as peacebuilding and statebuilding. Indeed, stabilisation emerged in response to the failure of previous interventions (notably, Iraq and Afghanistan) and the doubts concerning the viability and possibility of building effective states in conflict-affected and fragile countries. The panel investigates what stabilisation is and how it is working as a framework for international action in conflict-affected countries. It questions international actors' convergent and divergent notions of stability and their operationalization through time and space. By inviting quantitative and qualitative analyses of diverse case studies, the panel aims at unravelling the components and underlying assumptions of stabilisation as well as at scrutinizing similarities and differences between cases. Furthermore, it seeks to explore whether stabilisation is based upon a novel interpretation of insecurity and whether it proposes new ways of governing it.
Send your papers through MySisp.
See you soon in Torino.
Filed Under: Contemporary warfare, Defense in Europe, Italian military operations abroad, Italian Strategy and Doctrine Tagged With: European Defense, Italian Defense, Military Transformation, Sahel, SISP
No time for Uncertainty. The European Defense and Security in the Time of Terror: Threats, Challenges and Opportunities
1 June 2017 by ViA Leave a Comment
We are organizing a panel at the next SGRI conference (Trento, June 29-July 1).
As reported in there website: The annual SGRI Conference is an opportunity for scholars throughout Italy to come together and discuss topics that are relevant to international relations. The 2017 Conference will be held for the sixth time in Trento from June 29th to July 1st and will be organized by IPLab (International Politics Laboratory), a joint venture involving the Bruno Kessler Foundation and the University of Trento.
Here you'll find a list of the all panels.
Here below the details of "our" panel ("No time for Uncertainty. The European Defense and Security in the Time of Terror: Threats, Challenges and Opportunities"):
Chair: Giampiero Cama (University of Genova)
Discussants: Francesco N. Moro (University of Bologna) & Fabrizio Coticchia (University of Genova)
Date: TBD
Room: Sala Grande
According to the European Union Global Strategy "terrorism, hybrid threats, economic volatility, climate change and energy insecurity" are significantly endangering Europe (EUGS, 2016). The EUGS emphasizes the need for an "appropriate level of ambition and strategic autonomy", enhancing common efforts especially on cyber, counterterrorism, energy and strategic communications. In other words, Member States should "move towards defence cooperation as the norm", providing a greater contribution to collective security, working closely with its allies and partners, such as NATO. The panel aims at collecting empirical papers that, through different methodological perspectives, try and understand how current transformations (political, such as Brexit and Trump election but also technological, such as the "rise" of drones) are impacting traditional European and national security practices.
The panel explores how Member States, as well as the EU, have faced so far the above- mentioned challenges, examining in details the following key-areas: (a) shared assessments of internal and external threats (e.g., Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance, including the role of Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems and satellite communications); (b) the evolution of digital capabilities to secure data, networks and critical infrastructure; (c) the transformation of (national and European) counter-terrorism; civil-military relations in operations; (d) the development of European procurement (especially regarding full- spectrum land, air, space and maritime capabilities); (e) the military doctrines at the national and regional level.
Confirmed Papers:
Edoardo Baldaro (Scuola Normale Superiore – Pisa), The EU in the Sahel: Assessing Strengths and Limits of the European Integrated Approach to Conflict
Nowadays the EU is facing renewed security threats coming from its instable Eastern and Southern borders. State fragility and civil conflicts in the peripheries are considered as factors that can endanger European internal security and cohesion, asking for concrete initiatives and responses by European institutions. The European Union Global Strategy (EUGS)introduces a new 'integrated approach to conflict and crisis', in order to propose innovative and shared solutions concerning conflict-management and crisis-relief.Adopting an ideational and social constructivist approach to the study of European foreign policy, this article aims to explore the "fragile state" and "resilience" concurring policy paradigms informing this new European strategic concept. Analysing the EU's initiatives in the Sahel, one of the regions where the EU elaborated and tested its renewed approach, the paper underlines ideational and practical weaknesses of the European action, focusing the attention on three dimensions: 1) inter-agency efficiency and cooperation; 2) EU – member states coordination; 3) effects on local governance and environment. We finally argue that even if the EUGS is going in the right direction, the EU still suffers from cognitive problems and lacks internal cooperation.
In the conclusion I argue that even if the EUGS is going in the right direction, the EU still suffers of cognitive and normative problems and pays a lack of internal cooperation, all factors that can still put into question the EU's approach to fragility and conflict in the South.
Eugenio Cusumano (Leiden University), Migrant Rescuing as Organised Hypocrisy: EU Maritime Missions Offshore Libya Beyond Humanitarianism and Border Control
In October 2014, the Italian Navy maritime Search and Rescue (SAR) operation offshore Libya Mare Nostrum was replaced by the EU border agency Frontex operation Triton, followed in 2015 by the Common Security and Defence Policy mission EUNAVFOR Med 'Sophia'. Both Triton and EUNAVFOR have increasingly advertised their involvement in SAR operations. As the two missions focused on reducing illegal entries to Europe rather than SAR, their commitment to migrant rescuing was not matched by consistent action. This paper conceptualizes the mismatch between humanitarian rhetoric and activities primarily meant to reduce migrant flows as a form of organised hypocrisy. Based on a decoupling between talk and action, organised hypocrisy allowed EU maritime missions to reconcile contradictory pressures from their external environment, such as EU willingness to reduce maritime migrations and the normative imperative to act against the loss of life at sea
Artem Patalakh (University of Milan Statale), Soft Power Revisited: How Attraction Works in International Relations
The paper puts forward a constructivist interpretation of how Joseph Nye's soft power works in International Relations (IR). In particular, it focuses on the functioning of attraction, soft power's main pronounced mechanism. On the basis of a theoretical literature review, the author identifies three primary issues that require further specification in Nye's account, namely a clear disentanglement between hard and soft power, a psychological mechanism behind attraction and the relationship between agentic and structural forces in the soft power relationship. To address these issues, the author locates soft power in the constructivist IR paradigm, viewing power in its broadest terms (as including all the four "faces" of power). Then, the author applies French and Raven's typology of power bases to build a framework that classifies attraction into three types, each with a particular psychological mechanism: "rational" attraction (which means that actor A is positively evaluated by actor B of the basis of its actions that do not aim at other IR actors), "social" attraction (which implies that A is positively evaluated based on how it treats other IR actors) and "emotional" attraction (which happens if B is positively evaluated by A, because B is useful for A to fulfill its identity, its perceived position among other IR actors). Having said this, the author uses insight from social psychology to provide theoretical explanations for each type of attraction, illustrating them with relevant examples from contemporary international politics.
Mirco Elena (USPID)
See you soon in Trento…
Filed Under: Contemporary warfare, Defense in Europe, Italian military operations abroad, Italian Strategy and Doctrine Tagged With: EU defense, Italy, Libya, Military Transformation, Sahel, Security, SGRI
Venus in Arms at ISA Baltimore…Papers and Panels
Also this year Venus in Arms will be at the ISA Annual Convention, which will be held in Baltimore (22-25 February 2017). Almost 6000 attendees are estimated!
Here you can find all the info about the conference
Here you can browse the programme
Our Fabrizio Coticchia and Francesco Moro will present two papers. Here below some details on their (very promising) panels:
Military Learning
Thursday, February 23, 10:30 AM – 12:15 PM
The papers on this panel examine not only lessons learned, but the processes by which military organizations learn and update tactics and appraise their effectiveness. Some focus on internal pathways and others consider how lessons are learned by bystanders watching foreign wars.
Chair and Discussant: Terry Terriff (University of Calgary)
The Sources of Military Learning: Organisational Learning and Military Change during the Iraq War and ISAF – Tom Dyson (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Through military lenses. Security perceptions and learning in the case of Italian armed forces
– Lorenzo Cicchi (EUI – European University Institute), Fabrizio Coticchia (University of Genoa), and Francesco N Moro (University of Bologna)
The Influence of Foreign Wars on Domestic Military Policy: The Case of the Yom Kippur War's Influence on the American Military – Jonathan E. Czarnecki (Naval War College Monterey), Robert Tomlinson (U.S. Naval War College)
Explaining Military Tactics: Organizational Routines and the British Army in Multinational Missions – Cornelius Friesendorf (Goethe University Frankfurt and Peace Research Institute Frankfurt)
Forgetting the Past?: Vietnam, the Cold War, and US Army Doctrine from Active Defense to AirLand Battle – Peter Campbell (Baylor University)
Narrative encounters with foreign and security policy
Thursday, February 23, 1:45 PM – 3:30 PM
It has been suggested that we in International Studies have witnessed something of a 'narrative turn' in recent years; this 'turn' has manifest in several ways. First, scholars have begun to elicit narrative accounts of the life experiences of their research participants, to understand how people in various institutions narrate their own subjectivity. Second, analysts have turned to narrative materials – fiction books, journals, blogs – as rich sources of information about global politics. Third, researchers have begun to treat global policies and documentary materials (such as presidential statements, reports, and resolutions) as forms of narrative, and investigated these sources for the presence of meta-narratives, the better to understand how we make sense of such materials through our story-telling capabilities. This panel contributes to debates about narrative in all three of these ways, and in so doing represents a methodological, theoretical, and empirical contribution to this emerging field of study.
Chair: Michael Alan Lewis (George Mason University)
Discussant: Laura Mills (University of St Andrews)
Feeling Unsafe ~ Exploring the Impact of Nuclear Evacuation – Ronni Alexander (Kobe University)
Narratives of border crossing among Syrian refugees arriving into Germany – Isis Nusair (Denison University)
A different story: strategic narratives, security issues and peace movements in Italy – Andrea Catanzaro (University of Genova) and Fabrizio Coticchia (University of Genoa )
(In)security, violence and masculinity –ontological narratives of the Black Sea Region in the 21st century – Ivan Cristina Mihaela (The National Intelligence Academy Mihai Viteazul)
See you soon in Baltimore
Filed Under: Contemporary warfare, Defense in Europe, Italian military operations abroad Tagged With: ISA2017, Military Transformation, narratives
The Transformation of Italian Armed Forces in Comparative Perspective – Book presentation
11 December 2015 by ViA Leave a Comment
Venus in Arms will present "its book" on the transformation of Italian Armed Forces at the University of Genoa (on next Monday, December 14th, 3pm, DISPO, Albergo dei Poveri, P.le E. Brignole, 2)
In a previous post we have already illustrated the seminars organized by the University of Genoa on the evolution of contemporary security. We are really glad to present our book within such framework.
Here you'll find a detailed description of the manuscript:"The Transformation of Italian Armed Forces in Comparative Perspective. Adapt, Improvise, Overcome?", F.Coticchia and F.N. Moro (Ashgate, 2015).
Here below a summary of the book:
European armed forces have undergone deep changes in the past two decades. Given the breadth of the debate and the size of transformations that took place, it is somewhat surprising that relatively few academic studies have directly dealt with changes in force structure of European militaries, and the Italian armed forces in particular. The focus of this book is the organizational dimension of the restructuring of armed forces through 3 different lenses: doctrine and strategic framework, budget and resource allocation, and force structure and deployment. The key issues addressed relate to how these factors interact in shaping transformation. Of particular interest is the theme of learning, which is how armed forces endogenize change in the short and long run. This study provides valuable insights into the extent to which armed forces manage to adapt to the emerging strategic and operational challenges they have to face and to illustrate the weight of institutional legacies, resource constraints and inter-organizational learning in shaping transformation. Focusing on the Italian case in comparative perspective and based on a large variety of military operations from airstrikes to peacekeeping and counterinsurgency, the book provides an innovative viewpoint on military transformation and significantly contributes to our understanding of contemporary security that is deeply shaped by the lessons learnt in Afghanistan, Lebanon, Iraq and Libya.
Here you can download the introduction.
See you soon in Genoa.
Filed Under: Contemporary warfare, Defense in Europe, Italian military operations abroad, Italian Strategy and Doctrine Tagged With: Ashgate, Military Transformation
ViA 2015: La trasformazione militare italiana (e molto altro)
Terminata la pausa estiva, Venus in Arms è di nuovo pronto a rituffarsi sui temi della difesa e della sicurezza (e molto altro). In questo breve post di inizio Settembre illustreremo brevemente gli argomenti che saranno al centro della nostra attenzione nei prossimi mesi, nei quali cercheremo sempre di collegare analisi e studi "accademici" a riflessioni legate al dibattito corrente.
Primo aspetto al centro del nostro lavoro sarà la trasformazione militare italiana, ovvero l'argomento del nostro ultimo libro. Il volume analizza il processo di cambiamento delle forze armate italiane nel nuovo secolo, attraverso una prospettiva comparata (Francia e Gran Bretagna). L'analisi illustra l'interazione tra alcune dimensioni della trasformazione (budget, impiego sul campo, dottrina) e la loro influenza sul percorso di cambiamento e adattamento avvenuto negli ultimi anni nella Difesa italiana. Attraverso interviste, documenti ufficiali e fonti secondarie sono state esaminate in dettaglio le operazioni in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libano e Libia.
Una particolare attenzione è stata dedicata alla dimensione istituzionale del cambiamento. In linea con quest'ultimo aspetto, in futuro ci focalizzeremo sulla dimensione dell'apprendimento, attraverso survey e questionari.
Nelle prossime settimane organizzeremo alcuni seminari di presentazione del libro, che riporteremo per tempo sul blog. Un po' di pubblicità non fa mai male, naturalmente.
Un altro aspetto che continuerà ad occupare costantemente le pagine di Venus sarà la Difesa italiana, soprattutto alla luce della pubblicazione dell'ultimo Libro Bianco e della riforme ad esso collegate. Stiamo lavorando proprio sull'ultimo documento strategico e a breve saranno qui riportati i risultati delle nostre analisi.
In chiave comparata ci dedicheremo poi al rapporto tra l'evoluzione della Difesa italiana e quella tedesca avvenuta nell'era post-bipolare. Abbiamo già passato un po' di tempo di Germania per interviste e analisi. Quindi aspettatevi un bel po' di materiale da leggere e discutere (non in tedesco, tranquilli).
Una parte consistente del nostro lavoro sarà poi dedicata ai temi della political violence, del ruolo della criminalità organizzata (nazionale e transnazionale), dei conflitti contemporanei.
Al tema dei foreign fighters saranno dedicati alcuni post, i quali riporteranno i risultati di alcuni analisi che abbiamo condotto di recente in merito al caso dell'ISIL.
Non ci dimenticheremo del controverso tema degli F-35, cercando però di spostare la discussione da una prospettiva budget-driven a qualcosa di più articolato, come fatto in passato.
La sicurezza europea, scossa dalle crisi interne e regionali e dal dramma immane dei profughi, non potrà che essere esaminata in dettaglio, così come la trasformazione della NATO.
Infine, i guest-post cercheranno di ampliare l'orizzonte interdisciplinare di ViA, da analisi tradizionali di Relazioni Internazionali agli studi di intelligence fino ai "nuovi" metodi di insegnamento in materia di IR, sicurezza e scienza politica. Ogni contributo alla discussione è ben accetto ovviamente.
Sarete sempre tenuti al corrente dei principali appuntamenti con conferenze e seminari (in più qualche dettaglio sulle trasferte che faremo in Europa League).
Insomma, molta carne al fuoco. Senza dimenticarci l'appuntamento settimanale con la nostra Top-5, che raccoglie i migliori "5 pezzi facili" che provengono da blog, riviste, giornali di tutto il mondo. La dimensione "pop" del sito non verrà trascurata, soprattutto nella spasmodica attesa del nuovo capitolo di Star Wars.
Filed Under: Contemporary warfare, Defense in Europe, Italian military operations abroad, Italian Strategy and Doctrine, Pop-defense (Mos Eisley) Tagged With: Afghanistan, Ashgate, COIN, Conferences, Defense, Defense budget, Europa League, Fiorentina, Foreign Fighters, German defense, Germany, Intellgence, Iraq, Italy, Lebanon, Libro Bianco, Libya, Mafia, Military Transformation, Organized crime, Star Wars, Stasr
13 July 2015 by ViA Leave a Comment
We are pleased to announce that we've just received the first copies of our book: "The Transformation of Italian Armed Forces in Comparative Perspective. Adapt, Improvise, Overcome?", F. Coticchia and F.N. Moro, Ashgate, 2015.
Here you'll find the full contents list.
Here the first reviews.
We consider the manuscript as the ViA's book. The blog will provide you further details on our research on military transformation in Europe. First of all, here you can download the introduction.
Let us know what do you think about…
Filed Under: Contemporary warfare, Defense in Europe, Italian military operations abroad, Italian Strategy and Doctrine Tagged With: Afghanistan, Ashgate, Clint Eastwood, France, Innovation, Iraq, Italy, Learning, Lebanon, Libya, Military Transformation, UK