Articles tagged with: Afghanistan

Lessons Learned from Afghanistan

Adm. Ferdinando Sanfelice di Monteforte
President of the Military Commission of the Italian Atlantic Committee

The Strategic Concepts of the "Collective Security Organizations" are particularly relevant to Italy given its "Participation Strategy" in crisis management operations. These committments require the preservation of a "Respectable Force" to safeguard national "Permanent Interests".

Security and Stability in Eurasia and Beyond

Gen. C.A. Giovanni Marizza Lt. Gen. Giovanni Marizza
Steering Board of the Italian Atlantic Committee

Looking at the NATO’s partnership programs, we can state that NATO is second to no other international organisation for dialogue and co-operation with countries outside its own area. But surprisingly Asia is almost completely neglected by the NATO’s outreach initiatives. That is why a dialogue with SCO, the “Shanghai Co-operation Organisation”, must be promptly launched.

Speech at the Italian Chamber of Deputies

We stay in Afghanistan to defend liberty and our values

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Liberty and our values do not need to be ‘exported’, but they need to be preserved and defended. This is also done by intervening where the threats to our security originate, much like the armed forces from Italy and other NATO members are doing in Afghanistan.