Vincere
«For her book Vincere, Dr. Federica Saini Fasanotti picked out one of the most difficult moments in contemporary Italian military history and relentlessly and perfectly illuminated the Italian attacks on Libya and Ethiopia (Abyssinia). She has also compiled and evaluated the considerable costs for both sides. As a reader you can feel her many years of experience in the field of counterinsurgency warfare and the passion with which she devotes herself to this topic. It is a must for anyone concerned with counterinsurgency." --German Gen. Wolf Langheld, commander, North Atlantic Treaty Organization Allied Joint Force Command (JFC) "This fine analysis is my favorite kind of military history--engaging, innovative, concise, and highly purposeful. Fede is highly respectful towards the subjects of her book, and kind as well as highly educational towards the reader. Bravo!" --Michael O�Hanlon, Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Director of Research - Foreign Policy, The Sydney Stein, Jr. Chair, The Brookings Institution "The extensive and in-depth work done by Dr. Fasanotti on the Italian army�s colonial counterinsurgency operations in Africa in the twenties and thirties deserves our outmost appreciation. It is of great credit to Dr. Fasanotti to have brought these facts and lessons back to our attention. She deserves our full admiration and appreciation." --Admiral Giampaolo Di Paola, Former Chief of Defence of Italy, former Chairman of NATO Military Committee, former Minister of Defence of Italy "Packed with timeless lessons, no other account rivals this skillful dissection of Italian counterinsurgency in Africa. Dr. Fasanotti�s rigorously researched gem is now the standard, revealing as it does the human factors and strategies that dominate war." --General Jim Mattis, USMC (Ret.), United States Secretary of Defense, 2017 to 2018»
Vincere! presents an overview of the counterinsurgency operations carried out by the Italian Royal Army from 1922 to 1941 in Libya and Ethiopia. Based on ten years of study conducted in the Italian archives and on the ground, this volume looks at a period when the Italian Royal Army faced significant new challenges in the conduct of war. Les mer
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Italian forces faced local populations while conducting counterinsurgency (COIN) operations in what was, for them, a new theater of war. In Libya, the rebellion was quelled in the space of ten years, at an admittedly high price for the regional forces. In Ethiopia, where COIN operations were interrupted by World War II, the available data suggests that military actions, accompanied by a more responsible policy toward the population, would have eventually defeated the insurgency. The use of airpower in Ethiopia made a huge difference, and its lessons were learned long before the French experience in Algeria. The Italians waged counterinsurgency operations over twenty years in two geographically separate theaters, and in two very different operational environments and much of value for current practitioners and scholars can be learned from these different experiences.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Naval Institute Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781682474280
- Utgivelsesår
- 2020
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
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«For her book Vincere, Dr. Federica Saini Fasanotti picked out one of the most difficult moments in contemporary Italian military history and relentlessly and perfectly illuminated the Italian attacks on Libya and Ethiopia (Abyssinia). She has also compiled and evaluated the considerable costs for both sides. As a reader you can feel her many years of experience in the field of counterinsurgency warfare and the passion with which she devotes herself to this topic. It is a must for anyone concerned with counterinsurgency." --German Gen. Wolf Langheld, commander, North Atlantic Treaty Organization Allied Joint Force Command (JFC) "This fine analysis is my favorite kind of military history--engaging, innovative, concise, and highly purposeful. Fede is highly respectful towards the subjects of her book, and kind as well as highly educational towards the reader. Bravo!" --Michael O�Hanlon, Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Director of Research - Foreign Policy, The Sydney Stein, Jr. Chair, The Brookings Institution "The extensive and in-depth work done by Dr. Fasanotti on the Italian army�s colonial counterinsurgency operations in Africa in the twenties and thirties deserves our outmost appreciation. It is of great credit to Dr. Fasanotti to have brought these facts and lessons back to our attention. She deserves our full admiration and appreciation." --Admiral Giampaolo Di Paola, Former Chief of Defence of Italy, former Chairman of NATO Military Committee, former Minister of Defence of Italy "Packed with timeless lessons, no other account rivals this skillful dissection of Italian counterinsurgency in Africa. Dr. Fasanotti�s rigorously researched gem is now the standard, revealing as it does the human factors and strategies that dominate war." --General Jim Mattis, USMC (Ret.), United States Secretary of Defense, 2017 to 2018»