1st Edition

The Transformation of Italian Armed Forces in Comparative Perspective Adapt, Improvise, Overcome?

162 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Military Transformation; Chapter 3 Force Transformation; Chapter 4 Force Deployment and Field Experience from Afghanistan to Libya; Chapter 5 Patterns of Learning and Change; Chapter 6 Conclusions;

Biography

Fabrizio Coticchia is Research Fellow at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (Pisa). He obtained a PhD in Political Systems and Institutional Change at the IMT (Lucca Institute for Advanced Studies). His fields of research are contemporary warfare, strategic culture, public opinion and military operations, Italian and European defence policy, development cooperation. He holds postgraduate courses on geopolitics, theories of international relations and security studies. Francesco N. Moro is a Research Fellow at the University of Milan-Bicocca. His research focuses on defence and national security policies, regular and irregular armed groups, organized crime and collective violence. He has taught/conducted research at the University of Florence, MIT's Center for International Studies, Johns Hopkins University Bologna Center, and at The Institute of Military Aeronautical Sciences of the Italian Air Force.

'Overall, the book is well structured, comprehensible and certainly succeeds in opening the “black box” of change... The volume is suited for an audience that already has a background in IR or Strategic Studies or is familiar with defence studies and wants to gain deeper insight into contemporary military organisations and their recent transformations.'--Karolina Muti, University of Bologna, The International Spectator