What do you think about.....

[easyand]

.....italian army and soldiers?
I'm doing a sounding.

[kenshiroIT]

I have a high opinion about Italian soldiers and they professionality.
Italy never lacked of good soldiers, but politicians!

[Lt-Col A. Tack]

I'd like to second that!

[Marsuitor]

Never had anything to do with Italian soldiers, but we trained a bit with the Carabinieri at some point. I must say they were a good bunch, professional and with real backbone.
One observation i've had with the Italians is that there seems to be a requirement for males to wear a donut beard in the armed forces. :lol:

[Khabbi]

They are always faking injuries , spitting on ppl , dont move the ball around enough , too selfish . No wait, thats the football team :D

[easyand]

They are always faking injuries , spitting on ppl , dont move the ball around enough , too selfish . No wait, thats the football team :D

I dont know if you have read the thread title but we re talking about italian army not italian national football team! :backhand:

[Roger Rabbit]

I have the bare minimum of knowledge about the modern Italian Army. If you've got infomation to contribute about the Italians then i'd be interested to read/see it.

[easyand]

tell me,what kind of informations?

[Roger Rabbit]

Size
Type of units
Equipment
Recent deployments
Rank structure
History(since 1943)

Any thing like that would be good.

[easyand]

If you know italian you can go at www.esercito.difesa.it
For the equipment: http://www.esercito.difesa.it/root/Sezioni/Sez_equipaggiamenti.asp

Recent deployments: Somalia 1992-1994
Kosovo 1999-now
Bosnia 1995-now
Macedonia 1998-now
Afghanistan 2002-now
Timor East 1999-2000
Albania 1991-1993 / 1997
Iraq 2003-now

[kenshiroIT]

what about www.analisidifesa.it it's a free online defence magazine, with a english section to.

[easyand]

yes but isn't simple to find the informations in the site