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The Operational Land Forces Command ( Italian: Comando delle Forze Operative Terrestri, abbreviation: COMFOTER) is the continuously operational command of the army. The command is headquartered in Rome. In case of war, outside of NATO's command structure, it would command the army's units.
Structure of the Italian Army in 1984 1986 reform. In 1986 the remaining four divisional headquarters were dissolved and all brigades in Northern Italy came under direct command of the Army's three Army Corps, while the brigades in Central and Southern Italy came under operational control of the local administrative Military Regions.
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Esercito Italiano
The ground force of Italy, the Regio Esercito dates back to the unification of Italy in the 1850s and 1860s. It fought in colonial engagements in China during the Boxer Rebellion, against the Ottoman Empire in Libya (1911-1912), on the Alps against the Austro-Hungarian Empire during World War I, in Abyssinia during the Interwar period, and in World War II in Albania, Greece, North Africa and Russia, as well as in the Italian Civil War. During the Cold War the Army prepared itself to defend ag...
Marina Militare
The navy of Italy was created in 1861, following the proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy, as the Regia Marina. The new navy's baptism of fire came during the Third Italian War of Independence against the Austrian Empire. During the First World War, it spent its major efforts in the Adriatic Sea, fighting the Austro-Hungarian Navy. In the Second World War, it engaged the Royal Navy in a two-and-a-half-year struggle for the control of the Mediterranean Sea. After the war, the new Marina Milita...
Aeronautica Militare
The air force of Italy was founded as an independent service arm on 28 March 1923, by King Vittorio Emanuele III as the Regia Aeronautica (which equates to "Royal Air Force"). During the 1930s, it was involved in its first military operations in Ethiopia in 1935, and later in the Spanish Civil War between 1936 and 1939. Eventually, Italy entered World War II alongside Germany. After the armistice of 8 September 1943, Italy was divided into two sides, and the same fate befell the Regia Aeronau...
Italy has joined in many UN, NATO and EU operations as well as with assistance to Russia and the other CIS nations, Middle East peace process, peacekeeping, and combating the illegal drug trade, human trafficking, piracy and terrorism. Italy did take part in the 1982 Multinational Force in Lebanon along with US, French and British troops. Italy als...
Italian soldier with a Beretta ARX160assault rifle.International Institute for Strategic Studies (25 February 2021). The Military Balance 2021. London: Routledge. ISBN 9781032012278.
Italian Army Outline Army Structure. Notes: (1) This is the NATO headquarters for a Rapidly Deployable Corps (RDC) operating under the direct command of the NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR). There are 5 x NATO RDC and in any emergency various NATO nations would assign troops to these RDC as required.
The General Staff of the Army is organized in a Department, a Directorate five Divisions, two general Offices each of them dedicated to a specific subject. Here below you can find a brief description about the tasks and the structure of each Units.
In addition, the Italian Army has a great interest in exploring the potential of a future multinational helicopter program, the next-generation rotorcraft capability, MGRC, jointly with France, Germany, Greece, and the U.K. But we also see great potential in the future vertically, the FVL, which is generating very high interest.
The general structure of the Army, provided for since 1873 in front line, 2 nd line and 3 rd line, was actualized in 1910 by the establishment of moving Militia nucleus (2 nd line) for each Deposit in infantry, cavalry, field artillery regiments and an Alpine battalion.
