Very much agree with this assessment. My new book, To Run The World, has a large number of historical examples that - as we now know from the Soviet and the Chinese record - showed nuclear deterrence at work during the Cold War. If it hadn't worked, we would long have been dead.

Does anybody want to have an intellectual fight? Please go on. “Read Von Mises”. Golden

In case you are interested in why intercepting drones is not that difficult for modern air defenses, my co-authors are I wrote an article about this very topic (focusing on medium-altitude long-endurance drones).

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Maurizio da centro. Strategicamente, queste attività potrebbero avere una certa efficacia. Per ragioni politiche e in parte morali, l’Occidente non le svolge, con il risultato di rendere più sanguinoso il conflitto. Auto-deterrenza su misure non cinetiche.

CEO of Mistral Arthur Mensch: “The whole A.G.I. rhetoric is about creating God. I don’t believe in God. I’m a strong atheist. So I don’t believe in A.G.I.” A more imminent threat, he said, is the one posed by American AI giants to cultures around the globe nytimes.com/2024/04/12/bus…

#Italy debates armed forces' size in light of #UkraineRussiaWar . In 2022 the ceiling growth from 150.000 to 160.000, but the CHOD Forze Armate StatoMaggioreDifesa asks at least 170.000. Lowering the troops' age is also crucial, I comment here:
defensenews.com/global/europe/…
Istituto Affari Internazionali - IAI Venus in Arms Andrea Gilli

Robots are changing the U.S. Army's tactics.

The Army is considering a plan to add a platoon of robots, the equivalent of 20 to 50 human soldiers, to its armored brigade combat teams, which are the service’s bread-and-butter, tank-backed infantry units.

Here's how the…

Had lots of fun today talking to a big class full of students and young professionals from around Europe about NATO and the southern flank as part of Istituto Affari Internazionali - IAI’s #NATO Summer School. Thanks to all participants for the great questions! Ambasciata U.S.A. Alessia Chiriatti Andrea Gilli

Le porte-avions #CDG 🇫🇷 va passer sous commandement de l’ #OTAN pour la 1ère fois,reflétant notre engagement commun pour la coopération & l’interopérabilité. Ce navire maintient les voies maritimes vitales ouvertes & sécurisées,renforçant la vigilance de l’OTAN en mer Méditerranée

“Il Superbonus produce gettito fiscale”

E io che pensavo che un credito d’imposta, tra l’altro al 110%, consumasse gettito fiscale. Devo essermi perso qualche passaggio logico.

📰 “The notion that Scholz would avoid a NATO-Russian war by not delivering a sort of equipment—be it tanks or Taurus—is utterly ridiculous. Actually, the opposite is true' -
Gustav C. Gressel in Newsweek 👇buff.ly/3U1B4uj

I had the pleasure of re-reading this article by the late Dave Johnson and it is absolutely remarkable how prescient he was about the direction of the war in Ukraine. Do yourself a favor and give it a read: warontherocks.com/2022/05/would-…

Dice il direttorissimo del FQ: 'Conte ha governato il superbonus per 8 mesi, Draghi per 20 mesi , Meloni per 18 mesi e a Conte si danno tutte le colpe'.

Spieghiamo:
il DL 34 del 2020 è del Conte II, ministro delle finanze Gualtieri; il design del superbonus è stato voluto (e…

🌐 Prima giornata della #NATO Spring School presso lo Istituto Affari Internazionali - IAI. Lezione interessantissima di Alessandro Marrone sulla guerra Russia-Ucraina e simulazione di summit dell'Alleanza. Esperienza entusiasmante e di grande valore.
Ambasciata U.S.A. NATO Defense College Alessia Chiriatti Andrea Gilli

Super Micro Computer, che non produce armi, ha fatto +750%. Morale della favola: studiate finanza, non scienze neomelodiche.

Dal dividendo della pace al debito di guerra phastidio.net/2024/04/10/dal…

🇮🇹 Conti aggiornati #bonusedilizi .

#Superbonus : 160,3mld (incluso ecobonus e supersisma bonus)

#BonusFacciate e altri bonus: 58,7mld.

Totale: 219mld.

La più grande follia di finanza pubblica di sempre.