Ministero della Difesa

On 17 November 2006 in Rome, the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA) of Alexandria, Virginia, USA, and the Centro Militare di Studi Strategici (CeMiSS) of the Centro Alti Studi per la Difesa (CASD) conducted the second of three prospective joint research conferences on US and Italian approaches to security issues of the Mediterranean area. The topic of the meeting was a comparison of US and European policies in the expanding context of European and Mediterranean Security.
The conference involved presentations by CNA and CeMiSS researchers (Dr. Henry Gaffney, Dr. Daniel Whiteneck, Captain Thaddeus Moyseowicz, USN (Retired), Captain Mark Rosen, USN (Retired) and Dr. Lucio Martino). Commentaries were provided by Dr. Alessandro Politi and Mr. Roberto Menotti. A question and answer period followed.
The meeting was notable for the significant participation by the President of Centro Alti Studi per la Difesa (CASD), Lt. Gen. Giuseppe Valotto, the Director of CeMiSS, R. Adm. Luciano Callini, and the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Italian Navy, V. Adm. Luciano Zappata, and over a dozen flag officers representing all three branches of the Italian services. On the whole, the conference was attended by over sixty officers and defense community experts, including international students from the Istituto Superiore di Stato Maggiore Interforze, (ISSMI, the Italy’s school for international officer military education).

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