Ministero della Difesa

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The Military Center for Strategic Studies (Ce.Mi.SS), founded in 1987 and located at Palazzo Salviati in Rome, is headed by a Major General (Director) or an Officer of equivalent rank. The Center is organized on two departments (Strategic Monitoring-Research) and an External Relations Office. The activities are regulated by the Decree of the Minister of Defense 21 December 2012.

The Ce.Mi.S.S. carries out study and research activities on strategic, political and military matters for the needs of the Ministry of Defense. It contributes to the development of culture and knowledge in favor of the Italian national community.

The activities conducted by Ce.Mi.S.S. are focused to the study of political, economic, cultural, social and military phenomena and on the effect of the introduction of new technologies, or phenomena that determine appreciable changes in the security scenario. The level of analysis is strategic.

For the conduct of study and research activities, Ce.Mi.S.S. employs:

a) military and civilian personnel of the Ministry of Defense with suitable experience and professional qualification. These personnel is employed by means of temporary postings, on the basis of the provisions given by the Chief of Defense on an annual basis, after consultation with the Secretary General of the Defense / National Director of Armaments;

b) collaborators not belonging to the public administration, (selected in compliance with specific provisions established on the basis of the subject of the study among experts of proven specialization).

For the development of culture and knowledge of matters of interest to the Defense, Ce.Mi.S.S. establishes collaborations with universities, institutes and research centers, Italian or foreign, and publishes the studies of greater interest.

The Minister of Defense, after consulting the Chief of Defense, in agreement with the Secretary General of the Defense / National Director of Armaments, for the themes of respective interest, issues the directives regarding strategic research activities, establishing the general guidance for the analysis and collaboration activities with the homologous institutions and defining the study subjects for the Ce.Mi.SS.

The researchers are free to express their thoughts on the topics. The content of the published studies reflects exclusively the thinking of individual authors, not official position of the Ministry of Defense or of any military and / or civil institutions to which the researchers themselves belong