![]() ![]() The army is an all-volunteer force of active-duty personnel. The headquarters of the Army General Staff are located in Rome opposite the Quirinal Palace, where the president of Italy resides. Its best-known combat vehicles are the Dardo infantry fighting vehicle, the Centauro tank destroyer and the Ariete tank and among its aircraft the Mangusta attack helicopter, recently deployed in UN missions. Since the end of the Cold War, the army has seen extensive peacekeeping service and combat in Afghanistan and Iraq. During the Cold War, the army prepared itself to defend against a Warsaw Pact invasion from the east. The army fought in colonial engagements in China, Libya, Northern Italy against the Austro-Hungarian Empire during World War I, Abyssinia before World War II and in World War II in Albania, Balkans, North Africa, the Soviet Union, and Italy itself. The army's history dates back to the Italian unification in the 1850s and 1860s. The Italian Army ( Italian: Esercito Italiano ) is the land-based component of the Italian Armed Forces. Military unit Dardo IFVs on an exercise in Capo Teulada Parata d'Eroi ("Heroes' parade") by Francesco Pellegrino,Ĥ November, National Unity and Armed Forces Dayģ Cavalier Crosses of the Military Order of Italy "The safeguard of the republic shall be the supreme law" ![]() Latin: Salus Rei Publicae Suprema Lex Esto ![]()
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