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The Chief of the Defence Staff of Italy is the service head of the
Italian Armed Forces The Italian Armed Forces (, ) encompass the Italian Army, the Italian Navy and the Italian Air Force. A fourth Military branch, branch of the armed forces, known as the Carabinieri, take on the role as the nation's Gendarmerie, military police an ...
. The current Chief of the Defence staff is General Luciano Portolano.


History

The post was established in 1925 as Chief of the General Staff (''Capo di Stato Maggiore Generale''). From 1941 until 1945, it was ''Capo del
Comando Supremo ''Comando Supremo'' (Supreme Command) was the highest command echelon of the Italian Armed Forces between June 1941 and May 1945. Its predecessor, the ''Stato Maggiore Generale'' (General Staff), was a purely advisory body with no direct control ...
''. In 1947 it assumed its present name. The Chief of the Defense staff, since 1998, to exercise his duties, uses two joint bodies: * ''Stato maggiore della Difesa'' (Defense Staff) * '' Comando operativo di vertice interforze'' (Joint-top operational command)


List of chiefs of the defence staff


Kingdom of Italy (1925–1946)


Italian Republic (1945−present)


See also

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Italian Armed Forces The Italian Armed Forces (, ) encompass the Italian Army, the Italian Navy and the Italian Air Force. A fourth Military branch, branch of the armed forces, known as the Carabinieri, take on the role as the nation's Gendarmerie, military police an ...
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Royal Italian Army The Royal Italian Army () (RE) was the land force of the Kingdom of Italy, established with the proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy. During the 19th century Italy started to unify into one country, and in 1861 Manfredo Fanti signed a decree c ...
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Italian Army The Italian Army ( []) is the Army, land force branch of the Italian Armed Forces. The army's history dates back to the Italian unification in the 1850s and 1860s. The army fought in colonial engagements in China and Italo-Turkish War, Libya. It ...
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Chief of Staff of the Italian Army The chief of staff of the Italian Army refers to the chiefs of staff of the Royal Italian Army from 1882 to 1946 and the Italian Army from 1946 to the present. List of chiefs of staff Royal Italian Army (1882–1946) ...


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Italy Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land b ...