The meeting is part of the training
The event concluded in Florence on Wednesday 11 October at the’Institute of Air Force Military Sciences, the Brigadier General Seminar which featured 35 General Officers of the Armed Forces undertaking a process of updating, sharing, and reflecting on experiences and knowledge to acquire tools and stimulate strategic thinking. The meeting, which was opened by the address of the ISMA Commander, Air Vice-Marshal Giovanni Francesco Adamo, It is part of the training plan of the Air Force Schools Command and was organised by the Training and Management Department of ISMA, which is committed to constantly adapting the structured training activities based on feedback from previous editions.
The seminar was preceded by a day on strengthening skills in strategic thinking, Public speaking e Storytelling through the interventions conducted and moderated by Prof. Paolo Carmassi, in collaboration with Prof. Alessandro Lucchini, specialists in change management, simplification, and complexity reduction.
The Generals then addressed the topic of systemic analysis of scenarios and international relations through the lectures of Professor Luciano Bozzo, Professor Giulio Sapelli, and Professor Carlo Pelanda, focusing on several occasions on the roles that Italy, as a country system, can assume to address the multidimensional crises in which it is inevitably involved.
Following this, they delved into international security profiles with Dr. Antonio Sorrentino, followed by an oration by General of Air Division Enrico Pederzolli concerning the use of force between geopolitical competition and cognitive warfare, from an inter-force intelligence perspective.
On the final day, topics concerning the impact of new technologies in the multidomain were analysed with contributions from Dr. Fernando Salvetti and representatives from the Italian Institute of Technology in Genoa, namely Dr. Lorenzo De Michieli, Dr. Alessio Del Bue, and Dr. Marco Monga. Professor Panayotis Kantzas spoke about the risks of using Artificial Intelligence and its relationship with operator bias.
The seminar was attended by Chief of Staff of the Air Force, Air Squadrone General Luca Goretti, who updated the General Officers, also in the presence of Commander of the Air Force Schools, Air Chief Marshal Silvano Frigerio, on the programmes and challenges, at both a national and international level, that the Air Force will have to face in the near future to foster widespread awareness.
The’Air Force Military Sciences Institute It is an institution of higher learning and dissemination of aeronautical military doctrine. It is headed by a General Officer and is subordinate to the Commander of the Air Force Schools and the 3rd Air Region. The ’Giulio Douhet“ Air Force Military School, established in 2006, is in turn subordinate to ISMA. The Institute's mission is therefore broad and varied, also due to the specific nature of the entities and departments under its command. As an institute of higher learning, ISMA is tasked with raising the general, technical-scientific, and professional cultural level of Air Force Officers, developing and improving their preparation for the directive and management roles they will be assigned in the course of their careers.
