Role
Senior Associate Fellow at the Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI) and military historian; she was a Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington (2016-2023).
Bio
In 2004, he earned his PhD from the University of Milan with a study on Libya. He collaborated with the Pentagon and Secretary of Defense James Mattis as a consultant on Libya, and served as an advisor on the Maghreb for the Terna Group, Europe's leading electricity transmission grid operator. In September 2016, he testified before the US House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs on terrorism in Libya.
Since 2019, she has been a Senior Associate Fellow at ISPI; from 2016 to 2023, she was also a Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington.
A specialist in counterinsurgency tactics and strategies, she is a military historian with expertise in African colonies: her studies have included Libya and the Horn of Africa , as well as Afghanistan. She lectures at numerous military history conferences and has given lectures at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis.
In 2006, he developed the series The History of Fascism for RAI and in 2009, The Second World War, distributed by Il Corriere della Sera. He has published numerous historical books, including VINCERE! The Italian way of COIN: Libya and Ethiopia. 1922-1941 (Naval Institute Press, 2019). More recently, he published From Warlords to Statelords. Armed Groups and Power Trajectories in Libya and Yemen (Ledizioni, 2022) and Western Thoughts on Counterinsurgency: From the 17th Century to the Present (Routledge, 2026).