List of Italian military operations
(Incomplete) list of Italian military missions abroad (usually without war participation ):
Before 1945
- Crete (1897–1906; with the United Kingdom, Russia and France because of clashes between Christians and Muslims)
- Venezuela Crisis (1902-1903)
- Albania (1914–1920)
- Macedonia (1916–1918)
- Sinai Peninsula (1917-1919)
- Murmansk Oblast (1918-1919)
- Manchuria (1918-1920)
- Turkey , Constantinople , Dardanelles (1918–1923)
- Turkey, southwestern Anatolia (1919–1922)
- Upper Silesia (1920–1922; referendum in Upper Silesia )
- Thrace (1925; armistice between Greeks and Bulgarians)
- Saar area (1934–1935)
- China, Shanghai (1937–1938; protection of international missions because of the Sino-Japanese War )
UN operations
- Italian Trust Territory Somalia (1950–1960)
- ONUC - Democratic Republic of the Congo (1960–1962)
- UNIFIL - Lebanon (since 1979)
- UNTAG - Namibia (1989–1990)
- UNOCA - Afghanistan (March 1989 - October 1990)
- UNOSOM - Operation Ibis - Somalia (1992-1994)
- ONUMOZ - Operation Albatros - Mozambique (1993-1994)
- UNMIBH - IPTF - Bosnia-Herzegovina
- UNMIS - Operation Nilo - Sudan (2005-2006)
NATO missions
- Operation Deliberate Force - Ex- Yugoslavia (1995)
- IFOR / SFOR - Bosnia-Herzegovina (1995-2004)
- Operation Joint Guarantor - Macedonia (1998–1999)
- Operation Allied Force - Serbia , Kosovo (1999)
- KFOR - Kosovo (since 1999)
- Operation Allied Harbor - Albania (1999)
- Operation Essential Harvest - Macedonia ( 2001 )
- Operation Active Endeavor - Eastern Mediterranean (since 2001)
- Operation Amber Fox - Allied Harmony - Macedonia (2002-2003)
- Operation Sparviero - ISAF - Afghanistan (since 2003; 08 / 05-05 / 06 NRDC-IT )
- Operation Allied Provider - Piracy off the Somali coast (2008)
EU operations
- EUFOR - Concordia - Macedonia (2003)
- EUFOR - Althea - Bosnia-Herzegovina (since 2004)
- EUFOR - RD Congo - DR Congo (2006, air transport)
- EUTM Somalia (since 2010)
- EUTM Mali (since 2013)
- EUFOR RCA - Central African Republic (since 2014)
Further international assignments
- Operations Lebanon 1 and Lebanon 2 (1982-1984)
- Mine clearance operation in the Red Sea / 14º Gruppo navale (1984)
- Desert Shield / Desert Storm - Persian Gulf , Iraq , Kuwait (1990–1991)
- Operation Airone - Kurdistan (1991)
- Operation Ippocampo - Rwanda (1994)
- Operation Alba - Albania (1997)
- Operation Stabilize - East Timor (1999-2000)
- ISAF - Afghanistan (2002-2003)
- Operation Enduring Freedom / Nibbio - Afghanistan (since 2003)
- Operation Enduring Freedom / Mare Sicuro - Indian Ocean (since 2003)
- Operation Antica Babilonia - Iraq (2003-2006)
National missions
- Missione Golfo - Naval Association 18º Gruppo navale - Persian Gulf (1987–1988)
- Missione Pellicano - Albania (1991–1993)
- Mare Nostrum (naval operation) (2013-2014; follow-up deployment to OSSMMC since 2014, alongside Triton)
Observer missions
- UNMOGIP - India and Pakistan (since 1949)
- UNTSO - Syria , Israel , Lebanon , Egypt (since 1958)
- MINURSO - Western Sahara (since 1991)
- UNIIMOG - Iran and Iraq (August 1988 - February 1991)
- UNIKOM - Iraq and Kuwait (1991-2003)
- UNAVEM - Angola (1995)
- MONUC - Congo (1999-2003)
- UNMEE - Ethiopia and Eritrea (since 2000)
- UNOWA - Senegal (2004-2005)
- Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) - Sinai (since 1982)
- OSCE / KVM - Kosovo (since 1998)
- EUMM - Yugoslavia (since 1991)
- JMM / JMC - Sudan (since 2000)
Military advice and technical support
- Malta (since 1973)
- Morocco (1977–1990)
- Somalia (with interruptions since 1983)
- Kuwait (1990)
- Albania (since 1997)
- Libya (since 2011)