Rolando Mosca Moschini

Rolando Mosca Moschini (pronounced Moskini ; born March 9, 1939 in Terni , Umbria ) is an Italian general . He was u. a. Chief of Staff of the Italian Armed Forces and Chairman of the EU Military Committee . Mosca Moschini, who is still in active service despite his age, currently serves as an advisor on military affairs to the Italian President .

Career

Mosca Moschini is the son of an Italian officer . His father died in North Africa during World War II . Mosca Moschini attended the Nunziatella military high school in Naples , where he graduated from high school in 1957 . He was then trained as an officer at the military academy in Modena and Turin until 1961 . Mosca Moschini later studied sociology and international relations . After completing a course at the Artillery School in Bracciano , he served from 1962 to 1968 in two artillery regiments in northern Italy, a. a. as battery boss . From 1968 to 1971 Mosca Moschini completed a general staff course at the Army Command Academy in Civitavecchia , after which he served briefly with a corps staff and then joined the staff of the 3rd Infantry Division of the British Army in Great Britain as part of an exchange program from 1972 to 1974 .

After his return to Italy he worked with the General Staff of the Army in Rome and then took over command of an artillery battalion in Friuli . From 1980 to 1983 Mosca Moschini was the Italian military attaché in London , after which he was commander of the Vittorio Veneto tank brigade in Trieste for a year . In the following years he was again active in the Army General Staff. From 1987 to 1989 he commanded the Granatieri di Sardegna Brigade in Rome and then attended the Armed Forces Leadership Academy ( CASD ) there until 1990 . He then headed the operations department (G3) of the Army General Staff, where he was a. a. had to deal with the flow of refugees from Albania , with securing critical facilities during the Second Gulf War and with an aid mission by Italian troops in northern Iraq (Kurdish refugees).

General Mosca Moschini with Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

From 1991 to 1993 he held the post of Deputy Secretary General of the intelligence coordinating body CESIS , after which he worked for the Italian UN agency in New York . a. as a member of the Italian delegation to the UN Security Council (95/96). After briefly the III. Corps in Milan , in 1997 he became head of the Guardia di Finanza , a militarily organized police force of the Italian Ministry of Finance.

On April 1, 2001, Rolando Mosca Moschini succeeded General Mario Arpino on the post of Chief of Staff of the Italian Armed Forces. Mosca Moschini held the post of Chief of Staff until March 9, 2004, when he was replaced by Admiral Giampaolo Di Paola . On April 9, 2004, Mosca Moschini took over the chairmanship of the EU military committee in Brussels , which he held until November 6, 2006.

General Rolando Mosca Moschini is currently the military advisor to the Italian President, who, according to the Italian Constitution, is Chairman of the “Supreme Defense Council” ( Consiglio Supremo di Difesa ) and the Supreme Commander of the Italian Armed Forces .

Awards

Web links

CV (Italian)

Individual evidence

↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF file; 6.59 MB)

personal data
SURNAME	Mosca Moschini, Rolando
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian officer, Chief of Staff of the Italian Armed Forces (2001-2004)
DATE OF BIRTH	March 9, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH	Terni

[1] List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF file; 6.59 MB)