The Carabinieri, have been deployed countless times on peacekeeping missions, & as support for the Italian Army that is deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. Armed with this book you can field a ‘straight up’ Carabinieri force for urban patrolling right through to a specialised Anti-Terrorist force including the famous GIS (Italian SWAT); plus the support elements such as ‘Toscana’ –Carabinieri Parachute Infantry. You can field the Calabria and Sardinia Light Infantry Companies for anti-Mafia operations. Sniper teams, dog teams and rapid intervention Heliborne teams! Completing this lavish volume is the section on the Armed Forces of Italy a massive Table of Equipment & Organisation allowing you to field every known variant of mechanised, alpine, cavalry and armoured Regiments currently fielded by the Italian Army –both for deployment in a NATO ‘what if?’ scenario as well as to Iraq, Afghanistan and on any UN peacekeeping deployment such as Lebanon (1982), Somalia (1993) and so on! —description from the publisher