Lieutenant Colonel Roberto Diana joined the Air Force in 1999 as an Intelligence Officer, graduated in Political Science and was awarded the ‘Badge of Honour’ at the end of the Officers Course. Assigned to the Italian Defence General Staff, he completed his Intelligence training and gained an extensive operational experience in key Intelligence positions in Italy, Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait and in the United States. He attended the Italian Air Force War College in 2015 and the ‘Ecole de Guerre’ (Paris) in 2019, where his dissertation ‘The Black Swan Theory facing History: Garibaldi and Expedition of the Thousand’ was awarded among the School’s best research works.