Antonio Conte at the national team. The boots on the pitch needed for Hormuz

To the Editor – I fully agree with your call to appoint Conte (Antonio) as the new manager of the national football team.

There is a Conte who can save Italy.

To the Editor – I concur with your call for Conte to be appointed manager of the national team. Baldini would be my second choice.

To the Editor – I support your call: Antonio Conte for the national football team.

To the editor – I am also signing in support of Conte.

To the Editor – I support the appeal to persuade Conte (Antonio) to take charge of the Italian national team.

To the editor – I am a supporter of Inter and the Italian national team; I would like Antonio Conte to be appointed as the next manager of the Italian national team. Thank you.

To the Editor – As Gianraffaele Percannella explains in his article "Quante operazioni di terra sono necessarie per riaprire Hormuz", discussions have resumed within US military high command circles regarding which islands to occupy, through limited ground operations by American troops, in order to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. There is, however, a technical misunderstanding within the military command that Percannella rightly highlights: no single point in the stretch of sea truly guarantees control of the Strait, because its closure is not a geographical fact, but a political and military-operational one taken as a whole. The truth is that, sooner or later, the United States will be forced to recognise that freedom of navigation in Hormuz depends on the nature of the Iranian regime. As long as that regime remains in power, any naval-ground military solution, limited to the occupation of a few islands in the stretch of sea bordering the Strait, is merely a stopgap measure. But precisely for this reason, the strategic question is not ‘how many islands are needed’, but ‘how long can a ground operation deep within Iranian territory be avoided?’. It is a paradox, but it is the only way to tackle the root of the problem: the Strait will only reopen if the Iranian regime in power that is closing it falls. With all due respect.

The truth is that wars, however modern they may become, always have one constant. If you put your boots on the ground, you might just win. If you don’t, you can only lose.

To the editor – “You will lead Italy to ruin, and it will fall to us communists to save it!” So said Antonio Gramsci before the Special Court that convicted him. I must confess to you, dear Cerasa, that I find the attempt by the rabble-rousers of Campo Largo to appropriate for themselves – by parroting the exclamation ‘now it’s our turn’ – the meaning of the communist leader’s noble words to be abhorrent and disgusting.