IACOPI DISCENDENZE E STORIA

Major General Don MASSIMO IACOPI

 

Studies conducted:

Civil:

• High school diploma, Galeazzo Alessi Scientific High School, Perugia, 1963;

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• Master’s Degree in Strategic Sciences, University of Turin, 1999;

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• Specialization Diploma in Geopolitics, University of Cassino, 2001.

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Military Education:

• Military Academy, Modena, 1963 – 1965;

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• Artillery Application School, Turin, 1965 – 1967;

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• War College, Civitavecchia (100th Course), 1975 – 1978;

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• Command and General Staff College of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, 1980 – 1982;

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• Institute for High Defence Studies (IASD) (50th Session), Rome, 1998 – 1999.

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Main Professional Assignments:

• Command Assignments:
• Commander of the 2nd and 3rd Groups, Horse Artillery Regiment, MILAN (1984 - 1986)
• Section Commander at the War College, CIVITAVECCHIA (1986 - 1988)
• Commander of the 121st Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment, BOLOGNA (1988 - 1990)
• Commander of the Military District of PERUGIA (1990 - 1993)
• Commander of the Anti-Aircraft Artillery Training and Experimentation Center, SABAUDIA (1999 - 2002)
• General Attached to the Anti-Aircraft Artillery, SABAUDIA (1999 - 2002)

• Staff Assignments:
• Chief of Training and Operations Section, Sardinia Military Command, CAGLIARI (1978 - 1979)
• Chief of Training and Mobilization Section, Sicily Military Command, PALERMO (1979 - 1980)
• Chief of Mobilization and Recall Section, Sicily Military Command, PALERMO (1980 - 1981)
• Chief of Military Police and Situation Section, Sicily Military Command, PALERMO (1983 - 1984)
• Assistant Instructor of Logistics and Fire Employment, Staff College Course, War College, CIVITAVECCHIA (1986 - 1988)
• Director of Missile, Launcher, and Logistics Divisions (SAMP/T System), FSAF Program Office, PARIS (1993 - 1996)
• Chief of the Anti-Aircraft Artillery Office, Artillery Inspectorate, ROME (1996 - 1997)
• National Delegate to the WEU "FINABEL DELTA" Working Group (1997 - 1998)
• Head of National Delegation to the Steering Committee, International NATO Consortium for SHORAD/VSHORAD Missile Systems Development (1997 - 1999)
• General Staff Officer (Inspector) for the Italian Anti-Aircraft Artillery, SABAUDIA (1999 - 2002)

Awards and Military Honors:

• Formal Commendation (Commander of the 3rd Army Corps, Milan 1985);
• Formal Commendation (Commander of the Army Anti-Aircraft Artillery, Padua 1988).
• Formal Commendation (Deputy Inspector for the Artillery Corps, Bracciano, October 19, 2002).
• Gold Cross for Seniority of Service with Star (1990);
• Silver Medal for Long Command (2000);

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• Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus (Mauriziana Medal) (1993);

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• PACIFICADOR Medal (Duke of Caxias), BRAZIL (1982);

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• Silver Medal of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St. George (2012);

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Honours and Decorations:

• Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (Officer, 2000);

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• Order pro Merito Melitensi of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (Commander with Swords, 2001);

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• Patriarchal Order of St. Ignatios of Antioch (Knight Grand Cross, 2002);

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• Sovereign Imperial Military Order of the Iron Crown (Knight Grand Cross of Justice, 2003);

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• Sovereign Order of the Papal Light Cavalry of St. Ignatius of Loyola (Knight Grand Cross, 2012).

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Recognitions:

• Honorary Citizen of MONTONE (1992);

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• Honorary Citizen of NARNI (1993);

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• Honorary Citizen of NETTUNO (2000);

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• Honorary Citizen of SABAUDIA (2001);

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• Honorary Citizen of LITTLE ROCK (Arkansas, USA), (2002);

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• Army Certificate of Merit, issued in 2008 by the Chief of Staff of the Army, Lieutenant General Fabrizio Castagnetti; (Annex)
• Honorary Gunner of the French Artillery Application School of DRAGUIGNAN (VAR), Patent no. 7 dated July 10, 2000; (Annex)
• Resident Member of the ACCADEMIA PROPERZIANA del SUBASIO in ASSISI (1976). (Annex)

• Member of the Noble Compañía de los BALLESTEROS HIJOSDALGOS de S. Felipe y Santiago de Alfaro (Honorary Cmdr: H.M. King Juan Carlos I of Spain) (2002); (Annex - Annex - Annex - Annex)
• Included in the 7th and 8th Editions of "MARQUIS WHO'S WHO" in Science and Engineering (2003-04 and 2005-06) for achievements in the field of electronic command and control systems; (Annex - Annex)
• Member of the AMERICAN ACADEMY for GENEALOGIC and HERALDIC SCIENCES, Oxford (Mississippi, USA) (2003); later merged into the INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY for PROMOTION of SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH (2005); (Annex)
• Meritorious Academician of the ISTITUTO di STUDI STORICI BEATO PIO IX (ROME, 2004); (Annex)
• Expert Academician of the SOCIETÀ ARCHEOLOGICA NAZIONALE di GENOVA, Historical Disciplines Class (Genoa, 2004); (Annex - Annex)
• Meritorious Member of the TOURING CLUB ITALIANO (Member since 1962), MILAN (2001); (Annex)
• General Regent of the Awards System "CUSTODIA DEL GRIFO ARCIERE", LATINA (2002), currently in office; (Annex - Annex)

• Academician of the ACADEMIA de LETRAS e ARTES de PORTUGAL, Lisbon (November 23, 2006); (Annex)
• Academic Senator of the NORMAN ACADEMY, Rome (April 2007); (Annex)
• Awarded the 6th Edition of the International Journalism Prize “INARS Ciociaria” - Writers Section, Frosinone (December 14, 2007); (Annex - Annex)
• Member of the BELGIAN-HISPANIC ACADEMY of HISTORY (ABEH), Brussels (2008); (Annex - Annex - Annex)
• Honorary Member of the PORTUGUESE NAVAL HISTORY INSTITUTE, Lisbon (2008); (Annex)
• Awarded the “European Personality 2009” Prize by the European Center for Tourism, during the 39th Europe Day, Rome; (Annex - Annex - Annex)

• Awarded the Medal of Merit of the Anti-Aircraft Artillery Association of BRAZIL, Caxias do Sul (2010); (Annex)
• Awarded the Military Medal of Merit “Generalissimo Bartolomeo COLLEONI” (July 2011); (Annex)
• Awarded the Friendship Medal of the ST. LAZARUS CORPS INTERNATIONAL of Austria; (Annex - Annex)

Publications:

Author of 16 Publications on Military History and Geopolitics:

• “The 3rd Group of the Horse Artillery Regiment” (Il 3° Gruppo del Reggimento Artiglieria a Cavallo), Cremona Editions, 1985;
• “The Horse Artillery Regiment and the 2nd Fast Division”; Military Review Edition, 1989; 2nd edition, Grifo Consulting, Assisi, 2002; (Annex - Annex)
• “The 121st Motorized Regiment 'Ravenna' in WWII”; 121st Regiment Bologna Edition, 1991; (Annex - Annex)
• “The Recipients of Military Valour Decorations of the City of Assisi”; Accademia Properziana del Subasio Edition, Assisi, 1993; (Annex)
• “Brigandage in Umbria”; Accademia Properziana del Subasio Edition, Assisi, 1993 and SME Historical Office Edition, Rome, 1998; (Annex)
• “The Anti-Aircraft Artillery Training and Experimentation Center and the Speciality from its origins to 2000”; CASACA Edition, Sabaudia, 2001; (Annex - Annex)
• “General Luigi Masi - Physician and Warrior”; in Military History Memoirs 2003, SME Historical Office, Rome and Accademia Properziana del Subasio Edition, Assisi, 2003; (Annex)
• “Europe and the Muslim World - Europe and Turkey”; published in “Quaderno di Scienze Politiche” no. 1/2005, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia;
• “The Battle of Lepanto”, published in the Proceedings of the Study Conference on Marcantonio Colonna "The Ancient Statutes of the Municipality of Nettuno", May 2005 edition; (Annex)
• “The 35th Military District of Perugia: History of a Military District”, Army Historical Office Edition, Rome 2006; (Annex - Annex)
• “The strategic role of Central Asian cavalry”, Italo SVEVO Editions, Trieste 2011; (Annex)
• “Asia: geopolitical re-reading, insights and reflections”, Italo SVEVO Editions, Trieste 2011; (Annex)
• “Brazil: a nation towards the future”, Italo SVEVO Editions, Trieste 2012;
• “USA, RUSSIA and the Mediterranean: a geopolitical reflection”, Goliardiche Editions, Trieste 2015; (Annex)
• “The Centenary of Anti-Aircraft Artillery through postcards and images”, Goliardica Publishing, Trieste 2015; (Annex - Annex)
• “Famous characters, brands and icons: Illustrious but little-known names”, Grifoarciere Editions, Sabaudia 2021.

Nobleman of Pistoia and Florence, Lecturer, Journalist, Adjunct Professor at the Chair of Contemporary History, Faculty of Letters, University of Perugia (2009-2011), Teaching Member of the UAV (Open University of Verolanuova, BS) (2010-2017). He is the author of approximately 700 essays and press articles on various topics, published in:

• National periodicals:
  • Rivista Militare Italiana, Rassegna Militare Italiana, Rivista Militare Marittima, Brazilian Defense Review, Difesa Oggi, RID (Italian Defense Review), Rivista di Cavalleria, Impero Romano d'Oriente, Storia in Network, Graffiti on line.
• Regional newspapers and periodicals:
  • In Umbria (Corriere dell'Umbria, Settimanale dell'Umbria, "Subasio" Quarterly Review of the Accademia Properziana del Subasio, Assisi) and in Emilia (Cronaca di Piacenza). For approximately two years, he managed the column "Voci dalla Storia" (Voices from History) in the Thursday supplement "Vivere" of the Corriere dell'Umbria and, for a short period, the column "Pillole di Storia Assisana" (Pills of Assisi History) in the same newspaper.

SUMMARY

Major General Don Massimo IACOPI, born in Assisi on October 20, 1944, holds a Degree in Strategic Sciences and a Specialization in Geopolitics. He attended the 20th Course of the Military Academy of Modena and the 145th Course of the Artillery Application School in Turin. Early in his career, he served in the 3rd Heavy Field Artillery in Pisa, the 5th and 4th Anti-Aircraft Regiments, where he commanded a Hawk operational battery in Cremona. He completed the 100th Senior Staff Course at the War College in Civitavecchia and subsequently served at the Military Commands of SARDINIA as Chief of the Training Section, and SICILY as Chief of Training and Mobilization and Chief of the Intelligence and Military Police Section. After attending the Command and General Staff College of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, he commanded the 3rd and 2nd Self-Propelled Groups of the Horse Artillery Regiment in Milan. He later served as Section Commander and Adjunct Instructor of Logistics and Fire Employment for the Staff Course at the War College. Following his terms as the 25th Commander of the 121st Anti-Aircraft Regiment in Bologna and the 47th Commander of the Military District of Perugia, he served three years in Paris (from 1993) as Director in charge of the Launchers, Missiles, and Logistics Divisions of the FSAF SAMP/T Missile Development Program. In 1997, he was the last Chief of the Anti-Aircraft Artillery Office of the former Artillery Inspectorate. National Delegate to the WEU “FINABEL DELTA” Working Group (1997-1998) and Head of the National Delegation to the NATO Steering Committee for the development of SHORAD/VSHORAD missile systems (1997-1999), he attended the 50th Session of the Institute for High Defence Studies (IASD) in Rome. From October 14, 1999, to October 19, 2002, he served as the 40th Commander of the Anti-Aircraft Artillery Training and Experimentation Center in Sabaudia and General Attached (Inspector) to the Italian Army Anti-Aircraft Artillery. Academician of national and international cultural academies and Honorary Citizen of five cities, he was included in the 7th and 8th Editions of the “Science and Engineering” volume of the Marquis WHO’S WHO in the USA (2004, 2006). In December 2007, he was awarded the 6th Edition of the “INARS Ciociaria” International Journalism Prize (Writers Section) in Frosinone, and in December 2009, he received the “European Personality 2009” Award from the European Center for Tourism in Rome during the 39th Europe Day.

Nobleman of PISTOIA and FLORENCE, Journalist, Lecturer, and Adjunct Professor of Contemporary History at the Faculty of Letters in Perugia (2009-2011). He is the Founder and General Regent (from July 2002 to present) of the “Custodia del Grifo Arciere” Awards System, officially recognized by the Italian Ministry of Defence since January 2008. In 2010, he was awarded the Medal of Merit of the Anti-Aircraft Artillery Association of BRAZIL (Caxias do Sul), the Military Medal of Merit “Generalissimo Bartolomeo COLLEONI” (2011), the Silver Medal of the Constantinian Order of St. George (2012), and the PACIFICADOR Medal (Duke of Caxias) of BRAZIL. He also holds the honors of Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic and Commander of the Order pro Merito Melitensi.