The aim was to ensure Carabinieri Battalions the availability of all elements necessary to be in a position to act in isolation and overcome considerable resistance without having to rely on the competition of other Army Corps or other Armed Forces, to ensure Battalions speed of movement and concentration in large sectors of foreseeable use and a constant high training level.

[6] The establishment of the XI Carabinieri Mechanized Brigade was decided also due to the wider Italian Army needs to have only one point of contact to deal with equipment, training and readiness of Carabinier Battalions, framed within military defence system.

[3] The newly formed Mechanized Brigade exercised its operational and training authority on:[4] The command structure of the XI Carabinieri Mechanized Brigade consisted of:[6] The XI Carabinieri Mechanized Brigade did not exercise operational command tasks, but it did exercise training and readiness duties.

204 Between 1973 and 1976, the 5th Carabinieri Regiment (HQ Mestre) also existed, including IV, VII and XIII Battalions.

With the end of the Cold War, the mobile organization lost its combat-oriented connotation, taking over the role of force mainly devoted to the performance of riot control.

In the 1980 Irpinia earthquake Carabinieri Battalions from Bari, Naples and Rome also intervened.[13]pp.