The brigade supplies the headquarters and most units to the former Multinational Land Force, also known as the Italian-Hungarian-Slovenian Battlegroup.

With 1975 Italian Army reform the regimental level was abolished and battalions came under direct command of multi-arms brigades.

The Mountain Artillery Group "Conegliano" moved to Udine, while the brigade headquarters and the signal company were merged to form the Command and Signal Unit "Julia", and the Services Grouping "Julia" was reorganized as a logistic battalion.

The brigade's three artillery groups had an authorized strength of 610 men and fielded 18 M56 105mm pack howitzers each.

In the more likely case the Soviet and Hungarian divisions would invade Austria and march through Southern Styria and through the Drava valley in Carinthia the alpine brigades would have been the first front line units of the Italian Army.

Further West the Tolmezzo battalion was stationed in Paluzza and tasked with defending the Plöcken Pass, as a breakthrough there would have allowed enemy forces to march through the But valley into the rear of the other Julia units.

Additionally the Val Tagliamento battalion, the biggest battalion of the Italian Army, based in Tolmezzo near the Southern end of the Canal Valley fielded 16 companies and had an organic strength of over 2,500 men, which were tasked to man the Alpine Wall fortifications in the aforementioned valleys.

As a Warsaw Pact attack through the Canal valley was considered to be the most likely scenario the Julia was by far the strongest brigade of the Italian Army with more than 10,000 men.

The brigade is based in the eastern half of northern Italy and part of the Alpine Troops Command.

As of 4 October 2022 the brigade is organized as follows: The Alpini regiments are equipped with Bv 206S tracked all-terrain carriers and Lince light multirole vehicles.

The maneuver support companies of the Alpini regiments are equipped with 120 mm mortars and Spike anti-tank guided missile systems.

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