He spent decades in Italy's African colonies and also fought on the Italian front during World War I. Pantano was born in Oderzo in 1868.
[1] During the First Italo-Ethiopian War, he commanded the VIII Battaglione indigeni of the Royal Corps of Eritrean Colonial Troops (ascari) as a sub-lieutenant.
[1] In a memorandum to the Colonial Ministry dated 29 July 1915, he blamed Italian failure on hostility towards Arabs and the use of reprisals.
[1] His widow, Eugenia Dal Bo, donated his papers to the Archivio della Guerra in the Palazzo Moriggia in Milan.
In some places, he abridged the text to bring Douhet more in line with the reigning ideology of the National Fascist Party.