Enrico Benedetto Cossidente is an Italian Army staff officer and military legal advisor. He is specialized in international/operational law and security issues. He currently serves as a legal advisor to the Italian Defence General Staff - Office of Legal Affairs (International Law Branch). Before this assignment he worked as military legal advisor for NATO. He has also been a legal advisor in military operations abroad. He holds a Law degree from the University Guglielmo Marconi (Rome) and an LLM on IHL/LOAC from the University of Turin. He writes in his personal capacity.