MILAN (ITALPRESS) – Hybrid war is no longer a theoretical threat but a concrete reality with which Italy and Europe are confronted daily. Relaunching the alarm is the Minister of Defense, Guido Crosetto, in an interview issued to National QN, in which he calls for a decisive change in the national security strategy. “The phase that we live is not ordinary and is not comparable to any period of the past, because new technologies speed up threats,” the Defense owner points out, emphasizing that the aim of cyber attacks and sabotage actions is not limited to military devices alone, but directly to the functioning of society and the everyday life of citizens. “An attack does not need to hit the Defense: it can hit a chain of supermarkets making it impossible to shop, or the electrical system of a hospital. A well-established cyber threat is enough to block essential services.” According to Crosetto, in the face of scenarios in which hostile groups and state or parastatal actors act, the only reactive defence is insufficient: “If we limit ourselves to defending ourselves from the hybrid war attacks we have already lost. We must start stopping them before they hit, developing real skills of prevention and deterrence.”.
The Minister therefore recalls institutional cohesion and the overall adjustment of the State: “They must change the institutions and the nation as a whole, not only the Defense. We need a unitary strategy for the resilience of the country.” In this perspective, Crosetto reaffirmed the need to increase the organic equipment and technological capabilities of the Armed Forces, as well as strengthen the cyber shield on public networks, transport and critical industrial chains.
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