Crosetto will wage war on duplications at the top of the armed forces
What emerged from the hearing of the defense minister, Guido Crosetto, on the programmatic lines of the dicastery before the joint defense committees of the Chamber and foreign affairs and defense of the senate
"We need a review of top management structures and a change in the financing method" for Defense.
It is a defense minister without beating about the bush who this morning communicated the programmatic lines of his department in the hearing to the joint commissions of the Defense of the Chamber and of Foreign Affairs and Defense of the Senate.
"The present seems to be a return to the horrors of the world conflicts of the last century" warned the head of Defense Guido Crosetto, referring to the current conflict between Russia and Ukraine. “For years we have deluded ourselves that we live in a world characterized by the end of conflicts, that we can govern history. On these certainties we have built a political-military instrument mainly aimed at peace missions”, and yet, “we are experiencing a historic transformation. The centers of gravity of world geopolitics are in constant motion,” Crosetto warned. Precisely for this reason we need "a review of the top management structures that eliminates duplications not dictated by needs" and a new method of financing the defense system according to the minister. "Many citizens feel uneasy at the thought that their taxes are used to finance defense" admitted Crosetto, "but it is above all a duty towards our military".
"There is a need for certainty of the stability of funding", reiterated the defense minister.
All the details.
EVOLUTION OF THE MILITARY INSTRUMENT STARTING FROM THE REVIEW OF THE SUMMIT STRUCTURES
We need “a profound evolution in terms of joint forces of the military instrument on the ordering, logistic, technological and regulatory level. There are many initiatives to be launched for such a condition, starting with a review of top management structures, which eliminates duplications not dictated by the need for operational redundancies and which allows for the improvement of quality and time containment in work processes. It is also necessary to unify the sectors and services common to the various armed forces”, highlighted Crosetto.
According to the defense minister "the synergy of the components of the military forces must be an intrinsic element and not just something to be pursued in operations".
Furthermore, "full flexibility in the use of the Armed Forces must be ensured in all scenarios in which the democratic order is jeopardised", he said. "The dicastery undertakes to review structures and scenarios but also to an evolution of the defense way of thinking, synergistic in its components", continued the minister. This synergy must be “capable of generating relevant effects, with adaptive decision-making processes”. “The ability to be interoperable is necessary to prevail against future adversaries at the NATO level but also at the national level,” added Crosetto.
THE ROLE OF DEFENSE IN THE SPACE AND CYBER DOMAINS
After that, the "ability to generate security has always been correlated to the ability to use technological innovations" explained the Minister of Defense, Guido Crosetto, in communications to the Defense Committee of the Chamber and to the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee of the Senate on the programmatic lines of his dicastery. This capacity manifests itself in "acquiring stable cyber capabilities, maintaining an aerospace system, developing systems that employ artificial intelligence", which are "just some" of the essential elements.
As far as the role of Defense in the Space and Cyber domains is concerned, "the latter will have to promote and be the protagonist of a path that leads to the uniqueness of strategic and policy direction both at a national level and within the international Organizations of reference ” highlighted Minister Crosetto.
NECESSARY A NATIONAL LAW FOR THE SPACE SECTOR
"On Space – he added – we need to build a law that governs governance by giving Defense what it deserves, given that in the possible future Space could be a place not only of technological opportunities, but also of clashes between countries". With these words, the defense minister aligns himself with what is also invoked by the space sector industry. Only last month, the main Italian player in the aerospace sector, Leonardo, highlighted that sovereignty is at stake in space, which is why a new law will allow reference governance.
A THREE-YEAR LAW IS NEEDED FOR DEFENSE INVESTMENTS
After that, in addition to the evolution of the military instrument, Crosetto reiterated the importance of defense spending.
"We need to define a new financing model in the defense investment sector, based on a three-year investment law, which brings together in a single maneuver the financial volumes relating to three successive measures with a depth of 17 years" explained the minister . “Such an intervention would make it possible to effectively support the national position on the international tables of the various cooperative programs with possible repercussions on the industry's investment and employment choices”, continued Crosetto.
WHY MILITARY EXPENDITURE MUST BE FINANCED
"The ineffectiveness of weapon systems has consequences that no one wants to experience", explained Crosetto, referring to international current events. Furthermore, he said "we act when we know we are on the right side", always in compliance with "the principles of international and humanitarian law". Thirdly, said Crosetto regarding the need to finance defense spending, "a large part of the progress of our society is a transfer of the progress obtained from research to military purposes".
WITH MILITARY AID TO UKRAINE NEED TO RESTORE STOCKS
Finally, "Excluding defense investments from the 'Stability Pact' would be a purely technical decision and if it were authorized by Europe it would remove competition between types of expenditure, Minister Giorgetti also shared this thing and we brought it to the table of the 'Europe as well as other countries, because at a time like this no country is able to cut investments in defense” underlined the minister.
"Also because the aid we have given to Ukraine in recent months is an aid that requires us to restore the stocks needed for national defence, so the two things are connected" concluded Minister Crosetto.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/crosetto-fara-la-guerra-alle-duplicazioni-al-vertice-delle-forze-armate/ on Wed, 25 Jan 2023 15:01:27 +0000.