Enlist between 30,000 and 40,000 more soldiers into the army to increase Italy's defensive capacity by more than a third, reaching the threshold of 135,000 soldiers, ordinary and non-reservists.
This would be foreseen in the national security plan that the Defense General Staff is working on, following the indications of Minister Guido Crosetto. An intervention to be carried out within a time frame of between five and eight years.
A long-term planning that, according to the newspaper La Stampa, would lead "in about ten years to having filled the gap that was created due to the disengagement of the last governments".
The long times, it is explained, are due not only to the training of the men, but also to the supply chains that need to be put back into operation.
(Online Union)
