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“REFLECTIONS ON CURRENT SECURITY CHALLENGES”

THE ITALIAN CHOD POINT OF VIEW

The current international
landscape is characterised by
widespread instability. This
leads to conflicts that may not
be limited in scope and that feed
on political, social, economic,
environmental or religious
factors, especially in areas
subject to economic and social
tensions. If today we think of the
threat, the terrorist organization
called Daesh comes immediately
to our mind, for its global
dimension, its organizational
effectiveness and the symbolic
power of attraction that spurred many more malicious effects to the detriment of the entire
international community, e.g. foreign fighters, lone wolves/self-radicalization phenomena. A threat,
the terrorism, which only recently has acquired the characteristics of a marked “geographical pattern”,
while it had assumed different
connotations in previous
historical periods.
However, it indeed represents
only a step in the “cyclical flow”
of the crisis, according to which,
more or less every ten years, the
international community deals
with the emergence of new
threats on the strategic-military
level.
Therefore, about every decade,
the strategic approach of the
international community has
changed in relation to the
emergence of new forms of threat, beginning with intra-state conflicts of the 1990s in former Soviet
areas, proceeding with international terrorism in the aftermath of September 11th, 2001, to the current
hybrid threat posed by jihadist terrorism.
This is a trend of particular importance for the “insiders” of the defence, since it imposes profound
organizational changes and adaptations to be always in a position of advantage to anticipate, as far as
possible, the seeds of the next crisis, preparing adequate tools and capabilities to be ready for the

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