Minister Crosetto Attends Joint Stars 2025

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Minister Crosetto spent the day with Defence personnel engaged in Joint Stars 2025, a multi-domain, multi-agency exercise taking place in Sardinia, planned and conducted by the Joint Operations Headquarters (COVI).
“Security is not given for granted: it is the product of training, cooperation and readiness. There is no freedom without security, no future without freedom, and at Joint Stars 2025 today is the future. From earth to space: a Defence exercise that embraces all operational domains by integrating ground, maritime, air, cyber and space operations to tackle advanced threats like cyber attacks and the use of drones, reflecting on the complexity of conflicts and current crisis scenarios. State Corps, governmental agencies and academia were engaged in the planning of complex scenarios, and that’s good, because the security of a country is a responsibility shared by a number of actors”.

Thus Minister Crosetto who, from aboard Navy Ship Trieste, during his visit witnessed one phase which entailed the response of the integrated air and missile defence systems to the complex threats which characterize current conflicts and crisis scenarios. Testing response capabilities and troops’ readiness level was in fact possible thanks to technologies able to merge real, simulated and synthetic activities.

Subsequently, the Minister visited the Capo Teulada firing range, where the Armed Forces train in realistic, highly complex scenarios, including hybrid threats, prolonged drone attacks, integrated command and control: fundamental elements to tackle modern conflicts’ challenges.

The Minister was accompanied by Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Luciano Portolano; Navy Chief Adm. Enrico Credendino; Air Force Chief Gen. Antonio Conserva; Defence Secretary Genral, Councilor Fabio Mattei; COVI Commander Gen. Giovanni Maria Iannucci and representatives of the Army, Carabinieri and Customs Police.

Joint Stars 2025, which kicked of on 8 May in southern Sardinia, aims to strengthen the country’s response capacity, including in a NATO framework, to tackle current conventional and hybrid threats.

In particular, it simulates a modern conflict inspired by the current geopolitical scenario, where conventional and hybrid threats overlap each other: cyber attacks against critical infrastructures, digital blackouts, sabotage, missiles, anti-satellite activities and disinformation campaigns aimed to destabilize the civilian population and confuse the chain of command.