What happens when 300 students of Secondary Colleges have the opportunity to meet and talk with a minister for a whole morning? The result is certainly a surprise, a set of questions focused, relevant, current and never out of the subject worthy of the most meticulous journalist. This is what happened this morning in Caserta at the barracks Federico Ferrari-Orsi headquarters of the Bersaglieri Brigade "Garibaldi", during a meeting organized by the Ministry of Defense between Minister Elisabetta Trenta and the students of the city's high schools. The first of a series of conferences that will see the thirty involved with young people to talk about Defense, the military world and our country one hundred years after the end of the Great War.
Moderated by the director of the Mattino, Federico Monga, the debate touched on issues of particular interest especially for the province of Caserta, with questions, those asked by students, as ever current and attentive to the events affecting their land. An attitude of prudence, symptom of an attention that young people have towards information and the search for truth in a sea, like that of the web, in which it is not easy to disentangle and distinguish the so-called "fake news".
On the other side of the stage a woman, a soldier (not everyone knows, in fact that the minister wore the uniform as an officer of the Selected Reserve of the Italian Army, ed.) and a few months minister of defense that with the use of a simple language and very close to the boys, has responded to every solicitation.
Luca Diadema, a student of Giordani, asked the question on the land of the fires, who wondered about the strategies adopted in light of the recent extraordinary council of ministers gathered in the city to extinguish a scourge afflicting the Casertan territories and beyond.
"I strongly believe that the state must win illegality and for this reason, in agreement with the environment and interior ministries, we decided to undertake a real struggle by providing 200 men between Carabinieri and Army soldiers along with drones and satellites for territory control ". Investigations and environmental remediation will be carried out by the forces deployed by the Carabinieri, while the Army will continue, intensifying it, in the activity of patrolling and deterring on the ground as part of the "Safe Roads" operation, the minister specified. On the other hand, young people "Our future and our hope for the fight against change is given a very important role: the cultural one. We have to get used to the concept that things can not be changed, but to struggle in small steps. I hope that you become a warrior for legality, whatever the trade or role in the society you are going to play will be. "
From the particular to the general, from Caserta to Italy to the rest of the world, through the questions asked, the minister explained the policies of the ministry to which he heads and speaking of an Italy that more than ever is inserted in a world context made also of alliances created to maintain global balances and avert the risk of new conflicts. "If I have to fight I must know how to do it. Being a state with a defense capability means being ready at all levels to protect your country, even if it means sending men outside national borders. We are going to bring peace, our missions are, in fact, of capacity building, that is, we help the other countries to restore the balance and create new ones ".
The minister then also focused on his idea to intensify the role of the barracks in southern Italy, both to meet the needs of the military who provide their service away from home by encouraging family reunification (80% of defense personnel is in fact southern), but also, and above all, to defend at best a country that today is faced with very important migratory flows, to which we must certainly take measures, both to ward off other tragedies such as those that have already involved migrants in the past, both to foster integration and to avoid unrest. "I'm for the barracks in the south", has therefore repeated several times the Trenta, reassuring those who have said they were worried about the closure of many military institutions that once stood in the city of Caserta and, to questions about the possible return of compulsory leverage, he replied smiling: "Having an army of professionals, we do not need it".