"Coronavirus has taught Italy hard lessons". Other countries must learn from us:

World News - Last week, Italy become the first European country to go into complete lockdown to protect its citizans from a pandemic coronavirus attack. Previously such a scenario was just an academic hypothesis for national security ecperts. Now what Italt is doing can become a model for other counties threatened by the same enemy; COVID -19.

"Italy remains under attack, as shown by the rising number of infection and death due to COVID-19, The battle against the virus is full of unknowns, but there are are three aspects of current emergency that already contain unequivocal lessons".

The first concerns national security. The pandemic caught Italy by surprise, almost like a large~scale terror attack. In schools of war, they teach that you always need to prepare yourself to fight the next conflict. Now we know this can be triggered not by an armed enemy but by a coronavirus. Consequently, hospitals, "medical facilities" health equipment" doctors and nurses are equivalent to our frontline. They have to be considered a trench to defend, consolidate and reinforce. We must then invest in health like we do in security – that means rethinking national budgets to dedicate strategic resources to research, development and training in the medical sector and also to the purchase of materials destined to become crucial supplies.

What this requires of individual democracies as well as of the EU and Nato alliances is to equip themselves urgently with an effective, well-structured and even better funded biosecurity policy. Because the secret of success in resisting pandemic attacks is in the logistics: the more hospitals, beds, specialists, nurses, machinery and medicines there are, the more our collective life is protected. And so we need to coordinate efforts: in Europe for example, Spain, France and Germany are drawing from the Italian experience, adopting similar choices. Other countries further afield are also learning from Italy and closing down before a high number of cases emerge..