He has also said that Britain cannot specialise in counter-insurgency warfare alone, but must bereadytofight state-on-state wars that necessarily require high-end equipment.
But it is not yet readytofight an election, and Mr Fini knows that if he brings down the government he could be depicted by the prime minister as having betrayed the right and destabilised the country at a time when Italy, and the euro zone in general, needs a steady hand.