This made me laugh.
If you don’t currently work in politics, you have missed your vocation, my friend!
It’s the first time (AFAIK 
) I’m pitted, though indirectly, so I can’t miss this chance to answer.
Yes, AFAIK there’s still a mandatory military service in Italy. In other words :
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I know there was a mandatory military service in Italy very recently.
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It could have been supressed last month or last year, for all I know, and I could be unaware of it.
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I do not intend to check it by making a research about the current situation re the military service in Italy. That, the OP can do, since he’s the one interested in this issue, not me.