Italy during World War II

Italy in World War II is known as one of the three fascist powers, but its war history can be said to be the most humorous. Oh, my god ... how can a country like Italy be speechless ... but since it can be called one of the top three, Italy should have a better place than other younger brother countries. Let's take a look at Italy's national conditions and strategies at that time and see how Italy can do it more cost-effectively. .....

Italy, like Japan, is defined as a new industrial country. During World War I, the Italian government gave up its alliance with the Second Reich and Austria-Hungary, and turned to the side of Britain and France, thus gaining the status of a victorious country in World War I. However, in the Treaty of Versailles of 19 19, Italy did not benefit as Britain, France and the United States did, and even might as well just fight Qingdao. Japan inexplicably obtained the privileges of some German island colonies in China and the Pacific Ocean from the defeated Germany, and also separated several battleships of the German ocean fleet, and earned enough weight in the subsequent naval negotiations, becoming a second-rate sea power country, which is tied with Italy and France, second only to Britain and the United States. Italy, on the other hand, does not even have an overseas colony in Germany! Compared with the trauma brought to Italy by the war, this small gain is simply a drop in the bucket. As a result, Italy's domestic economy began to retrogress, the political situation became unstable, and new ideological trends began to flood ... The government could not control the situation ... 1922, Mussolini Fascist Party came to power, and Italy became the first dictatorial fascist country. However, fascism failed to save Italy. From 1922 to 193 1, the economic situation in Italy continued to deteriorate and the number of unemployed people increased. At the same time, the situation of Italy's foreign aggression and expansion is not optimistic. Italy's military strength has not made much progress because of fascist dictatorship and militarism. The Italian army with low morale and internal corruption soon suffered heavy losses in the subsequent war. ...

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1933, the Nazis came to power in Germany. Hitler thought Italy and Mussolini were examples of Nazi Germany and praised them. Italy is, after all, an "imperialist country", where political parties with similar goals gained political power, fueling the whole fascism (Hitler and Mussolini also made a lot of jokes here). 1935, the Spanish civil war broke out and Italy invaded Ethiopia. In the two wars, the performance of the Italian army was not so good, and the Spanish civil war was slightly better, at least with the help of the German intervention army. There is nothing to be ashamed of. The Ethiopian invasion was ugly, and the drama of 1887 to 1896 Ethiopian war was almost staged. If the appeasement policy of Britain and France and the pressure on Italy are not great enough, it is hard to imagine that Italy can still fight ... In short, Italy was trapped in diplomacy before the war, and its situation was far worse than that of Germany and Japan (at least its military was excellent and its diplomatic adventure was relatively successful, and Italy was the European continent).

When dealing with the strategy of World War II, Italy always wants to be equal to Germany and Japan everywhere, trying to be very important, but in fact it is one of the chief culprits that drag down the whole Axis camp. See where there is Italy in Greece, Balkans and North Africa, and other European Axis powers will fill in. The most direct result is the dispersion of troops. For Germany, Italy's most important ally, the biggest mistake to help Italy realize its Balkan ambitions was to invade Yugoslavia and Greece, which directly dispersed the already valuable armored forces and motorized troops and delayed the plan to invade the Soviet Union. In other words, the assault force in the main attack direction was wasted and the arrival time of winter was artificially "advanced". All this is due to the weakness of the Italian army. Originally, 500,000 Italian troops had a better chance to invade the Balkans. Even if it doesn't go well, it won't be defeated so soon. Italy is a typical yawning toad with a big mouth and a small stomach. ...

For Italy, the wiser strategy in World War II is to take a defensive posture in North Africa, stall and attack the British H fleet and the Mediterranean sub-fleet, and cut off the connection between Egypt-Suez Canal and Britain in the Mediterranean as much as possible. From the strength of Italy, this is more realistic. Italian boots go deep into the Mediterranean, and Sardinia and Sicily guard the Mediterranean. If the Italian air force and navy can keep up with the level of World War II, the life of the British navy in the Mediterranean will be very sad. Unfortunately, Italy, which had the world's top navy at that time, maintained such a good geographical advantage that it could not compete with a British sub-fleet at all ... In fact, the fighter performance of the Italian Air Force was very good, and the level of MC.200 series was the same as that of ME 109, but the funny thing is that the advanced aircraft was not equipped with radio ... What can we expect the Italian Air Force to fight? As for the land battlefield, it is not Italy's specialty. It should have organized some elite troops and other Axis forces at the forefront, and at the same time contracted a large number of second-rate troops at that time to help the Germans deal with guerrillas (the Italian army was better than the guerrillas no matter how poorly equipped). Imagine that nearly a million Italian troops are the main force and cooperate with a small number of Germans to deal with guerrillas. If the command is proper, they still have a considerable deterrent effect on guerrilla activities. Here we only talk about containment, not eradication, because for any country, guerrillas can't be completely eliminated. Just keep their activities within the permitted scope and don't fantasize about destroying them.

Italy's greatest contribution to Germany actually appeared after he defected to the Allies ... Funny-a large number of Italy's war material reserves were looted by the Germans, which led to the peak of German military production during World War II in 1943.

Italy's biggest problem lies in Mussolini's stupidity, arrogance and incompetence. If Mussolini did not pay so much attention to the so-called face, but carried out a detailed division of labor with Germany and complemented each other, there would not be so many failures and jokes. The incompetence of a general will kill the three armed forces, and the incompetence of a commander will even lead to the failure of the country. Personally, Mussolini was the second biggest black sheep after Gorbachev in the last century ... At least Mussolini lost his home, but Gorbachev lost the Soviet Union for 70 years. ......