Do not know if this is utmost correct but Italy in Axis strategy was to hold the southern front but push eastweard or westward in tactical...
Well, please do not take something very seriously. Many facets of ww2 has been discussed or published... in terms of time efficient posting, as a...
The bigger picture for Italian NA was still defense for the eventual British counterattack. Maybe under Rommel, a generalship specialized in...
Let me clarify a bit. My idea is that influence of generalship is an important factor in NA. Because Italian NA was in the central position, the...
I know I will be off-topic; as this thread talks about Finnish-Italian relation. How about the interwar months ? If Thousands of Italian...
Then I recommend someone to summarize these points in a sticky post at the top of North Africa and the Mediterranean. The context does not help...
Then taking Malta would have been more important. Regia Maritima should have launched the operation in the closing days of the Battle of France...
I think Model was not entirely figting for defense; his talent for improvisation might help Italy to "rolling with the American and British...
Strategically, even if Torch was successful, American and British material superiority would overcome Italian and Rommel. As most of North Africa...
So in essence, Rommel's fortune was sealed with prospects to defeat no matter what strategy the Italian or German could have employed in North...