Why was Italy's military so shit-tier in WWII?

>gasses 200,000 Ethiopians
>lacks Slovenes in concentration camps
>ethnically cleanses Libya
>starves 150,000 Greeks to death
>installs Ante Pavelic in Yugoslavia who proceeds to kill 500,000 Serbs and Jews
Italy is plenty willing to kill, but only against people who can barely fight back.

>Let's load our machine guns with stripper clips and use an oiling system in the desert!
What were they thinking?

Lions lead by donkeys, but unironically. Italian soldiers made a decent show of themselves

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charge_of_the_Savoia_Cavalleria_at_Izbushensky

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decima_Flottiglia_MAS

spoken like a pussified eurozone lackey, Italians have always been belligerent and adept at war, just too good at it and too bad at getting along with themselves to do the whole empire thing more than once.

Better than the french thought

Terrible leadership and outdated equipment due to modernizing too early and having previously spent massive amounts of money and materiel on pointless wars in Spain, Ethiopia, Albania, and Greece before deciding to fight great powers.

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Their officer corps was a trainwreck. Infighting, personal grudges, sacking political opponents, allowing divisions to go unsupported, literally stealing each others' supplies, hiding plans from each other, and more fucked up garbage and complacency.

I mean, the Nazis had some of that even, but goddamn the Italians never had the drive to accomplish anything as commanders. For fuck's sake, they almost lost Albania to Greece despite having an unimaginable advantage in almost every respect but leadership quality.

t.mafia

You think anyone is falling for your dirty fucking lies, Giuseppe?

>Italians are very friendly people
Yes, they are. But they are ever-prideful. Don't ever mention Napoleon, the Sack of Rome, or Aragon/Spain to an Italian. They get very defensive and opinionated once you stop egging them on about Roma and her Imperium.

>War isn’t their thing.
It was for a longer time than it hasn't been. Peace in Italy is a very recent concept. Friendly, they have always been, prideful too, but peaceful and friendly do not mean the same thing. Remember Italians consider Roman history to be their own, not just Renaissance Italy and forward.

absolutely not

Mostly because of very shit equipment, just look at what their tanks looked like

>literal confirmed fake

Memes aside Italian Invasion of France was an absolute shit show on par with the Greece and everything else they tried

They still performed better than the French despite your claim

Italians are angry manlets, ever so often they will have bouts of manlet rage but they will always be crushed by a equal or weaker country.

>Military Corruption
>Military Incompetence
>No good miliatry doctrine
>No good military industrialization
>Outdated equipment
>Generals more worried about filling their coffers then actual duty
>Mussolini doing shit about fixing all above
It isn't that italian soldiers were shitty cowards, but even opposite... Italians performed many feats of bravery and fought good, but leadership was beyond fucked...

>everything about the italian war effort sucked
>everything but the olympic pod racing team

Sounds like the emulated the romans

Lions led by donkeys is meant to mean that the officer is good
T.british officer that read philosophy on leadership

*blocks your path*

Why is there commemorative stuff to the ppl who died from the same timethen?

I said to my face and not online, bitch.

Each time you claim this, and each time you get proven wrong
Just stop

even though the wiki article is gone, its just a part of overall italian invasion of france now. Also look on french wikipedia, they still have a separete article about it

Fuck you

>what is Rome

>french wikipedia

>Modern Italians are the same people as Romans
Current meds are hard to tell apart from north africans

WE

It isn't "gone", there never have been any specific wiki page about that battle

The battle box is part of another article
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouvrage_Cap_Martin#Casemate_du_Pont_Saint_Louis

Btw it isn't fake in any way, as proven by this Italian poster commemorating the battle

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