Comments by "jorge luis barrios mur" (@jorgebarriosmur) on "Why did Italy attack Ethiopia in 1935?" video.

If the money they spend in their colonial adventures, would have been spend in the modernisation of their army (not only the material, I mean training and adquisition of modern warfaretactics and knowledge for their officers), the Italian army would have made a much better performance in WWII. Luckily they did not, and performed mostly as an anchor for the axis capacities. Just imagine, if they could have began the war with several divisions like the "Ariete" ( armed with tanks and tacticts that could match a german motorized division), and with one ore even two functional aircraft-carrier groups, including the capacity to launch (small) amphibious assaults, and the aricraft, (modern and in enough numbers) to dominate the central mediterranean...... that would have been totaly another scenario.....
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