Comments by "" (@neutronalchemist3241) on "Which Generals from Each Major Fighting Nation Made Their Enemies Breathe a Sigh of Relief?" video.

  1. The usual way to sack ineffective commanders is to "promote" them to a not-operative position.
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  2.  @ljubastojanovic608  Have you ever heard of WWI? Or of 1500 years of history?
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  3. Before the war the relationship between Mussolini and hitler was that between a ruthless politician and his psycho student. IE Mussolini advised Hitler "the men with whom you take power are not the same men with whom you govern" (he promoted to prestigious but harmless positions his own). The result was the "Night of the Long Knives".
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  4. Germans were retreating to already prepared positions (the "Gothic line"). Him pushing them wouldn't have made any difference.
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  5. In their defense, Mussolini was an example of political interference in military affairs made ignoring any strategic or logistic consideration. 1) Attacking France from the Alps in 1940. Carl von Clausewitz compared it to "lifting a rifle by grabbing it by the tip of the bayonet". A similar attack would have needed months of preparation, since the French forts had to be destroyed using artillery or mines to make any advance, instead Mussolini informed his generals of his decision just 12 days before the attack (and only for a delay, otherwise it would have been 7 days). 2) Attacking Egypt. Graziani argued in any way that the Italian African army wasn't prepared. The numerical superiority was shallow. Lacking tanks, AT artillery and trucks, they could just advance in a straight line along the coast, and would have been open to any counter-attack from a more mobile force coming from the desert. But he was forced to attack anyway. (what he had foreseen puntually happened, but, it has to be said, he didn't anything to prevent it). 3) Greece. An attack in late-autumn/winter on the mountains between Albania and Greece, without a clear numerical and technical superiority was doomed to fail. The ineptitude of Visconti Prasca in anything regarding logistic turned what could only be a stalemate until spring into a disaster.
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  6. Cadorna's faults had been amply exagerated. He was not worse than Conrad or Haig.
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  7. Patton losing three months in the useless siege of Metz did little to change their opinion.
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