02923nam 22004933 450 991016318190332120230803214458.09781782897507178289750X(CKB)3710000001046274(MiAaPQ)EBC4807944(Au-PeEL)EBL4807944(CaPaEBR)ebr11354499(OCoLC)975223624(Perlego)3018022(EXLCZ)99371000000104627420210901d2014 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierDiscarded Victory - North Africa, 1940-19411st ed.San Francisco :Lucknow Books,2014.©2014.1 online resource (31 pages)Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ABSTRACT -- MEDITERRANEAN THEATER, 1941-STRATEGIC OVERVIEW -- STRATEGIC SETTING -- CORRELATION OF FORCES -- THE WESTERN DESERT -- SIDI BARRANI TO BEDA FOMM -- STRATEGIC MISJUDGMENT -- CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY.The Anglo-Italian campaign of 1940-41 resulted in one of the most lopsided operational victories of the entire Second World War. Strategic misjudgement at the highest levels of British political and military leadership would discard the opportunities won by its fighting forces in North Africa and commit them to a catastrophic intervention in Greece. In 1940, Italy fielded a numerically overwhelming, but technologically deficient, conscript military force on the continent of Africa. Italy's political leaders expected her 500, 000 strong North African army to quickly defeat the British troops stationed in the theater of operation. The British forces, though inferior in numbers, were well-trained regulars who possessed more superior weaponry than their Italian foes. In the brief, high intensity conflict waged in the North African deserts from December 1940 to February 1941, the British would annihilate an Italian army of 130, 000 soldiers. On the verge of complete victory in the North African theater, the British would commit an act of extraordinary strategic misjudgement and divert their efforts to Greece in order to engage the Axis forces on the continent of Europe. The discarded early victory in North Africa would lead Britain to catastrophe in Greece, cost them the initiative in the war, and nearly led to their defeat in North Africa. Military art and scienceStrategyMilitary campaignsMilitary art and science.Strategy.Military campaigns.940.54229999999995Thompson Dennis H211167MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910163181903321Discarded Victory - North Africa, 1940-19413407531UNINA