LEADER 02923nam 22004933 450 001 9910163181903321 005 20230803214458.0 010 $a9781782897507 010 $a178289750X 035 $a(CKB)3710000001046274 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4807944 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4807944 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11354499 035 $a(OCoLC)975223624 035 $a(Perlego)3018022 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001046274 100 $a20210901d2014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDiscarded Victory - North Africa, 1940-1941 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aSan Francisco :$cLucknow Books,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014. 215 $a1 online resource (31 pages) 327 $aIntro -- 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. 330 8 $aThe 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. 606 $aMilitary art and science 606 $aStrategy 606 $aMilitary campaigns 615 0$aMilitary art and science. 615 0$aStrategy. 615 0$aMilitary campaigns. 676 $a940.54229999999995 700 $aThompson$b Dennis H$0211167 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910163181903321 996 $aDiscarded Victory - North Africa, 1940-1941$93407531 997 $aUNINA