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  1. How successful could a German attack on France through Italy be?

    There is a Thermopylae effect for the defence facing an attack between the Alps and the coast. OTL the Italians couldn't press a meaningful advantage, but ITTL the Germans would make the defense more problematic. OTL Gamelin took units from the Army of the Alps to reinforce first the Saar and...

  2. Quick WW2 WI: Allies first to Norway...

    My attempt at answering that can be found in posts 31 - 36, 41 & 42, 46, 61 and 69 of 'Fitter Italian Military' in the Timelines section.

  3. A Fitter Italian Military

    Coincidentally I've just come across an article that mentions increasing US investment coming into Italy from the mid -1920's. Also OTL there was a technological/skill exchange in the respective oil industries. As TTL has both a (relatively) larger economic base and (considerably) larger oil...

  4. A Fitter Italian Military

    On Berlin: One of the things about the collapse of France is it precludes any plan involving a division of its military force. This means that Berlin's stock goes down in the estimation of the Danube-Balkan states with respect to checking Soviet expansion in the area. Given also that Germany...

  5. A Fitter Italian Military

    Shadow Knight, your timing is impeccable. The next and final post of this first phase is up. Enjoy. Thank you all for your help, advice and contribution. It has been an awesome experience for me and I hope its proved entertaining. I'll now be doing some long delayed revision and...

  6. A Fitter Italian Military

    June 1940 was a momentous month for international politics, but the greatest impact was made, not in the west, but in the east where Soviet Russia embarked on a series of political and military moves that would see its borders advance further west and complementing its gains in Poland and...

  7. A Fitter Italian Military

    Thanks for the encouragement all... and enough of Clinton's pants... next instalment is up. History may be about to reassert itself.

  8. A Fitter Italian Military

    The German plan for Operation Ausbruch involved four elements. Von Reichenau’s Sixth Army had the thankless task of being the bait and had two principal tasks. The first was to prepare substantial defences in Louvain and Wavre such that when the British Army came forward the lodgement on the...

  9. A Fitter Italian Military

    Next instalment is up...

  10. A Fitter Italian Military

    From the first week of June Britain and France began to militarily pull apart. London’s strategic priorities began to be dominated by the twin considerations of maintaining Narvik and Brussels. Just as the French had found their honour at Sedan and the Bar, so the British had found theirs in...

  11. A Fitter Italian Military

    Next instalment is up... the western front... no nukes.

  12. A Fitter Italian Military

    The fourth week of May 1940 was a time of pause and deliberation for the opposing general staffs. The German advance had been held but not thwarted, the Anglo-French defence had bent but not broken. The Dyle-Meuse line had been breached in three places, Louvain-Wavre, Revin-Charleville and...

  13. A Fitter Italian Military

    whatsinaname: thanks for the stats, didn't have that source but corresponds more or less with what I've found. The next instalment will return to France; TTL is about Italy so I needed to provide some sort of update of where they are placed in terms of their fitter military. But the crux of...

  14. A Fitter Italian Military

    Next installment is up, completing the Oct 1940 review of the Italian military.

  15. A Fitter Italian Military

    It was quite clear that the Regia Marina was the poor cousin of the Italian military. Without recourse to a substantial budget the RM was limited to six battleships by October 1940; four re-conditioned WWI vessels (the Giulio Cesare, Conte di Cavour, Andrea Doria and Caio Duilio) and two modern...

  16. A Fitter Italian Military

    It was quite clear that the Regia Marina was the poor cousin of the Italian military. Without recourse to a substantial budget the RM was limited to six battleships by October 1940; four re-conditioned WWI vessels (the Giulio Cesare, Conte di Cavour, Andrea Doria and Caio Duilio) and two modern...

  17. A Fitter Italian Military

    Thande: Well, actually they're just the OTL names. Most of them went through a redesign when German liquid cooled engines came available, so I've just melted the two together. Katanbuilder: Yeah, can't let things go all Mussolini's way. Shadowknight: this air combat thing is becoming the...

  18. A Fitter Italian Military

    Next instalment up... some RA wank

  19. A Fitter Italian Military

    The Regia Aeronautica had grown significantly in the year since the opening of the Yugoslav invasion. The decisions to discontinue air-cooled engines and rejection of biplane and trimotor designs (with some notable exceptions) were confirmed in their wisdom and the officers that championed...

  20. A Fitter Italian Military

    That's a fair point. For suspension do they go Christie, and spend some time on transmission? I can't see them switching to diesel, but maybe. ITTL the Char has been met in numbers (that is concentrated in place) three times: in the Bois de la Marfee at Sedan, in open country at Dinant and...
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