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Quoted By: >>5774281
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_battleship_Roma_(1940)#Loss
>1943
>Betray Germany and try to hand over your battleship to the Allies
>The Germans send in Do 217 bombers
>Italian admiral thought these bombers were Allied air cover
>Radio-guided bombs hit the ship's magazine and fuel tanks
>1,400 Italians die
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Candia
>1648
>Lead an unprovoked attack on the Ottoman Empire
>The Ottomans besiege a Venetian city on the island Crete
>Try to blockade the Ottoman fleet
>This ends with the Venetian commander getting crushed by a mast
>The French send in a giant dreadnought warship to help the Venetians
>It detonates on accident and the French pull out
>Surrender the city to the Ottomans
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_Offensive
>1935
>Italians invading further into Ethiopia
>Ethiopians have inferior technology and half their army had just deserted
>Still managed to surround Italian forces, killing thousands of them
>Disabled Italian tank machine guns and tracks, then killed their crews
>Ethiopians were only stopped when Italians used excessive mustard gas
I am always skeptical of claims that Italy is the heir to the Roman Empire when they exhibit none of Rome's competence in warfare. What does /int/ think about this? Has any army seen more failures than Italy's army? And by the way I am italian but maybe pol is right and romans were all blonde and nordic looking before muslim invasions. Is that why we're so incompetent?
>1943
>Betray Germany and try to hand over your battleship to the Allies
>The Germans send in Do 217 bombers
>Italian admiral thought these bombers were Allied air cover
>Radio-guided bombs hit the ship's magazine and fuel tanks
>1,400 Italians die
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Candia
>1648
>Lead an unprovoked attack on the Ottoman Empire
>The Ottomans besiege a Venetian city on the island Crete
>Try to blockade the Ottoman fleet
>This ends with the Venetian commander getting crushed by a mast
>The French send in a giant dreadnought warship to help the Venetians
>It detonates on accident and the French pull out
>Surrender the city to the Ottomans
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_Offensive
>1935
>Italians invading further into Ethiopia
>Ethiopians have inferior technology and half their army had just deserted
>Still managed to surround Italian forces, killing thousands of them
>Disabled Italian tank machine guns and tracks, then killed their crews
>Ethiopians were only stopped when Italians used excessive mustard gas
I am always skeptical of claims that Italy is the heir to the Roman Empire when they exhibit none of Rome's competence in warfare. What does /int/ think about this? Has any army seen more failures than Italy's army? And by the way I am italian but maybe pol is right and romans were all blonde and nordic looking before muslim invasions. Is that why we're so incompetent?
