The Italian Army was very good.

Mussolini wanted Italy to become a new Rome and he did so. He did Italy a great military nation which was a superpower during the late twenties and early thirties ( because all the other powers were in Economic crisis , but he forgot that The Roman Empire was also corrupt and full od thieves. he achieved that too! All the weaphon's factories in Italy were directed by tipical Romans; corrupt people who spent all their money in rich houses in Tripoli and whores, instead on making the weaphons they were doing with quality.
The officers of the Italian army were officers just because the benefits of it, but they never kept officer's responsabilities. However, during the 1930s Italy was a military power. That is why they nearly won the Schneider cup, or made intrepid trips like Marshall Italo Blabo's trip to Brasil... The Italian aeroplanes showed themselves worth it in the Spanish Civil War and in the early stages of the war. They could face even Brittish Hurricanes! The Italian navy was amazing and the Italian soldiers were very brave.
What everybody remembers are filthy cannons like the Italian 75 ( an awful copy of the 75 French from Verdun ), the 1870s rifles and tanks like the M13... The Italian could never achieved huge victories because of the lazy officers! Not for the most of the weaphons or the soldiers! When Italians were re-equiped with German weaphons in Russia they achieved victories as good as any of the Waffen SS!
Ground weaphons were very bad.
Aeroplanes were good.
And their ships were awesome.

But Italian people could not bear such a war, because of their nature.

Let's remember the brave divisions Brescia, Trento, Trieste, Ariete, Folgore!

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"War is less costly than servitude, the choice is always between Verdun and Dachau." - Jean Dutourd, French veteran of both world wars

"A mon fils: depuis que tes yeux sont fermes les miens n’ont cessé de pleurir." - Mère française, Verdun