Friedrich

You could blame most things on bad leadership; Singapore, Moscow, George Bush jnr..whole host of things.

The elderly British battleships of the QE class were more than able to hold their own against the Italians and many Italian modern designs were bad. They were not these great warships you seem so convinced they were; notably deficient in gunnery technology and protection and based on a sports car mentality that permeated Italian ship design from at least the 1880's.

And they still needed that Carrier. Unless you are going to go on and replace Regia Aeronautica with competent leaders too?

Jumbo

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