Plus as mentioned above which i totally agree with one other factor to the demise of the Italians and that was Psychology, Italians by nature are fun loving and on the whole a peaceful people, Musolini tried to convert a nation from a peaceful nation to an aggressor nation within a short period of time, this he could not succeed, it is one thing to train someone, and to arm them but when it comes to killing that is another, and the Italian psychology did not have that.