No I do not think this was a wise decision at all. After their early failures in East Africa, and I suppose even in North Africa, the Italians should have realized they could not run with the big boys. After saying that Italy was not ready for war until 42 or 43, Mussolini still launched the Etheopia campaign in 1935, and then later this Greece invasion. He should have realized that his troops had poor leadership, heart, and equipment, and pulled out of the foreign campaigns and perhaps defended his own country properly. Despite their relatively weak military, the Italians should have realized that the terrain and such of Greece would make it a difficult country to conquer. After the Italians fell on their ass and were not only repulsed, but lost land in Albania to the couterattacking Greeks. The Germans once again came to their rescue and defeated the Greeks and Brits defending Greece. This only sidetracked Barbarrossa and was a nuicance waste of supplies for the Germans. The Italians had an easily defenseable country, they should have properly fortified the "soft underbelly" first, then worried about crazy invasion plans such as the Greek one, in which commanders were only notified days ahead of time.

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