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KYOON GRIFFEY JR
Apr 12, 2010



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HannibalBarca posted:

In Cadorna's defense, the rocky start for the Italian army can partially be explained by the fact that their army was mobilized, demobilized, and remobilized as the civilian leadership tried to figure out when and if they were actually going to war. And then the troops arrived at the Austrian barbed wire to find that nobody aside from specialists had boltcutters :v:

of course, that still leaves 11 other Isonzos that were 110% his fault.

I'll give another half-hearted defense of Cadorna. If you look at the border between A-H and Italy, there's really only about one place which is only hilly/mountainous rather than brutally hilly/mountainous. There's a reason that there were 12 Isonzos and it was due to terrain. Now the way those battles were planned and executed is all on him, but if you look at the map, any conflict is going to be 100% concentrated forces bashing in to each other in Gorizia.

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