If you ask me Churchill was kind of a retard.
Did he really believe that Yugoslavia and Italy were the "soft underbelly" of Europe?
It is probably the most inhospitable areas of Europe to stage a landing operation.
Everyone likes to paint the Americans as stupid arrogant cowboys, but if we actually tried to land in Europe earlier (say operation hammer happened in 1943) we could have opened up a more meaningful front for the Russians and made rapid progress.
Italy was practically like watching paint dry and we technically didn't even liberate the whole country before the war ended. Ever wonder why there was no Saving Private Ryan about the Italy campaign? It was a massive drudge....thats why!
Churchill can't have been serious about Yugoslavia... it was like the Afghanistan of Europe in terms of wild militant groups.
Did he really believe that Yugoslavia and Italy were the "soft underbelly" of Europe?
It is probably the most inhospitable areas of Europe to stage a landing operation.
Everyone likes to paint the Americans as stupid arrogant cowboys, but if we actually tried to land in Europe earlier (say operation hammer happened in 1943) we could have opened up a more meaningful front for the Russians and made rapid progress.
Italy was practically like watching paint dry and we technically didn't even liberate the whole country before the war ended. Ever wonder why there was no Saving Private Ryan about the Italy campaign? It was a massive drudge....thats why!
Churchill can't have been serious about Yugoslavia... it was like the Afghanistan of Europe in terms of wild militant groups.
