LAND FORCES. 9. Italy is not in a position to maintain her present scale of military equipment in the event of entering upon large scale operations. She is very short of certain essential equipment, particularly artillery equipments, and her factory capacity for army equipment is also short. 10. If, on the other hand, the operations were to be confined to a campaign against Egypt from Libya, she would be unable to operate more than a maximum of 8 divisions. In this case, in addition to reserves in Libya, she would be able to draw upon reserves in Italy, and consequently her dependence on Germany should not be increased for a considerable time.
- Collection ID
- CAB81
- Conflict
- Second World War
- Countries
- Albania Egypt Germany Gibraltar Iraq Italian East Africa Italy Libya Malta Romania Spain United Kingdom
- Document Reference
- CAB 81/98/24
- Document Types
- Memorandum
- File Reference
- CAB 81/98
- Identifier
- 10.1080/swwf.cab81.0098.024
- Keywords
- Italian Armed Forces Axis Powers Military Strength Economic Intelligence Naval Strength War Materials Resources Assessing Enemy Strength
- Languages
- English
- Organizations
- Chiefs of Staff Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee
- Pages
- 6
- Persons Discussed
- Frederick Beaumont-Nesbitt Victor Cavendish-Bentinck
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- Themes
- Military Intelligence
