NAVAL SITUATION IN THE MEDITERRANEAN. 6. British successes in Egypt have been a contributory cause of a general deterioration in Italian national morale, otherwise they have not affected the ability of the Italian navy to carry out the role assigned to it, in J.I.C. (40) 382. The strength of the Italian fleet remains relatively unchanged since that paper was written. Further, we have not gained any bases better placed for conducting operations against the sea communications essential to Italy or Germany for maintaining land forces operating from Tripoli, or from the Tunis Bizerta area.
- Collection ID
- CAB81
- Conflict
- Second World War
- Countries
- Egypt Germany Italy Libya Morocco Sicily Spain Tunisia
- Document Reference
- CAB 81/99/39
- Document Types
- Report
- File Reference
- CAB 81/99
- Identifier
- 10.1080/swwf.cab81.0099.039
- Keywords
- Vichy Regime Predicting Enemy Intentions Assessing Enemy Strength Axis Powers
- Languages
- English
- Organizations
- Chiefs of Staff Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee Joint Planning Staff
- Pages
- 2
- Persons Discussed
- Victor Cavendish-Bentinck Francis Davidson John Godfrey
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- Themes
- Military Intelligence International Relations
