so, italian army sucked during wwii

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I'm not sure they were trying too hard, my great uncle was drafted into that army. He surrendered the first chance he got.

[–]jet199 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Pretty much what happened with the French as well.

I wonder if WW1 rather than driving young people to want to fight in another war actually made more of them realise it wasn't worth dying for, especially men who grew up on the continent which got ripped up by it.

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I'm sure that exacerbated the situation, but conscripts would have joined the army willingly if they had actually wanted to be in a war. Same issue in Vietnam, except nobody wanted to surrender to the the VC.

It's one of the big advantages of using volunteer armies instead, the officers don't have to constantly force men to be somewhere they don't want to be, doing something they don't want to do.