5 Pietro Badoglio Quotes on Strategy

Pietro Badoglio quotes on strategy

1. If I announce the armistice and the Americans don't send sufficient reinforcements and don't land near Rome, the Germans will seize the city and put in a puppet fascist government.

3. Militarily it was impossible to invade with the dispositions we had made. We had only seven divisions in Albania. Two of them were necessary to hold the Albanian population from going into revolt. Two others were in reserve. That left us three divisions with which to undertake an offensive. Against us, the Greeks disposed of fifteen divisions. We might have been able to undertake an offensive had those figures been reversed.

4. I think if we call in the experts we can draw up the full scheme, with the rallying points arranged.

6. Sir, give me a single battalion of the Royal Carabineers and I will drive these upstarts into the sea.

15. Io i miei nemici li strangolo lentamente col guanto di velluto.