Mark’s Reviews > Mussolini's War: Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse: 1935-1943 > Status Update

Now Italy’s fighting a total war that they don’t have the capacity to wage. Mussolini’s inability to decide where to concentrate his limited resources isn’t helping matters, either,

It’s an inescapable conclusion from Gooch’s account that Italy had no business going to war in June 1940 and everyone knew it.