[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

This happened during the horrific 12 Battles of the Isonzo, one of the nastiest, bloodiest, but least well known campaigns of WWI, between Italy and Austro-Hungary.

“Cumulative casualties of the numerous battles of the Isonzo were enormous. Half of the entire Italian war death total — some 300,000 of 600,000 — were suffered along the Soča (Isonzo). Austro-Hungarian losses, while by no means as numerous, were nevertheless high at around 200,000 (of an overall total of around 1.2 million casualties).”

Between the deaths and casualties, Italy was so militarily crippled after WWI, that it hadn’t really recovered by WWII.

[DUMBGRUNT]

—”This happened during the horrific 12 Battles of the Isonzo, one of the nastiest, bloodiest, but least well known campaigns of WWI, between Italy and Austro-Hungary.”

While in RVN the occasional topic was to compare our situation to the Grunts that went before us.

Incomprehensible.

If I lucked into two nearby positions?
Approx 100 klicks from Soca to the trailhead approach to the mountain hut?

https://www.google.com/maps/place/So%C4%8Da/@46.1921993,12.3341887,9z/data=!4m19!1m13!4m12!1m6!1m2!1s0x477baa0061f316c3:0x163bee60453a3a0e!2zU2_EjWE!2m2!1d13.5956455!2d46.0506799!1m3!2m2!1d12.1405088!2d46.5307123!3e0!3m4!1s0x477baa0061f316c3:0x163bee60453a3a0e!8m2!3d46.0506799!4d13.5956455

[Rebelbase]

All that blood and loss of life just so Italy could pick up some carrion scraps of empire when Germany/Austria-Hungary were defeated.

[colorado tanker]

From the accounts I have read the "White War" has to have been one of the most miserable places ever for a dogface soldier to have to fight in.

Utterly incompetent Italian generalship just kept feeding men into that meat-grinder.