Images of the Italian mountains in 1944 drive home the madness of the Allied decision to fight a campaign up their entire length, in territory so perfectly suited to German defence.The idea of attacking the "soft underbelly of Europe" was pushed, hard, by Churchill, part of the critical contribution made by the British in defeating the Axis. ;')
Churchill also had a hand in the Gallipoli disaster in WWI. His eye for soft underbellies hadn’t improved much in the intervening years.