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Early Access: Italy First? (Patreon)

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2019-05-16 12:12:33
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Note: Early Access videos are usually without ads. Yet, in some cases there might be some, this is due to the fact that nearly all my videos need a manual review by YouTube for monetization. The problem is, if I turn off the ads, I can't request a review... so I usually wait til the review is done and THEN put them in early access, but sometimes that is not possible. Sorry for the inconvenience.

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Italy First instead of Germany First?

The US and British leadership in the Second World War followed the so called “Europe First” or sometimes called “Germany First” strategy, meaning that there was a focus on defeating Germany first and after that focus against the Japanese in the Pacific. Many of the US military leaders were not particularly happy about this arrangement between Roosevelt and Churchill. Additionally, if we look closer, in practice it was not “Germany First” but “Italy first”. Cover Design by vonKickass. Videos referenced in this video: Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTZmW3qz3Js Wolfpack Tactics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La6BM3HnU98 Was the Afrika Korps worth it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD8eic4uLUw Tactics - Operations - Strategy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yk0gROTHnI Why was the Wehrmacht so effective? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgQglp7OZcA »» SUPPORT MHV «« » paypal donation - https://paypal.me/mhvis » patreon - https://www.patreon.com/mhv » subscribe star - https://www.subscribestar.com/mhv » Book Wishlist https://www.amazon.de/gp/registry/wishlist/3LJIXNJIUXJES/ref=cm_wl_huc_view?language=en_GB »» MERCHANDISE «« » teespring - https://teespring.com/stores/military-history-visualized » SOURCES « Fennell, Jonathan: Fighting the People’s War. The British and Commonwealth Armies and the Second World War. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, 2019 Amazon.com (affiliate): https://amzn.to/2G6ylLs Amazon.de (affiliate): https://amzn.to/2UCTVtV Wagner, Gerhard (Hrsg.): Lagevorträge des Oberbefehlshabers der Kriegsmarine vor Hitler 1939-1945. J. F. Lehmanns Verlag: München, 1972 amazon.de (affiliate): https://amzn.to/2WBKSLo Citino, Robert M.: The Wehrmacht Retreats: Fighting a Lost War, 1943. University Press Kansas, USA, 2012. Amazon.com (affiliate): http://amzn.to/2rtOdkm Amazon.de (affiliate): http://amzn.to/2mWaTEp Ball, Simon: The Mediterranean and North Africa, 1940-1944, in: Cambridge History of the Second World War – Volume I, p. 358-388 Amazon.com (affiliate): http://amzn.to/2zX5ZMB Amazon.de (affiliate): http://amzn.to/2z5j1bF Cambridge History of the Second World War. Volume I: Fighting the War. Cambridge University Press: UK, 2015. Amazon.com (affiliate): https://amzn.to/2BSM3h5 Amazon.de (affiliate): https://amzn.to/2SWVuXi Das Deutsche Reich und der Zweite Weltkrieg, Band 3: Der Mittelmeerraum und Südosteuropa 1940-1941 (English Version below) Amazon.de (affiliate): https://amzn.to/2DZoPnz ENGLISH VERSION: Germany and the Second World War, Volume 3, The Mediterranean, South-east Europe, and North Africa, 1939-1941 Amazon.com link (affiliate): https://amzn.to/2I8eJ6C Das Deutsche Reich und der Zweite Weltkrieg – Band 6 – Der Globale Krieg Amazon.de link (affiliate): http://amzn.to/2igUEAm ENGLISH VERSION: Germany and the Second World War – Volume 6 – The Global War Amazon.com (affiliate): http://amzn.to/2iSsxut Das Deutsche Reich und der Zweite Weltkrieg – Band 8 Amazon.de (affiliate): http://amzn.to/2z6bN7j ENGLISH VERSION: Germany and the Second World War – Volume 8 – The Eastern Front 1943-1944: The War in the East and on the Neighbouring Fronts Amazon.com (affiliate): https://amzn.to/2H5sRhB Rohwer, Jürgen: Critical Convoy Battles of WWII. Crisis in the North Atlantic, March 1943. Stackpole Books: Mechanicsburg (US), 1977 (2015). Amazon.com (affiliate): https://amzn.to/2HoR81q Amazon.de (affiliate): https://amzn.to/2HMsUSp Milner, Marc: Battle of the Atlantic. The History Press: Gloucestershire, 2003 (2011). Amazon.com (affiliate): https://amzn.to/2IZSi4B Amazon.de (affiliate): https://amzn.to/2J5lKWP » DISCLAIMER « As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Als Amazon-Partner verdiene ich an qualifizierten Käufen. » CREDITS & SPECIAL THX « Song: Ethan Meixsell - Demilitarized Zone #ItalyFirst #GermanyFirst #WW2

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Michael Moran

I am glad to see that you are covering the too often overlooked Italian Campaign. You make a good argument that the British strategy was generally the correct one. Most of my sports' coaches, male teachers, family friends, etc. were WW2 vets. Of those that served in the infantry almost all of them started out fighting in Sicily and Italy. For reasons still not clear, almost all National Guard units in Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas were fighting in Italy at sometime.

CavScout
>>22776760

Add Minnesota in there for Africa to Italy, except for the ones sent to the Pacific. And the first Army Rangers.

Ken Goss

Excellent, and as always interesting. You perhaps should have mentioned that the "Indirect Approach" is a long term strategic policy, in force long before WW2. It lead to Gallipoli in WW1, the Spanish approach by Wellington to get to Napoleon, etc. As a small country with a small army, direct attack against the enemy's primary force was usually set aside in favor of using the Royal Navy to go around and hit the enemy where he is weakest.

Military History Visualized
>>22795706

thank you, yeah, good point. I usually think along those lines more when it comes to defense, e.g., when I spoke about Napoleon chances of invading Britain.