>>43756
Well no they had no plan to invade the Balkans, Alanbrooke, the man responsible for Britian's strategic plans said as much.

They would have to place units in the Italian peninsular yes, but only up north near Corsica. To threaten the South they would have to take Corsica as well. The Germans were placing forces all over the peninsular as it was, hence how they took Rome and disarmed the Italians so quickly when they changed sides.

Occupying the islands on route to Genoa still involves occupying them, it takes time, the Germans did have forces there as well.

>In fact the Allies could have camouflage an attempt at Genoa as an invasion of Sardinia and Corsica.

It's not really camouflaging if you have to take the islands you were pretending to try to take anyway.

>Also you still don't seem to really have a grasp on what I'm writing, do you.

I know, you are just writing down what his thoughts on the matter are. I was just saying that they were not necessarily so.