When World War II broke out, Italy's population was 45 million.
With reference to the two world wars, the number of troops that Italy can mobilize is about 6 million.
Don't be surprised, even if so many people can be mobilized, when any country is at a critical moment of life and death, its war potential is extremely terrifying.
During World War I, the pre-war population of the Allied Powers was approximately 355 million, with a mobilized force of 42.578 million.
The Allies had a total pre-war population of 140 million and a total mobilized force of 22.85 million.
When the Russo-German War broke out, Russia had a population of 190 million and eventually mobilized 27 million troops.
Before World War II, Germany had a total population of approximately 80 million and a mobilized force of approximately 17 million.
Taking into account Germany's mobilization efforts, Italy can mobilize close to 10 million troops.
So in theory, Tony Piola is right.
But in reality, Tony Piola just blew the whistle.
In another time and space, Italy's total military strength during World War II was 2 million.
These 2 million include 600,000 Italians sent to North Africa and 500,000 sent to Abyssinia.
Britain has now mobilized 500 people to join the army. This figure includes servants recruited by Britain from its colonies and overseas territories.
Some 5.5 million people have now been called up in southern Africa, including the Southern African Union National Forces.
The United States now has 6.5 million people drafted, and the number is increasing rapidly.
So when it comes to technology and resources, we don't even get to the point. The Allies can win only by having more people.
If Italy goes all out with military force, it can indeed conscript 10 million people, but after the conquest is over, the Italians will probably rebel. Italians are so peace-loving.
Tony Piola knew this very well, so he was just trying to fool Vitali. It would be best if he could scare him, and if he couldn't, he would stop talking.
It doesn't matter to Vitali, he is just the executor and has no right to make decisions. The people who have the right to make decisions are in Casablanca.
In fact, Tony Piola himself knows that his current situation is not good.
Arnim and Messe surrendered one after another, both of whom were much more important than Tony Piola.
Especially Messe. After the Battle of Volgograd, Messe has become a hero in Italy, and his influence in Italy has greatly increased. Otherwise, the fat bald man would not have sent Messe to North Africa in a hurry.
Mesai and Anim have now been sent to Casablanca, and they must also cooperate with the Allies in order to receive treatment commensurate with their status.
The meeting officially began the day after Roosevelt arrived in Casablanca.
The first outcome of the meeting was that Britain, the United States, and South Africa unanimously decided to increase assistance to Russia, help Russia defeat Germany as soon as possible, and completely reverse the situation of the war.
This request was made by Molotov. At the same time as the Casablanca Conference was held, the Russian Air Force and the German Air Force were engaged in a fierce air battle in the North Caucasus. Both sides suffered heavy casualties. Russia was in urgent need of air assistance.
Coincidentally, Roosevelt's decision was similar to Roark's. He also agreed to provide weapons and equipment but did not agree to send pilots to directly participate in the war.
Relatively speaking, Molotov's enthusiasm for American equipment is much less than that of southern African equipment.
The Americans' aid to Russia was actually mixed with a lot of private goods. The Lend-Lease Act was nominally aid, but in fact every bullet had to be paid for, plus interest.
The Americans even pretended to be inferior, and the fighter jets they leased to Russia were relatively backward models. In other words, they were clearing their inventory.
Most of the fighter jets provided by the United States to Russia are old models such as P-36 and P-40, which cannot compete with the German BF-109. The Russians had no choice but to accept them.
The P-36 is a model developed by the American Curtiss Company in 1936. It entered service in 1938. By 1943, it was far out of date. The Americans themselves did not like it, and most of them were exported.
The P-40 is an upgraded version of the P-36. Its performance has been improved to a certain extent compared to the P-36, but there is no fundamental improvement. Especially in high-altitude combat, the P-40 has obvious flaws.
The performance of the P-40 at medium and low altitudes is pretty good. Once the altitude exceeds 6,000 meters, the speed and controllability of the P-40 will drop sharply.
The German BF-109G uses a cockpit pressurization device, which greatly improves the high-altitude combat performance of the BF-109G. Compared with this, the shortcomings of the P-40 have become increasingly obvious, which makes Russia very dissatisfied.
I spent a lot more than the normal price to buy a bunch of defective goods. This is taking advantage of the Russians.
Although the weapons and equipment in southern Africa are expensive, they are of reliable quality and advanced technology, so you get what you pay for.
American weapons and equipment are also expensive and their performance is not good. They are obviously taking advantage of the situation. In actual combat, the Russian Air Force found that the performance of the P-40 is not even as good as that of the P-39, which has been in service for 38 years. This is very embarrassing.
The P-39 is a fighter jet launched by the American Bell Company. The aircraft is equipped with 4 machine guns and a 25mm cannon. This gives the P-39 one of the most powerful firepower nowadays and is very popular among Russian pilots.
There is no way, the Russians like to output violence. The only criterion for measuring the quality of an aircraft is whether it has sufficient firepower. About half of the fighter jets purchased by Russia are P-39, and only 48 P-40s were received.
The other half are Southern African fighter jets.
Compared with the P-39, the firepower of the Southern African fighter is more balanced. Although the caliber of the 20 mm cannon is smaller than the 25 mm of the P-39, it is also quite powerful. It is the same caliber as the BF109 cannon, and the aviation machine gun is two
It is quite 12.7mm, and its power is much stronger than the 7.92mm MG17 equipped with BF109.
The P-39 is equipped with a machine gun with a caliber of 7.62 mm and a reserve of 4,000 rounds of ammunition. The 25 mm cannon has only 50 rounds of ammunition.
In response to Russian preferences, the Americans are upgrading the P-39's armament system. The upgraded P-39 also uses two 12.7 mm caliber machine guns, and the caliber of the cannon has been increased to 37 mm.
The cost of this is that the ammunition reserve is greatly reduced. After using the 12.7mm machine gun, the P-39's ammunition reserve dropped to 400 rounds, and the 37mm machine gun's ammunition reserve was only 30 rounds.
I don’t know if this amount of bullets is enough for the Russian pilots to shoot for several minutes.
Like Roark, although Roosevelt did not send military pilots to Russia to participate in the war, he did not prohibit Russia from recruiting mercenary pilots from the United States.
The United States trains pilots in a similar way to Southern Africa. There are also a large number of flying clubs in the country, but the skills of American pilots are generally inferior to those of Southern African pilots.
Of course, Molotov did not gain anything.
Roque and Roosevelt did not help, but de Gaulle prepared to send the "Normandy" Air Group to Russia to participate in the war. This decision won Molotov's favor.
The relationship between Russia and France is quite special. When Britain was gloriously isolated before World War I, France teamed up with Russia to keep warm and fight against the Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria, and Italy. Britain did not join the Triple Entente until 1907.
After the first day of the meeting, Roque and Winston had dinner, and Winston made sarcastic remarks about de Gaulle.
"How is it? Do you feel betrayed?" Winston asked Rock with a smile. Most of the pilots in the "Normandy" Air Group have received training in Southern Africa. It can be said that they were trained by the Southern African Air Force.
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Winston disliked de Gaulle and, like Roosevelt, preferred Giraud, who also attended the conference and also represented Free France.
So Roque can understand why De Gaulle sent the "Normandy" Air Group to Russia, because De Gaulle needed Russia's support.
Giraud received the support of both Roosevelt and Winston. De Gaulle was deeply disturbed. His relationship with Giraud was actually not very good. As the commander-in-chief of the Free French Forces, Giraud had always maintained close ties with Vichy France.
This made de Gaulle very dissatisfied.
After de Gaulle established Free France, Vichy France tried De Gaulle in absentia and sentenced him to death for treason.
Although Pétain subsequently signed an amnesty for de Gaulle, de Gaulle knew very well that if Free France and Vichy France formed a coalition government after the war, de Gaulle would most likely be excluded from the new government.
De Gaulle would definitely not accept it, otherwise he would not have established a Free France.
Under such circumstances, Giraud still had no ties with Vichy France, and de Gaulle must have been very angry.
"You think too much, Winston. General de Gaulle is free to do whatever he wants." Roque was not angry, but Roosevelt and Winston were not well-intentioned either.
If they really wanted to fight against the Axis powers for the sake of internal stability within the Allies, Roosevelt and Winston should wholeheartedly support de Gaulle instead of sowing discord.
De Gaulle is the president of Free France. Even if the president does not support him and supports the commander-in-chief of the army, this is not sowing discord.
Giraud was also stupid. He was flirting with Vichy France, but was actually caught by de Gaulle. Soldiers are really not good at playing politics, and they don't know how they died.
"I didn't give General de Gaulle enough support, so you won't be angry." Winston still attached great importance to Roque, and when he said it in this tone, it was hard for Roque to get angry even if he was angry.
"I understand, the mainland's balanced policy -" Roque pointed out directly that everyone is for the benefit of their respective countries, and there is nothing to blame.
Of course, I understand that Rock does not agree with Britain's continental balancing policy.
"Thank you. The British Empire is in an unprecedented dangerous moment. As the British Prime Minister, I must do this." Winston sighed. It would be great if time stayed at the time when Winston was the Governor-General of Southern Africa.
When Winston served as the Governor-General of Southern Africa, the relationship between Southern Africa and Britain was in an unprecedented honeymoon period, and the relationship between Winston and Rock also took a further step. That was Winston's best memory.
Now Winston and Rock have to work for the interests of Britain and Southern Africa respectively, and inevitably poach each other. Winston is working hard to maintain his friendship with Rock.
So does Rock.
"Winston, one thing you have to understand is that no matter how hard you try, the decline of the United Kingdom is irreversible." Rock was not mocking Winston, but was reminding him.
Winston's loyalty to Britain was unquestionable.
However, personal abilities are limited after all. After all, Winston does not have a golden finger and cannot break out of the shackles of this era.
Even if there is, there is only a limit to what Winston can do.
The decline of a dynasty is not a problem of one person, but a problem that arises in all strata of society and cannot be solved, so we can only break everything and start over.
The UK is like this now. Internal interests are competing in a mess. All classes want more rights. Overseas colonies and dominions are seeking independence one after another. Externally, they are facing threats from hostile countries and strong challenges from allied countries.
