Italian Insanity: 12 Battles of the Isonzo | Animated History

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Generals: How many attempts do you want? Cadorna: Sì !

Luigi Cadorna was one of the most effective commanders, that the Central Powers ever had. No one killed more Italian soldiers than he did.

It's so hard to comprehend the staggering numbers of casualties. Each one of these battles costs tens of thousands of lives, whole communities devastated.

I'm from Slovenia and my great-grandfather fought on this front for Austro-hungary. He fortunately survived and when he returned home, he gave my grandmother (his daughter) a white flower that only grows in the Alps as a gift; he picked it during the fighting and kept it for her.

Italian General : "Attack it again." Italian Officer : "But sir, we already tried that." Italian General : "They won't expect the same thing for the 12th time."

The Italian diplomat initially present at the Versailles conference broke down in tears when he realized that the full extent of Italian territorial demands would not be met. He quit and was soon replaced

A relatively young Erwin Rommel fought in the Battle of Caporetto. He had three rifle companies and an MG unit (~150 men total), and during a little over two days captured over 80 artillery pieces and 9,000 Italians, with 6 KIA on his forces. He would later bring a token force and trick the enemy into believing they were surrounded, and captured a further 10,000 men.

Excellent video. In Argentina until now the word "Cadorna" is related to disaster and also as a synonym to the slang word used to refer to the male reproductive organ. This happened because at the time of WWI the Italian immigration was really vast in Argentina

My great-grandfather (who I never met) fought in the battle of Caporetto/Kobarid. Until the day he died, he'd do all in his power to avoid passing through any street named after Luigi Cadorna.

The most interesting thing about WW1 to me is that we see some nations rotating quickly through high command officers, like the french, and others sticking with the same guy regardless of how bad it's going, Austria and Italy. It boggles my mind that Cadorna wasn't sacked until after 12 battles of the same damn river.

In Italy, Cadorna has today a terrible reputation. Italian soldiers under his command had to be extremely brave. The strategy at the time was called " strategia delle spallate ", basically based of ininterrupt waves of attacks until the enemy breaks. Something obsolete, but used in WW2 by soviet union.

My family has lost one to his arrogance and stubborness. A beloved husband and father, who recommended his family to the creator every step he took towards the train to the north. We never found his body, his brother searched every field hospital only to be met with raised shoulders. "Cadorna" is one of the heaviest swearword under my roof If you want to understand how Italy feels about him, take a look to "Uomini Contro" best WW1 movie ever made PS: for those wondering how a sammarinese family got involved in that cursed bloodbath, he was from my grandma branch of family which was 100% italian, so he and his brothers were drafted. Useless to say double citizenship was not an option so my mother took my grandfather sammarinese citizenship and here I am.

Wow a FarCry 3 reference in the year of our Lord 2022. Whoever drew that thumbnail deserves a raise.

Im from Austria and hiked a long way along the Isonzo frontline with my dad while he would read me storys and reports about the battles. There are still so many old bunkers, positions and fortresses left covered in barbed wire and laiden with old tin cans, beyonettes and gasmask filters. It truly was a horrific part of the war and should never happen again between our nations. Rip to all fallen.

As a US/NATO soldier, I learned to rappel in a quarry near to the monument there and have been to Udine many times in winter. A major point of the rappelling trip, in addition to learning to manage fear of heights and going off a 300' cliff backwards was to learn the futility of assaulting dug in positions on cliff faces and why it's important to study military history.

Italian General: We're gonna try another frontal assault Italian Soldier: Did I ever tell you the definition of Insanity? That thumbnail is golden.

As an Italian, I have always found borderline insulting that across the country there are still squares and streets named after Cadorna, although I read that in very recent years some towns are actually removing his name. It still baffles me how such an incompetent butcher, who still thought of warfare in Napoleonic terms in the era of machine guns, managed to be in charge of the Italian forces for so long despite disastrous loss after loss.

We don't talk about Luigi Cadorna, he's the Conrad von Hötzendorf of the Italian Army in ww1

I live in Triest, which is really near the Isonzo, these battles are really important to this day. A poet that I studied in school, wrote that even the austrians were surprised of the italians charging recklessy, shouting 'why why are you charging like this' or something similar. When these things happened in your area, you feel more the stories than reading them in a book