Talk:Battle of the Piave River
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[edit] This battle caused the disintegration of the Austrian Army?
All nationalistic propoganda aside lets just look at the numbers. On the Eastern Front the Austrians suffered millions of casualties, here they suffer 100,000 and this breaks their back ? Lets be a bit more conservative with the words used. Maybe this broke the back of the Austrian Army on the Italian front. But the million men they lost in 1916 during the Brusilov offensive was alot more dameging.
[edit] French and British Divisions
The number of British and French divisions is wrong. There were only five left. The other six were withdrawn in March 1918 when a German offensive in France started. The 11 divisions had been sent to Italy in November 1917 (after Caporetto, October 24) and started to support the Italians at the end of November (the French at the beginning of December). As far as the discussion about nationalism and "broken backs" is concerned, it should be noted, that by June 1918 the war against Russia had already been over ("Red" October 1917) and that therefore the Austrians could concentrate all their forces on the italian front where the Italians in November 1917 (Caporetto) had lost an enormous amount of men and material. In June 1918 Austria was looking for a decisive victory because her exhausted armies were already fainting. This last and massive effort failed. That's why it was the beginning of the end for Austria.
