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pasternakski -> (10/21/2003 2:58:14 AM)
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I didn't say that air power would be "unbalancing." I said it would be a vital part of the "mix."
All you have to do to whet your appetite is to read some of the historical accounts of the desperate days in the Mediterranean theater for both sides. Read, for example, about the brutal experience of the Pedestal convoy attempt at resupplying Malta. Consider what would have happened had Rommel been able to break through and capture Egypt.
As far as the Italians are concerned, they gave the British plenty of trouble. Better command (yours) at Cape Matapan could have swung the balance. Less favorable results from the Taranto raid would have given the Italians a numerical superiority in capital ships in the Mediterranean that the British would have been hard pressed to counter (they had plenty of problems enough as it was).
Add the U-boat threat (take a look sometime at the British naval units sunk in the Med by submarines), and you're ready to roll. I haven't even mentioned radio controlled bombs, Italian frogmen, or any of the other neat stuff...
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