Search isn't working for me, so apologies if I missed a recent thread/TL discussing this.
So, after making a few attempts at winning World War II as Italy, and generally managing to do quite a bit better than OTL Italy, my curiosity on the matter has been roused. So, how could Italy go from being a militarily unimpressive member of the Axis in constant need of German support to a significant military force that doesn't need German help in the Balkans or North Africa? Let's try to limit PoDs to after Mussolini's takeover, so that butterflies will be limited enough to keep the start of World War II more-or-less as per OTL.