Anglo-Italian Alliance: What Would They Do?

How exactly would an Anglo-Italian alliance work in a world with 1930s-1940s technology levels? Would they have any chance of conquering France or would they have to go on the defensive and try to conquer colonies?
 
How exactly would an Anglo-Italian alliance work in a world with 1930s-1940s technology levels? Would they have any chance of conquering France or would they have to go on the defensive and try to conquer colonies?

Why is a twentieth century alliance involving Britain going on a conquering spree?:confused:
 
Fascists maybe? Or perhaps feeling that a good offense is the best defense?

Beedok

Fully agree with Wendell here. You need to define what the nature of both states are along with their neighbours. For instance if somehow something like fascism arose in both states then Britain is very likely to have far more important and difficult problems than attacking France for some reason. [Defecting dominions, far more difficult to control empire, even more fucked up economy]. Unless you mean France rather than Italy goes fascist? In which case it's more likely to be France and Germany clashing.

Steve
 

Germaniac

Donor
First what is the strategic value of that alliance. A German Italian alliance has far more value than Anglo Italian, much like France and Russia.
 

Cook

Banned
For Italy an alliance with the other major Mediterranean power would have been very useful, avoiding the wasted recourses and efforts that confrontation and competition would have produced; it would have resulted in agreed spheres of influence in the Mediterranean and East Africa so were so loved in Imperial gentleman’s drinking clubs. That the Italian economy relied heavily on coal, imported British coal, and the Italian people were Anglophiles in the ‘20s and ‘30s are additional factors that would have made such an alliance a natural continuation of the Great War alliance had not Mussolini’s invasion of Abyssinia put an end to all efforts in that direction.

Such an alliance would only have been with French agreement, not otherwise.
 
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