Italy goes for Ethiopia in 1911

Could Italy decide to go for Ethiopia a second time as opposed to going after Libya and the Ottoman Empire in 1911

How successfully would an Italian invasion of Ethiopia be in 1911

What would be the costs in both cash and lives compared to the Italian-Turkish war
 
Well, Italy had worked for at least a decade to have the ok from the other powers to go after Lybia, suddenly change objective will be very difficult both in the internal front and on the international one; the only way that i can see happening without a PoD at least a decade earlier is that some big internal problem in Ethiopia expand in the italian colonies and a military solution is approved to at least stabilize the situation (aka getting a better border to defend...as minimal objective and putting a more friendlier goverment in charge as best solution, but both also mean getting the ok of France and UK due to previous treaties).

While i doubt that will be something like the 1936 one and more probably a more limited operation, can go better of OTL lybia due to at least knowing better the situation and having more limited objective.
 
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