Editing Fascist Italy (section)

==Things Italy was ACTUALLY Good at==
Now for some faint praise to go along with the damnation...
* Italian paratroopers performed amazingly in most battles they took part in, and were famously the last Axis force to resist the Allies during the breaking of the Tobruk siege.
* Italian Bersaglieri also get notice. They also performed well in most battles, and some US Rangers were fully convinced that they were the best Italy had to offer. While the Germans sat over there with ok tanks and stupid good LMGs, the Bersaglieri were kicking ass and taking names with the shittiest LMG in the war and "tanks". 
* Italian submachine guns, especially from the Beretta company. In fact they were so good that not only were they prime targets for trophies, but the government decided to try and save some resources by asking the company to make their models WORSE. 
* Manned torpedoes (midget submarines used to plant mines directly on ships). They were actually so successful plans were being written up to sneak a team through the Atlantic and launch on attack on New York harbor, but was called off with the invasion of Italy. Overall the Regia Marina had good ships (better than Germany) but no radar and inflexible, risk-adverse leadership. Largely because they did not need to rebuild from scratch and they had a longer time to get it ready.
* Air force (post 1943). Yes, despite little support from Germany and essentially having to fend of the Allied air forces by themselves, not only did they hold them off but they actually shot down more planes than the Germans. Italian aviation engineering was pretty good; Macchi and Savoia had two Schneider trophies each, and before the war Italy was a big player in seaplanes and passenger planes.  They also really had a thing for trimotor designs (SM.79, Z.506).  Their main problem was the intertwining of industry and government, with firms using political jockeying to advance their own interests and harm their opponents, along with boneheaded incompetence from the government itself.
* Armored Cars. Oddly enough with their reputation in regards to tanks, Italian armored cars were pretty top notch, even after the 1943 split Germany elected to spend resources to continue the Italian development program. 
* Its soldiers. Yes, really. Once they joined the Allies where they could actually fight for something while equipped with actual guns and bullets, they performed so well they shocked the Allied forces they fought beside. The Allies originally wanted nothing to do with the anti-fascist forces but after their first battle they were so impressed they did a complete 180 on the decision. Even before that, the Italian divisions that fought in North Africa impressed the Germans with their fighting spirit and aggression; they just tend to be left out of the narrative because everyone has a boner for Rommel and the Afrika Korps. Speaking of Rommel, he personally considered the Italians under his command superior to his own Afrika Korps... at the soldier and low ranking officer level. It was like everyone going above lieutenant was legally obligated to get hit with a stupid stick.
* Recycling! Resources were cut in every place they could be, and some weapons were even modified to catch ejected shells so they could be sent back to the factory.

And finally as mentioned previously Italian ships would have been good... but Supermarina thought this whole radar thing was a useless fad. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cape_Matapan That was a REALLY bad call.] The sheer curbstomp of that one battle deserves a repetition of this point.