One of his officers wrote: "We're trying to fight this... as though it were a colonial war... this is a European war... fought with European weapons against a European enemy.
Накануне Второй мировой войны были приняты на вооружение новые типы бронетехники: легкие танки L6/40; средние (по итальянской классификации) M11/39; бронеавтомобили AB40/41.