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What was the significance of the Battle of Monte Cassino?

From: http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:ihqPxpIwUdgJ:www.tundrabooks.com/catalog/display.pperl%3Fisbn%3D9780887767517%26view%3Dtg+What+was+the+%2Bimportance+of+the+battle+of+Monte+Cassino%3F&cd=14&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-aAfter driving Axis armies out of North Africa in May of 1943, Allied commanders turned their attention to an invasion of Italy. They believed that by advancing up the Italian peninsula they could knock Italy out of the war and bring about the downfall of the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. The capture of an Axis capital, Rome, would be of enormous symbolic importance. Hitler would be obliged to send large numbers of German troops to Italy-soldiers he might otherwise have used at the Russian front, or in France, which the Allies were preparing to invade.


Why did some people believe war was necessary?

Well, to support their country/race/culture! Think about it. If all of your friends were on a team against a bunch of people you didn't like you would root for your friends, right? Same thing with people who support war. They want their culture or country to win their rights!Also, some people support wars in certain specific casesas the only real alternative to a more horrible outcome. That is, such people consider the consequences of a war, then the consequences of not going to war, and conclude that, as bad a war is, not going to war is worse."War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."-John Stuart Mill (1806-73)Of course, the trick is deciding when a war is truly necessary, and when all other reasonable avenues have been exhausted (or, when events have proved that waiting any longer will result in more horror than waiting for a diplomatic solution).