Скачать или смотреть 8 Gliders, 90 Raiders — The 10-Minute Rescue That Rewrote Italy (Gran Sasso)

A stone hotel on a mountain shelf. Cliffs on three sides. One cable car line as the only clean way up. In 1943, Italy believed that was enough to keep Benito Mussolini out of German hands—and out of history. They were wrong.
This video breaks down the Gran Sasso raid (Operation Eiche) like a battlefield diagram: how German planners exploited terrain, timing, and human hesitation to seize a “secure” prison without a traditional assault. You’ll see why the cable car station mattered as much as the gliders, why shock was the real weapon, and why the extraction was the most fragile moment of the entire mission.
If you want pure strategy—pressure points, decision paralysis, and a mission designed to end before the enemy can even understand it’s happening—this is the case study.

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