我们先从意大利的老账埃塞俄比亚开始算:
化学武器:得大于失的悲剧
意大利确实在埃塞俄比亚使用了化武,墨索里尼1936年运了数百吨芥子气到埃塞俄比亚,尽管当时意军节节胜利,但是为了进度他们还是释放了,但是效果,则是另一回事了,请看随行的美军观察员的报告:
来看看意军放毒气究竟对战局起了多大作用,可以用美帝观察员的话Norman Fiske引证:几乎没有作用。
However, some historians (for example, Anthony Mockler) consider the effect of this gas weapon in battle negligible, like in the report written by the US Major Norman Fiske. Major Fiske thought the Italians were clearly superior and that victory for them was assured no matter what. The use of chemical agents in the war was nothing more than an experiment. He concluded: "From my own observations and from talking with [Italian] junior officers and soldiers I have concluded that gas was not used extensively in the African campaign and that its use had little if any effect on the outcome."
这段话的出处:Clark DK. Effectiveness of Toxic Chemicals in the Italo–Ethiopian War. Bethesda, Md: Operations Research Office; 1959. p20