Italy - HOI4 - Further Redeployment

09 Jan 1942: The Free French are going communist so I decide to counter it.
11 Jan 1942: I order my Airborne Army to Ankara...
...then transfer my Transport and two Fighter Wings there too.
The fighter wings receive an air superiority mission over the Black Sea.
15 Jan 1942: Research on Assembly Line Production has completed.
I choose to research Advanced Oil Processing next.
I realize that it would be faster to air transport the paratroopers to Ankara.
So I order the Airborne Army and the transports to Sarajevo.
16 Jan 1942 and Hong Kong has been captured by the Japanese! Not good for the British.
I move my 'eastern' fleets into the Black Sea.
I also ask Germany for military access. Hitler appears to be in a better mood now...
Soooo, they will accept....
….and Germany did.
I order the Army Riviera as far north as possible.
The Army Mobile is near to Belgrade. It's a long way to its destination.
The 7th Alpine Division is deployed and goes into training. 
20 Jan 1942: Support Weapons III has been researched.

I select Mountain Infantry II next.
More air wings are moved to Turkey
There is a supply shortage for so many aircraft. There is not much that I can do about it.
I reassign air wings in eastern Europe too.
Istanbul receives three air wings.
I decide to recruit 10 coastal divisions in Macedonia.
The conflict in the Alps is finally over.
Democracy is gaining strength in Free France.
I deploy two more fighter wings to Ankara...
...and one more wing to Konya in eastern Turkey. A big supply problem there. I hope the Soviet airfield top-right can alleviate the problem if it is captured.
There is of course no guarantee that there will be a war but because of the distance from Italy the troops need to be in place just in case.

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