Compared to the Franco-German border, where a gun or cannon was fired only once in a while, the Franco-Italian border was clearly much livelier at this moment.
France and Italy had deployed large numbers of troops along their respective borders, initiating a one-on-one match between France and Italy.
Clearly, France still held a considerable advantage in its war against Italy.
West of the border between France and Italy lay France's vast territory. Large numbers of French troops were continuously massing along the southern border, which was not good news for Italy.
Italy, on the other hand, was shaped more like a T, with two islands separated from the mainland by the sea: Sardinia and Sicily.
This made it difficult for Italy to deploy a large army along its northwestern border, while it also had to guard against possible surprise attacks by the French at any moment.
After all, French-controlled Corsica was only a little over two hundred kilometers from Rome. If the French deployed a large air force on Corsica, their planes could attack Rome at any time—a sight the Italians were unwilling to see.
Unlike Italy, France's capital, Paris, lay inland. An air raid on Paris from any direction would have to cross hundreds of kilometers of French territory.
As long as those areas of French territory had not fallen, the French could rely on radar systems in every direction to detect air raids and prepare in advance.
Italy, however, could not. Rome was a coastal city, and Italy had no way to deploy large numbers of radar systems at sea to detect possible French attacks.
Moreover, with the British joining the war, the Italian Navy remained at a disadvantage in the Mediterranean Sea. For a country whose entire coastline lay along the Mediterranean, this was a heavy blow.