The Axis II personality disorders are often criticized because their comorbidity rates are excessively high, approaching 60 % in some cases, indicating to critics the possibility that these categories of mental illness are too imprecisely distinguished to be usefully valid for diagnostic purposes and, thus, for deciding how treatment resources should be allocated.

As preparations for the offensive commenced, the attack's starting points were positioned on stretches of front to the rear of the German Sixth Army, largely preventing the Germans from reinforcing those sectors quickly where Axis units were too overstretched to occupy effectively.

* Antishipping strikes by Malta-based Royal Air Force Bristol Blenheims and Fleet Air Arm Swordfish against Axis convoys in the Mediterranean in May and June will leave German and Italian forces in North Africa too short of ammunition to conduct a counteroffensive after defeating the British Operation Battleaxe in June.

But by now it was too late, the US First and British Eighth Armies fought relentlessly through the Axis defences.

Because Anaheim Electronics will sell their technology to anyone, Axis ( later named Neo Zeon ) have their hands on the EF design triads, too.

" His noteworthy phrases for Bush are said to include " Axis of Evil ," a phrase adapted from " axis of hatred ," itself suggested by fellow speechwriter David Frum but deemed too mild.

The Mersa defence plan also included an armoured reserve but in its absence Ritchie believed he could organise his infantry to cover the minefields between the defended localities to prevent Axis engineers from having undisturbed access.

While claims of racial bias in the writings of Rudolf Steiner and Alice Bailey were made, Bailey was firmly opposed to the Axis powers ; she believed that Adolf Hitler was possessed by the Dark Forces, and Steiner emphasized racial equality as a principle central to anthroposophical thought and humanity's progress.

Manstein believed that — due to the inability of the Luftwaffe to resupply the Axis in the Stalingrad pocket — it was becoming more important to relieve them " at the earliest possible date ".

Supplies remained a problem because the Axis staff had originally expected a pause of six weeks after the capture of Tobruk.

* April 4 – WWII: Axis forces capture Benghazi.

He was not to move further east than the border with Egypt and was then to remain on the defensive while the Axis concentrated on the capture of Malta ( Operation Herkules ).

Nevertheless, during Operation Crusader Matilda tanks of 1st and 32nd Army Tank Brigades were instrumental in the breakout from Tobruk and the capture of the Axis fortress of Bardia.

The logic behind the plan was it would result in the rapid capture of key Axis airfields which posed a threat to the beachheads and the invasion fleet lying off them.

It would also see the rapid capture of the ports of Catania, Palermo, Syracuse, Licata and Augusta ( being all the main ports on the island, except for Messina ), thus facilitating a rapid Allied build-up as well as denying their use to the Axis.

Because the bridge was the only crossing on the river, and would give the Eighth Army access to the Catania plain, its capture was expected to speed the advance and lead to the eventual defeat of the Axis forces in Sicily.

Years before the collapse of Nazi Germany, Allied troops preferred to use captured Panzerschrecks over Bazookas when engaging Axis armored vehicles, but their limited supply of warheads remained a problem caused by the need to capture those as well.

Initially tasked with conducting raiding operations to disrupt Axis lines of communication in the Mediterranean it was planned that they would take part in operations to capture the Greek island of Rhodes.

During and after World War II, Article 58 was used to imprison some of the returned Soviet prisoners of war on the grounds that their capture and detainment by the Axis Powers during the war was proof that they did not fight to the death and were therefore anti-Soviet.

The Allied invasion of Sicily in July 1943, codenamed Operation Husky, was highly successful, although many of the Axis forces managed to avoid capture and escape to the mainland.

By the time the reinforcements had arrived, the Axis forces had broken through to capture Barga but decisive action by the Indian Division's Major-General Dudley Russell halted further advance and the situation was stabilised and Barga recaptured by the New Year.

The original German invasion plan, which the Axis called Operation Barbarossa, called for the capture of Moscow within four months.

Furthermore, the original Axis plan for the Battle of Gazala in June had been to pause for six weeks on the Egyptian frontier after the capture of Tobruk to regroup and rearm.

The Axis capture of Tobruk echoed the surrender of 80, 000 Commonwealth troops to three Japanese divisions following the fall of Singapore a few months earlier.

Under the command of Erich von Manstein, the Axis forces were unable to capture Sevastopol in the first stage of operations.

There are also optional game variants to cover the results of the off-map attempt to capture Malta ( decided by a single die roll, with extra Axis reinforcements if the attack succeeds, but fewer if it fails ) and the arrival of additional Allied units beyond the historical deployment ( e. g. US reinforcements-in reality US forces fought in Tunisia but not in the Desert campaign ).

* 30 January: Axis forces capture Faïd pass in central Tunisia

Rescuing such a large number of troops from the threat of capture on Sicily represented a major success for the Axis.

Once the Axis powers were cleared from the Mediterranean Sea in 1943-with the Allied capture of Tunisia, Sicily, and southern Italy-cargo convoys were able to pass through the Mediterranean, the Suez Canal, and the Red Sea to Iran for shipment to the USSR.

Its purpose was to determine how far the Axis had progressed toward developing nuclear weapons, and to secure atomic material and capture the scientists working on the Nazi atomic project.

Britain suffers a similar penalty for loss of Gibraltar and / or Suez, but surrenders if the Axis capture London.

The battle halted the second ( and final ) advance by the Axis forces into Egypt, El Alamein being only from Alexandria.

* 1942 – World War II: Allied forces successfully halt the final Axis advance into Egypt.

Shortly after Italy entered the war, a number of Libyan leaders living in exile in Egypt called on their compatriots to organise themselves into military units and join the British in the war against the Axis powers.

* 1942 – World War II: Second Battle of El Alamein: – At El Alamein in northern Egypt, the British Eighth Army under Field Marshal Montgomery begins a critical offensive to expel the Axis armies from Egypt.

During the war, Nasser and Sadat established contact with agents of the Axis powers, in particular a group of Italians, and planned a coup to coincide with an Italian offensive that would expel the British forces from Egypt.

As Egypt remained officially neutral until long after the Axis defeat at the Battle of el-Alamein, the Egyptian military did not participate in the Second World War.

The Axis foothold in North Africa would remain a potential threat to Egypt and the Suez Canal so long as this situation continued.

Through combined air and sea landings, the Axis powers hoped to eliminate Malta as a British air and naval base and secure an uninterrupted flow of supplies across the Mediterranean Sea to their forces fighting in Libya and Egypt.

During early 1942 the Axis forces advanced steadily through north west Egypt.

Each time the Axis forces pushed the Allied forces back to Egypt, but both times the Allies retaliated and regained the ground lost.

On the second ( and final ) Axis push, the Allies were driven far into Egypt ; however, the Allies recovered at El Alamein and then managed to drive the Axis forces west and completely out of Libya.

From 1942, U. S. forces assisted the British Commonwealth in fighting Axis forces in Egypt and Libya.

The U. S. Army's Egypt – Libya Campaign ended on 12 February 1943, when the Allied forces finally succeeded in driving all Axis forces out of Libya.

Conceived by the commander-in-chief of the British Middle East Command, General Archibald Wavell, Brevity was intended to be a rapid blow against weak Axis front-line forces in the Sollum – Capuzzo – Bardia area of the border between Egypt and Libya.

Bible prophecy shows the Roman Axis forces will take Egypt, Suez, Palestine, — even Gibraltar.

The result of this was that Axis air forces which had been allocated to take part in an attack on Malta had to join the improvised pursuit into Egypt.

* Army of the Nile ( 1941 )-dedicated to General Wavell for halting the advance of the Axis Powers in Egypt

Mackey had enlisted in the Australian Army and served in North Africa in 1940-42, including at the climatic Battle of El Alamein at which the Axis armies under the German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel were permanently expelled from Egypt.

If the anticipated attack came through Turkey or Lebanon, then not only could the Axis Powers threaten British controlled Egypt and the strategically important Suez Canal via an advance through Palestine and the Sinai Peninsula, it would also allow the Germans an alternative route to attack the Soviet Union from Southwest Asia north through the USSR's southern frontiers.

After the fall of France and before United States land forces entered the war in Operation Torch, the north African campaign in the Sahara desert and Mediterranean coastal plains of Libya and western Egypt was the major land front between Western Allied and Axis forces.

After a period when both sides were rebuilding their strength, the Axis forces defeated the Allies in May 1942 at the Battle of Gazala, capturing Tobruk, and drove them back to past the border of Egypt.