Including a triumvirate of battles launched after the Italians successful seizure of Gorizia in August 1916 to extend their bridgehead to the left of the town, it ended in further failure for the Italian Chief of Staff Luigi Cadorna. Now I agree that Germany might deploy troops from elsewhere (mostly. Even if the Italians break through in the first week, that's too late to stop the German advance on Riga, and too late to prevent Kornilov's botched coup.

The Italian Army had enjoyed a number of successes around the Isonzo area of north Italy. The Eleventh Battle on the Isonzo happens almost at the same time as the Kornilov coup and the Fall of Riga. The Italian Army suffered major losses at Caporetto in terms of prisoners taken and equipment lost. By war’s end, Italy had suffered some 600,000 casualties-fully half of those came in the Isonzo region. Some historians have assigned distinct names to a couple of the Isonzo struggles, most notably at Caporetto in October 1917, which would otherwise form the Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo. The Ninth Battle of the Isonzo was an Italian offensive against Austria-Hungary in the course World War I. The Battle of Caporetto was one of the more decisive battles of World War One. The resulting offensive, the Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo, or the Battle of Caporetto, was a decisive victory for the Central Powers, and a crushing blow for the Italian forces-one that resulted in Cadorna’s dismissal and a comprehensive change in strategy. Although the Italians made a fifth and final attack of the year, the Ninth Battle of the Isonzo, on November 1, stalemate in the region continued until the following October, when Austria-Hungary called on its ally, Germany, for reinforcements in the region. In the climactic Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo, Italy suffered 305,000 casualties to Austria-Hungarys 70,000. As in the previous month, the short, concentrated burst of fighting resulted in heavy Italian casualties, prompting Cadorna to call the offensive off pending his army’s recuperation. Italy went on to lose the Isonzo Campaign. The Eighth Battle of the Isonzo, fought from October 10-12, 1916, was a continuation of these Italian attempts to extend their positions at Gorizia.

In mid-September, the Italians launched the seventh of the Isonzo battles they were quickly pushed back by Austro-Hungarian forces and suffered heavy casualties. After the Italians established positions at Gorizia, including a long-desired bridgehead across the river in a successful offensive in the Sixth Battle of Isonzo in August 1916, Luigi Cadorna, chief of staff of the Italian army, was determined to extend his gains. The mountainous terrain around the Isonzo, at the border between Italy and Austria-Hungary, despite being ill-suited to offensive operations, saw no fewer than 12 battles over the course of World War I, beginning in the late spring of 1915 after the entry of Italy into the war on the side of the Allied powers.

Who won the battle of isonzo