Well, that's more or less what I pointed to:
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Originally Posted by Mynydd
The problem, as it appears, was on the one hand that many of them had volunteered without knowing what the Spanish Civil War was about, in the belief that it would be a quick, easy and victorious walk through. On the other hand, the high ranks were a mixture of military and political officers, which surely brought a degree of inefficiency to it. I would point here to the same (and even increased) mistake in the Spanish Republican Army, where academy officers and chiefs were summarily replaced by political commisaires.
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I don't know how a handful of them having been second line actors is significant to it.
From all I know, the Spanish military chiefs --starting at Franco-- were always eager to remove those troops. But they were indeed interested in military technology, especially in planes since the Republican Army had kept them all and the first Spanish squadron of the National Army was a loan of Italy. So it was probably a compromise with Mussolini, who had enviewed a propaganda triumph in Spain.
Likely the same with the German aviation. I don't think that the National Army chiefs enjoyed the idea of foreign intervention in the war.
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