Strafexpedition

Battle of Asiago Strafexpedition
Part of the Italian Front (First World War)
The remaining alpine vegetation after the attack on Asiago.
Date 15 May – 10 June 1916 Location Asiago plateau, Veneto, Italy Result Italian defensive victory
Belligerents
Kingdom of Italy	Austria-Hungary
Commanders and leaders
Luigi Cadorna Guglielmo Pecori Giraldi (replaced Roberto Brusati) Pietro Frugoni	Conrad von Hötzendorf Archduke Eugen of Austria Viktor Dankl von Krasnik Hermann Kövess
Units involved
First Army Fifth Army	11th Army 3rd Army
Strength
172 battalions 850 guns	300 battalions 2,000 guns
Casualties and losses
140,000 casualties: 12,000 dead 80,000 wounded 50,000 taken prisoner	100,000 casualties: 15,000 dead 75,000 wounded 15,000 missing and taken prisoner

Luigi Cadorna
Guglielmo Pecori Giraldi

The Battle of Asiago (Battle of the Plateaux) or the Trentino Offensive (in Italian: Battaglia degli Altipiani), nicknamed Strafexpedition ("Punitive expedition") by the Austrians, was a counteroffensive launched by the Austro-Hungarians on the Italian Front on May 15, 1916, during World War I. It was an unexpected attack that took place near Asiago in the province of Vicenza (now in northeast Italy, then on the Italian side of the border between the Kingdom of Italy and Austria-Hungary) after the Fifth Battle of the Isonzo (March 1916). Commemorating this battle and the soldiers killed in World War I is the Asiago War Memorial.

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