I 'll bring again an issue I 've put forward before. Lascaris seemed not to accept my point (obviously he had excellent arguments), but on the other hand, the reason for my point wasn't answered either.Supreme Allied Command Mediterranean (Archibald Wavell)
Yugoslavia - Allied Armies of the Orient (Ptolemaios Sarigiannis)
Rear Areas
- 1st Greek Army (Alexandros Papagos)
- III Airborne brigade
- 3/40 Euzone Regiment
- A Corps (Demetrios Psarros)
- I Infantry Division (Petros Nikolopoulos)
- XVI Infantry division (Pausanias Katsotas)
- 1st Armoured Cavalry Division (Konstantinos Davakis)
- C Corps (Sokratis Demaratos)
- IX Infantry Division (Panagiotis Spiliotopoulos)
- XIII Mountain Division (Thraymboulos Tsakalotos)
- 2nd Armoured Cavalry Division (Christos Avramidis)
- E Corps (Konstantinos Ventiris)
- III Armoured Division (Andreas Kallinskis)
- V Infantry division (Alkiviades Bourdaras)
- Archipelago division (Christodoulos Tsigantes)
- 10th British Army (William Slim)
- 1st Free Polish Corps (Wladislaw Anders)
- 1 Dywizja Grenadierów
- 2 Dywizja Strzelców Pieszych
- 2nd Free Polish Corps (Marian Kukiel)
- 4 Dywizja Piechoty
- 2 Dywizja Pancerna
- New Zealand Corps (Bernard Freyberg)
- 2nd New Zealand Division
- 1st Palestine (Israeli) Division
- 6th Armoured Division
- 3rd Yugoslav Army group (Milorad Petrovic)
- 3rd Army (Jovan Naumovic)
- 5th Infantry Division Šumadijska
- 20th Infantry Division Bregalnička
- 3rd Cavalry Division
- 5th Army (Vladimir Cukavac)
- 3rd Infantry Division Dunavska
- 34th Infantry Division Toplička
- 2nd Cavalry Division
- Adriatic Army Detachment (Charalambos Katsimitros)
- B Corps (Efstathios Liosis)
- IV Infantry Division (Emmanuel Mantakas)
- VI Infantry Division (Leonidas Spaes)
- VIII Infantry Division (Napoleon Zervas)
- 1st Yugoslav Army (Draga Mihailovic)
- 1st Infantry Division Cerska
- 9th Infantry Division Timočka
Kosovo
Greek GHQ Reserve
- 31st Infantry Division Kosovska
- X Armoured Division (Ignatios Kallergis)
Near East and Bulgaria - 18th Allied Army Group (Oliver Leese)
Italy - 15th Army Group (Mark Clark)
- Army of Asia Minor (Georgios Dromazos)
- Z Corps (Basileios Brachnos)
- XII Infantry division (Sotirios Moutousis)
- 11th Archipelago Infantry Regiment
- 12th Archipelago Infantry Regiment
- 16th Infantry Regiment
- 18th Infantry Regiment
- British 9th Army (William Holmes)
- III Corps
- 1st Infantry Division
- 6th Indian Division
- 1st Arab Division (Arab Legion)
- 1st Assyrian Brigade Group
- Peshmerga
- 1st Kurdish Division
- 2nd Kurdish Division
- 3rd Kurdish Division
Italy and Sicily
Allied Frontline Strength Jannuary 1st 1945
- British 8th Army (Oliver Leese)
- V British Corps
- 4th Indian Division
- 46th Infantry Division
- 56th Infantry Division
- 21st Armoured brigade
- 25th Armoured Brigade
- 13th Marine Infantry Regiment (Greek)
- X Corps
- 10th Indian Division
- 5th Infantry Division
- 1st Armoured Division
- 7th Armoured Brigade
- XIII Corps
- 4th Infantry Division
- 8th Indian Division
- 8th Armoured Division
- 9th Armoured brigade
- I South African Corps
- 78th Infantry Division
- 1st South African Armoured Division
- 6th South African Armoured Division
- US 5th Army (Lucian Truscott)
- II Corps
- 34th Infantry Division
- 88th Infantry Division
- 91st Infantry Division
- Força Expedicionária Brasileira
- IV Corps
- 85th Infantry Division
- 92nd Infantry Division
- 1st Irish Infantry Division
- 2nd Irish Infantry Division
- 1st Armored Division
- 10th Mountain Division
- Esercito Italiano di Liberazzione
- Garibaldi combat group
- Folgore combat group
- Legnano combat group
- Taurinense combat group
- Friuli combat group
- French 2nd Army (Antoine Bethouart)
- 1ere Corps Armee Francaise Libre (Edgard de Larminat)
- 3e Division d'Infanterie Algérienne
- 7e Division d'Infanterie Algérienne
- 1re Division Francaise Libre
- 3e Division Blindee
- Greek D Army Corps (Euripidis Bakirtzis)
- II Greek Infantry Division (Georgios Grivas)
- VII Infantry Division (Demetrios Kaslas)
- XI Infantry Division (Demetrios Giantzis)
- Crete Division (Christos Karassos)
Yugoslavia
Greek 366,961 British Empire 89,843 Polish 94,373 Yugoslav 253,206 NOVJ 396,637
Italy
US 187,563 British Empire 588,270 French 100,000 Italian 90,863 Greek 132,459 Irish 41,000 Brazilian 25,700
So:
It seems that Greece's role in the post-world international political and security system is a challenge ITTL.
1.Greece has a HUGE ethical capital, being the only democracy in continental Europe to stop the Axis. And only the second country in the continent, together with the USSR.
2. Greece is one of the major contributors in the war effort, in terms of men and equipment. Much less than the Big Three, but quite on par with France, if not slightly more.
3. While Greece lacks a colonial empire and thus the ability to project power in worldwide scale, she has (or will soon have) the ability to project power in a very sensitive part of the world: the whole Eastern Mediterranean, the Balkans and Anatolia. And if the fate of Constantinople is what it seems, add partial control of the Straits. So, in a sense not very different than China in these terms.
So, yes, giving Greece a permanent seat in the UNSC seems maybe too much. But treating Greece as an ordinary state like Belgium or Egypt, seems not very OK with the 1945 situation.
So, maybe there's a second class members in the UN, or Greece gets some kind of special UN mandate?
*One could point out Australia and Canada of being in the same situation (especially the later). But by 1945 they are not yet exactly nominally independent if I am not mistaken.