Reddit mentions of Winged dagger

So building a huge Triumphant arch with an inscription, written in Latin hailing the city of Rome in the middle of the desert has nothing to do with Mussolini trying to reboot the Roman Empire and everything to do with a road connecting two parts of Libya?

The semantics of what you call the arch are irrelevant, it is clearly a reference to the Triumphant arches of ancient Rome, even if the Wikipedia article doesn't state that explicitly it doesn't mean that it's not the case. Calling it a "Triumphant Arch" or a "Victory Arch" is acceptable in my opinion and describes both the intention and the construction sincerely in the context of Fascist Italy and Italian Colonialism in the 20th Century.

I actually learned the arch existed from reading about it in these two books:

Mussolini's Italy: Life Under the Facist Dictatorship by R J B Bosworth

Winged Dagger by Roy Farran

If you care about "learning things yourself" give those books a read, they're worth it. The Wikipedia article is practically a stub, and I honestly didn't read it past a glance before I posted this link as i'd read about it in the books above and thought it was interesting, you can't post a link to a page in a book. Your comment adds nothing to the discussion, i'm here to talk about history not the decline and fall of things I learned today or the lacklustre information of obscure subjects on wikipedia. if you have anything to add that relates to the subject then please post it.