The Battle of Asiago or Battle of the Plateaux (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 part of Austria-Hungary) after the Fifth Battle of the Isonzo (March 1916).
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