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Originally posted by AThousandYoungMidway Island (!) And the Japanese would have lost the war no matter what the results of the early battles were as modern wars are decided by a country's industrial production potential and the US had a huge economic advantage over Japan (this statement applies to conventional wars, not wars of occupation).
I like military history.
How about this: If the U.S had not cracked the Japanese code in WWII and wiped out their carriers at Wake Island (?), how would that have affected WWII?
Originally posted by no1marauderJapan's strategy as I understand it was to hold off the U.S. until Japan had conquered a huge chunk of Asia. Having done so, the Japanese Empire would then have had tremendous production potential, as well as the general naval superiority they lost at Midway.
Midway Island (!) And the Japanese would have lost the war no matter what the results of the early battles were as modern wars are decided by a country's industrial production potential and the US had a huge economic advantage over Japan (this statement applies to conventional wars, not wars of occupation).
I think if nothing else the atomic bomb would have won this war. But do you think that this would have been necessary? Would the U.S. have still taken Japan through economic means?