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Originally posted by Grady Clay
How Japan Should Have Won WWII.
An exercise in speculation.
This stems from the single premise that the Imperial Army and Imperial Navy would have worked to a common purpose rather than at each other’s throats politically. Everything else is a strategy that that could have been pursued.
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Japan never had the slightest chance of winning a war with America, considering that Roosevelt never concentrated more than 15% of the war effort in dealing with the Japanese.
In my opinion, the US government should have concentrated the war effort against Japan, pushing them back out of the Philipines and perhaps assisted in removing them from SE Asia, but no more. As long as Japan was in China, the communists had no chance of coming to power, thus saving the lives of those murdered by the Red Chinese government that did come to power. Yes, the Japanese weren't "nice guys", but compared to the Reds they were paragons of virtue.
While we removed the Japanese from the "American Sphere", the Philipines could have been made self sufficient in government much earlier than what occured, and most of our forces withdrawn from that country.
Meanwhile, the Soviet Russians would have moved into Poland and to the German border. The Germans would have had to withdraw from all or most of France to stop the Soviets at their eastern border, and even then it would have been difficult for them. The Russians had more aircraft, better tanks, and many more arty pieces than did the Germans, who were worn down by the warfare in western Russia and Ukraine. If the accursed Roosevelt had to do something in europe, it would have been to go to France, without the bloody invasion, in late 1944-early 1945 to merely help keep the Germans from returning. There was never a need to invade either Germany or Japan.