>pre-Guadalcanal: repeatedly defeat enemy forces several times their size>post-Guadalcanal: get slaughtered 10:1 by everyone except the Indians and ChineseWtf happened? It's like someone halved their IQ in August 1942 or something.
>>18108029I don’t know anon, I mean they could’ve held on to Guadalcanal, the American forces weren’t even 2 to 1. I guess they decided to peel back to other islands to lure more of them in or something. They should’ve fought bitterly over Guadalcanal.
>>18108029>pre-Guadalcanal:Numerical superiority vs technologically equal opponents.>post-Guadalcanal:Numerical inferiority vs technologically superior opponent.
Jap mode of warfare are like ants: bold and unrelenting when well-prepared but completely ineffective once things don't go their way.The Japanese success in the early stage was thanks to their merticulous planning, against underpreprared colonial soldiery . But once they achieved all their objectives, there's no more plan and they couldn't adapt to the new circumstances.You see it the navy who stubbornly stick with the prewar plans well after things have changed: forming a defensive ring around the Pacifc, fighting a decisive dreadnought battle and not considering modern technologies. While their adversary the Americans plan as they go and adapted quickly, they island hop instead of trying to siege every island, adopt hit and run tactics with their carriers and went all in on radar
>>18109094Losing your entire empire and get nuked twice because you wanted some shitty micro-islands (that will be under water this century) has to be one of the mosg humiliating low-IQ things ever did.I'm surprise that the entire nation didn't commit seppuku once they got reduced to Shogunate's era borders.If they were smart, now all Asia would be Shinto Japanese.
>>18109416Their main goals was Malaya, French Indochina, Indonesia and Philippines. French Indochina and Malaya were responsible for the majority of global rubber production(still do for natural rubber at least) while Indonesia was back then the biggest oil producer. Philippines were important for strategic reasons(they would make it too easy to intercept these resources). The Japanese strategic planning wasn't particularly complex, Korea and Manchuria were there for coal and steel but once navies became powered with oil that changed and then aircraft became more important so aluminum was needed(iirc from China but maybe also in Indochina? Not sure rn) and since the rubber fields are in-between these resources why not take them as well.
>>18108029The funny thing is that Indians actually did slaughter tens of thousands of Japanese at Imphal. India had a great track record against the Japangs during Operation Ichi-Go. They got redeemed.
>>18109146It's because Japanese people, and east Asians in general, lack the critical thinking skills necessary to adapt to new circumstances. You are supposed to follow your superior's order even if it is absurd and suicidal. To not do so is considered a sin. In the American military, if you are given a plan and the plan is no longer working, you change the plan. That's it.
