How did Japan, a highly modernized and disciplined and cohesive force during the 1930s-40s, stalemate china, a wartorn shithole with warlords all over the place and women and children press ganged into the army and who wielded swords and spears instead of guns?Was Stilwell that good of a general?
>>18506671China is a significantly larger country than Japan with over 7 times as many people.
>>18506671Japanese lines of communication reached deep into Chinese territory where they were sabotaged by CCP guerillas which was the main point of Mao's "people's war" concept. Japan also had other theaters open and couldn't focus only on China. Also China got Lend-Lease
Japs fell hard for the "we just need to win decisive battles and the war is won" meme, and had no plan B for enemy just not surrendering.
>>18506671>china, a country many times larger than japan with an enormously greater populationIt's a credit to how weak China was that Japan, for the first time ever in their entire history, managed to make it that far off of their island.
>>18506671logistic
>>18506712Which way did the lend lease enter Burma from where it was trekked over the mountains into China? Did it come around South Africa or Australia?
>>18506671Japan's army was pretty small before 1937 so they had to de-modernize a bit to get their troop strength up, plus they could hardly concentrate on China because they kept having war scares with the Soviets and then America.
>>18507818>they had to de-modernize a bit to get their troop strength upWhat?
>>18506671If she were to fall off that cliff and there's no liveleak for it to be uploaded to did it really happen?
>>18506671WW2 was basically the story of extremely large countries (USSR, China) realizing they can't lose a war if they simply don't surrender.Germany was never going to get to Vladivostok, Japan was never going to get to Chongqing.
