Japan Victory???

demonzx · 01-03-2006, 05:56 PM

Could Japan have won against the USA??? If Japan would have bombed the vital oil supplies at Pearl Harbor, that would have made the fleet imobile for a much longer time, and then they could have prepaired to take the Hawiian Islands possibly? I don't think Japan could have had the capabilities to invade US territory, but what do you think? How could Japan have prevailed over the USA???

angie999 · 01-03-2006, 08:26 PM

I do not see that the total defeat of the USA by Japan was either possible or one of their war aims. They were seeking to expand their overseas possessions, mainly at the expense of the British and Dutch empires (plus the Phillipines, which the USA did not claim was a colony), while persuading the USA to reach a settlement.

I don't think they ever had a hope of achieving this, but then I find high Japanese politics of the 1930s and wartime years make little sense anyway.

morse1001 · 01-03-2006, 08:40 PM

There was no way that Japan could defeat Anerica. Yamamoto got it right when he said that they had awken a sleeping Giant.

Gnomey · 01-03-2006, 09:24 PM

Agreed there was no way that Japan could successfully defeat the USA. Yamamoto predicted this and gave Japan 6 months superiority before the Americans started to gain the upperhand which wasn't far off.

01-03-2006, 05:56 PM	#1 (permalink)
demonzx Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Festus, Missouri Posts: 3	Japan Victory??? Could Japan have won against the USA??? If Japan would have bombed the vital oil supplies at Pearl Harbor, that would have made the fleet imobile for a much longer time, and then they could have prepaired to take the Hawiian Islands possibly? I don't think Japan could have had the capabilities to invade US territory, but what do you think? How could Japan have prevailed over the USA??? __________________ "Lucky for governments, people don't think." -Adolf Hitler "Any society willing to give up a little liberty for a little security, will deserve neither and loose both." -Benjamin Franklin

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angie999 Very Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: near Bristol, UK Posts: 1,551	I do not see that the total defeat of the USA by Japan was either possible or one of their war aims. They were seeking to expand their overseas possessions, mainly at the expense of the British and Dutch empires (plus the Phillipines, which the USA did not claim was a colony), while persuading the USA to reach a settlement. I don't think they ever had a hope of achieving this, but then I find high Japanese politics of the 1930s and wartime years make little sense anyway. __________________ Angie "History is lived forward but it is written in retrospect. We know the end before we consider the beginning and we can never wholly recapture what it was like to know the beginning only." C V Wedgewood

01-03-2006, 09:24 PM	#4 (permalink)
Gnomey Per Ardua Ad Astra Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Royal Deeside/St Andrews, Scotland, UK Posts: 2,960	Agreed there was no way that Japan could successfully defeat the USA. Yamamoto predicted this and gave Japan 6 months superiority before the Americans started to gain the upperhand which wasn't far off. __________________ "Never in the field of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few" Sir Winston Chuchill, Summer 1940 "To him the people of Britain and the free world owe largely the way of life they enjoy today" Ensciption on Hugh Dowding's (AOC Fighter Command 1936-1940) Statue in London Aircraft of World War 2 Forum - A Warbird Forum

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morse1001 Very Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Wishaw, Lanarkshire, Scotland Posts: 4,585	There was no way that Japan could defeat Anerica. Yamamoto got it right when he said that they had awken a sleeping Giant.

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