Board Thread:Timeline Discussions/@comment-7559950-20130911012534/@comment-32656-20130913121413

The general consensus at the time, imo, was that it would be a bad idea do to it. You can chalk the attempts solely up to crazy far-right nationalists.

In a lot of ways, the Axis high command ignored good intel or used some that was so bad it is just insane. Take the Iraq intel, and quintuple that. That bad.

For instance, the Nazi estimate of Soviet troop numbers was so far off that it is actually disturbing to read about. Each time they surrounded and destroyed a large pocket of Soviet troops they thought that they had destroyed the entire army. The order of magnitude that they were off by is simply staggering.

For the Japanese, even their commander knew it would fail. But he was forced into it anyways.