Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-25170451-20150415214156/@comment-3428312-20150426071125

According to Paul Kennedy's The Rise and Fall of Great Powers, in 1937 Japan held roughly 3.5% of the Global warmaking potentional compared to the US holding over 40%. Even further, that is before the slack brought about by the Great Depression was removed. Really, Japan never had a shot at beating America, and their war plans reflected this. This gets overlooked a lot in AH fields, but the Japanese plan basically consisted of inflicting such great losses that the US would seek peace. Japan intended to give back the Philippines and such, in exchange for American acknowledgement of their (Japan's) position in China, Indoneasia, etc...