Board Thread:Timeline Discussions/@comment-5709784-20130513183539/@comment-5169980-20140530214557

For the Japanese military leader, determination of the soldiers and the fact that the Japanese was the chosen people was enough to achieve victory. I also think that many young officers were for the modernization of the army while the older officer were supporting the Japanese spirit over technologies.

But whatever the mentality adopted, the Japanese supply line was overextend and holding South East Asia was essential to have the ressource necessary for the war effort, even there, many ships were sunk with the said ressource.