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Outside of losing a few islands, did the IJA lose any significant territory until 1944? The IJA's positions in Korea, China, FIC, Malaya, Burma, Formosa, Philippines and DEI were secure nearly to the end.Yes or no
Did Japanese have more territory 31st December 1942 than 31st December 1941?
If the answer is yes then that's called a win.
Now compare 31st December 1945?
Are Japan winning more or less than 31st December 1942?
So the Japanese Empire is in good shape 31st December 1942.
Yes or no
Did Japanese have more territory 31st December 1942 than 31st December 1941?
If the answer is yes then that's called a win.
Which is just plainly wrong on Churchill's part.Churchill said the fall of Singapore as "the worst disaster and largest capitulation in British history."
I am a generous god.The Basket does bring up some good points. I got to give you that.
A weak point?
Churchill said the fall of Singapore as "the worst disaster and largest capitulation in British history."
So doesn't sound like a weak point to me cos I got Winnie giving the love.
If you ain't willing to lose ships and lots of them then maybe this war thing isn't for you.
Maybe things were going wrong but 1942 was a good year to be a Japanese Imperial and no mistake.
Japan lost Guadalcanal but America lost the Philippines. The fact that Japan even got to Australia and Guadalcanal is a sign of overwinning.
Hubris is never good
Which is just plainly wrong on Churchill's part.
With its capitulation at the Siege of Yorktown (1781), Britain lost the entirety of its American colonies outside of what would become Canada, never regaining them.
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I suspect Churchill's obsession and love for all things American clouded his view.
Then Churchill, if being honest needs to own his biggest failure, the Gallipoli campaign, where 160,000 British Empire troops were killed or wounded and four RN battleships sunk in one of Churchill's worst ill thought out plans, having massive ramifications to both the Middle East and Britain's relationship with its Dominions.I suspect that Churchill was considering the raw numbers lost at Singapore. You're right that Yorktown carried much larger ramifications than Singapore.
Then Churchill, if being honest needs to own his biggest failure, the Gallipoli campaign, where 160,000 British Empire troops were killed or wounded and four RN battleships sunk in one of Churchill's worst ill thought out plans, having massive ramifications to both the Middle East and Britain's relationship with its Dominions.
One need only watch Mel Gibson in the movie Gallipoli to understand why Australians, after their boys, this time at Singapore once again abandoned by Winston why Aussies said f#ck you to Britain postwar. Once HM expires I expect Oz to break that historic tie. The anger of Gallipoli and Singapore runs deep.
Put all five Australian combat divisions into Malaya along with effective leadership in early 1941 and evacuating Singapore might not be necessary.Evacuating the Singapore force to Australia and/or eastern India would -- after destroying the infrastructure of the harbor-- would probably have been smart money.
Put all five Australian combat divisions into Malaya along with effective leadership in early 1941 and evacuating Singapore might not be necessary.
Attu and Kiska?This isn't "hubris" on my part, and I'd appreciate it if you wouldn't impute feelings to me I don't hold. Thanks in advance.
My point is that by the end of 1942, the fortunes of war, while generous to the Japanese in Yamamoto's "six months or a year", by the time that year had run out, the Japanese had lost the initiative, had lost six irreplaceable capital ships, lost irreplaceable pilots, and were firmly on the defensive with very little hope of regaining the initiative. So they owned more territory by June 42 ... so what? That was area they had to defend, or lose, and that process started over the summer, first along the Kokoda, then in the Solomons.
Checked at Coral Sea.
Defeated heartily at Midway, with heavy losses.
Defeated along the Kokoda, and at Guadalcanal, by Dec 1942, again with heavy losses.
I'll ask you again: What successful campaign did they undertake in the second half of 1942 in the Pacific? The tide had turned in June, as it was going to inevitably; the turning tide coming at that time surprised both Americans and Japanese, but that doesn't mean that it did not happen. By the end of 1942, the Japanese were in stasis in most places, and defeated in two. All those grand victories were macht nicht by the end of the year.
Attu and Kiska?