el cid again
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ORIGINAL: Monter_Trismegistos El cid: we know Nemo's "strategic priorities". Could you tell us your strategic priorities? (not only restricted to your theatres, also for those of IJA). Nemo: BTW while I disagree most times with Cid, I must say that about strategic bombing I agree with him. I think the most improtant thing you must divide is supply. And I think El cid is right not permitting you simply waste it on such expensive missions. Nemo, what effects are u expecting from that? You think you could do more than a scratch to allied industry? My strategic priorities are the objectives of the war itself: 1) Establish an autarky and defend it; which means 1A) Sieze the oil (and "rubber" represented as oil in RHS) areas of the SRA, with priority on Borneo, Java and Sumatra; 1B) Sieze the resource areas of the SRA, with priority on Philippines, Malaya, Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Burma and Banka Island; 1C) Sieze resourse areas in other places (e.g. New Caledonia, China) 1D) Defend existing resource and oil areas (Sakhalin, Korea, Manchuria, parts of China, Indochina, Formosa, Japan) 1E) Set up a network of air bases and naval stations that permit effective defense of this core resource area Note this INCLUDES bases in Northern Australia - Darwin in particular - and holding Thursday Island and Port Moresby to make Sea invasion of Darwin from the East impractical 2) Force the USA in general and the USN/USAAF in particular to fight at a distance: 2A) Drive them back to the US West Coast and Panama by taking Hawaii and Alaska; 2B) Cut the SLOC to Australia by taking the South Pacific Bases 2C) Use long range submarines to force escort of convoys to bases remaining on the map 3) Unify the LAND lines of communication from Malaya to Korea - so that China, Manchuria, Korea, Indochina, Thailand, Malaya, Burma (and maybe Eastern SIberia) are a single economic unit - a unit whose resource/supply routes are immune to torpedo and mine attack. 4) Push the Soviets back to Lake Baikal - to end their threat to Manchuria, Korea, Sakhalin Island, the Kurils and Hokkaido. Seems like a full enough plate to me.
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