|
Toast -> RE: Stupid AI and a couple of questions (2/10/2005 8:06:33 PM)
|
Aside from raw numbers of capital ships, though, the Japanese economy was never in any shape to support a massive war effort for any amount of time. THe industry was not up to the standards of the highly industrialized nations of the West at that time, the Army was essentially a light infantry army with no ability to stand up to a modern mechanized army, the merchant shipping fleet was inadequate for supplying the Home Islands with supplies from their far flng possessions, the logistics support for the far flung empire was totally inadequate and they had no way of rectifying any or all of these problems. The war was started on two assumptions: the Soviet Union would be defeated by Germany and the United States would come to the bargaining table after a major defeat. The first assumption was wrong but understandable, many foreign governments were making the same evaluation. The second was a follish notion and one which enough people in high places in Japan knew to be false but which the people in charge choose to ignore. In the final analysis, morality of aggression aside, leaders who lead their nation into a war which they have no possibility of winning are irresponsible in the extreme.
|
|
|
|
