I disagree with two of your assumptions. 1. While Japan was certainly resentful of the Western powers and felt they were not treated fairly...
Takao: I agree with several of your points. But here's where I disagree: 1. The Japanese would be motivated to invade the Soviet Union to get rid...
Iwd: But remember the title of this thread. The UK is neutral. Churchill is not in power. So when Germany invades the USSR it is just the Axis...
The Japanese certainly were motivated to get rid of the Russian/Soviet threat. Consider this: In 1904-1905 Japan and Russia fight a war over...
Iwd, Takao Are you guys arguing Japan shouldn't have invaded the Soviet Union? Or are you arguing that it is inconceivable that Japan would have...
I will propose another timeline scenario: After joining this discussion I went back and looked at Hotta's 1941, According to Hotta on 7/24/1941...
Ok here's my stab at a timeline. April-May 1941 US and Japan are in talks over Japan's involvement in China, and trade matters. The Japanese feint...
Oil was big problem for the Japanese. But in many ways the Japanese decision making defined common sense. One of the big reasons Japan needed oil...
I didn't speculate on how the US might react to a Japanese invasion of the Soviet Union. Quite possibly the embargo would have ensued after such...
In discussing Japanese intentions I think many posters on this thread have overlooked the context in which Japanese decision making occured. Both...
I'm late adding to this thread but I just finished reading "Nomohan, 1939" by Stuart Goldman. The author makes a compelling case that events in...
No doubt the type of German domination being debated today is vastly different from what Hitler envisioned. But in Europe today economic power is...
I wonder if others see an incredible irony in Germany now being the dominant power on the continent? I guess you don't need panzers to establish a...
I listed to this book on audio. It is very entertaining. His thesis seems to be that the Eastern front was a war of attrition that the Germans...
I understand the Russians had a lot of manpower. But most estimates put the Russian population at about 190 million before the war and the German...
I would like to learn more about how the Red Army was able to recover from the devastating losses of 1941 and early 1942 and go on to defeat the...
