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Old November 27, 2017, 03:19 PM   #41
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Strategies, logistics, and tactics had a overwhelming role to play in not just WWII, but all wars for that matter.

The Japanese garrisons facing the US onslaught in the islands of Guadalcanal, Tarawa and Okinawa, for example, were already facing critical shortages of troops and materiel by the time US ships appeared over the horizon. The reason for that is because throughout various periods in 1942, 43 and 44, Communist guerrillas, lone wolf operatives, and peasant resistance organizations in China have launched Tet Offensive-style raids in Japanese occupied enclaves like Shenyang, Shanghai, Nanjing and Guangzhou. Over 20 high ranking commanders and generals have been assassinated in their headquarters or blown up by bombs during this period. And the losses to troops and equipment were far more serious. Over 30,000 Japanese troop deaths in just one year in the Shanghai area resulting from clandestine attacks, night raids, bombings, and subsequent missions into the countryside pursuing fleeing assailants.

Because of this, the Japanese high command have shifted a large number of troops from the Pacific Islands to China to try to quell the insurgency, and by the time the US military began arriving in the Pacific en masse, Japanese troop strength have been whittled away and bled to the point of serious injury. Still very formidable and highly dangerous, but slowly bleeding out from multiple wounds.
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