Craig Watson
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Thailand too was reversing colonial diminishment through association with a rising Asian power.
The Thai Japanese relationship was rather unique.
Unlike the Philippines, Malaya, or the Dutch East Indies, Thailand would retain nominal independence.
Timbun Songham remained in power.
Japanese occupation was very light.
Thai forces maintained their own command structure.
Most importantly, Thailand's territorial gains from the Franco Thai War were recognized and secured.
Japan valued Thai cooperation more than conquest.
Burma, controlled by the British, was the next target in Japan's southwestward advance.
Japanese planners had multiple motivations for invading Burma.
First, it was strategically positioned on India's eastern frontier, and Japan harbored ambitions of eventually striking towards India and
And possibly linking up with Germany in the Middle East, or at the very least, destabilizing the British position in South Asia.
Second, Burma was a significant producer of timber and agricultural products.
Third, and perhaps most importantly, the invasion of Burma was meant to cut the Burma Road, the crucial supply line that allowed American aid to reach nationalist China.
The invasion of Burma would begin in late nineteen forty one and would accelerate through early nineteen forty two.
The invasion of the Philippines, which began on December the tenth, just days after Pearl Harbor, served multiple strategic purposes.
Like the assault on Pearl Harbor itself, it was meant to neutralize American military power in the region.
In this case, the American garrison underwon General Douglas MacArthur and the American Colonial Administration there.
But the Philippines were also valuable in their own right.
The island sat directly in the path of what Japan envisioned as its defensive perimeter.
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