Sarah Paine

So if you sum it all up, you can go the Japanese use diplomacy to isolate their adversary with this UK alliance.

They use all these psychological operations to promote revolution and desertions.

They're using the military instrument to fund their rearmament.

And then they've got the economics going with all of these loans.

The US military is really partial to a Reagan era acronym of DIME, right?

You can see here that

D is for diplomacy.

I is for information.

M is for military.

E is economics.

Sounds like a bad, I don't know, cheerleading routine.

It's inadequate.

It may be a place to start.

It's cute and all that stuff.

But cute does not mean complete.

Think about it.

One of the most important factors in this war, bar none, certainly for Russia, is railways.

I don't see an R in there or anything.

So by all means, this is better than only looking at military factors, but it's incomplete.

So I've talked about Japan's westernization, and I've talked about its master of grand strategy, and now here's my third reason of how they...