Sarah Paine

Okay, Alice, that was Wonderland.

Now we're gonna get to how it works, how other people live, of if you believe these things, how does it help explain what actually happened in World War II?

And I'm gonna start with two sins of omission, the Japanese neglect of paying more careful consideration to logistics, and then another sin of omission is neglect of protecting their sea lines of communication.

And then the last two are about these in-group, out-group divisions and the problems it caused for within each military service, intra-service rivalries, and then between the two services, the Navy and the Army in the war that caused them such difficulties.

Okay, the Japanese, if you start at the beginning of the war, Japan never produced more than 1,113th US steel and coal production.

It never did more than 10% of what US munitions productions were.

I believe if you do the math and take all the battleships and divide people into everything, that each U.S.

soldier had four tons of equipment per, whereas each Japanese soldier had about two pounds of equipment.

Japanese main weapons in this war were the grenade and the bayonet.

Their artillery and machine guns were very obsolete, what they had going in the Pacific War.

And then you flip it around, look at the United States.

The United States had about 18 men in supply services supporting each rifleman at the front.

Other militaries in this period had about an eight to one ratio.

Japan had about a one to one.

So Japan's already suffering food shortages before Pearl Harbor.

And then when you get to the winter of 1942, 43,

the Japanese are having critical shortages of oil, so they no longer can deploy the fleet at will.

That means you forget about convoying anything because you just haven't got the oil to do it.

And yet, when you get to 45, when they're predicting they're going to have absolutely zero aviation fuel and other fuel by the end of 45, you have the government saying, still, we're going to fight on for this honorable whatever it's going to be.

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