6. Her shipping limitations, though not sufficient seriously to hamper her present military operations, are preventing her from exploiting her conquests to the full and from expanding to the full her own industrial productive capacity. The need to conserve shipping for these important purposes will act as a further deterrent against undertaking seaborne operations, not essential to her strategic security, in areas in which she cannot freely operate. 7. In India, Japan's principal aim is to neutralize it as a base for Allied counter-attack.