Russian Far Eastern armies. Japan could increase those forces appreciably by early September but has no prospect of building up a superiority of force sufficient to give her any reasonable chance of success in Siberia unless Russia had collapsed or withdrawn a substantial part of her forces. (e) The Japanese air forces available for operations against Russia in the Far East and Thailand (after providing the forces necessary for home defence and commitments in China) would be insufficient to give Japan such local air preponderance as would compensate for the relative weakness of her land forces.
- Collection ID
- CAB81
- Conflict
- Second World War
- Countries
- China Indochina Japan Netherlands Russia Siam Thailand United States of America
- Document Reference
- CAB 81/103/72
- Document Types
- Report
- File Reference
- CAB 81/103
- Identifier
- 10.1080/swwf.cab81.0103.072
- Keywords
- Japanese Strategy Threat Of War With Japan Japanese Army Japanese Navy Japanese Air Force Military Strength Predicting Enemy Intentions
- Languages
- English
- Organizations
- Chiefs of Staff Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee
- Pages
- 6
- Persons Discussed
- Victor Cavendish-Bentinck John Godfrey Stephen Shoosmith Geoffrey Vickers
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- Themes
- Military Intelligence
