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Japanese Overall Strategy and its Effects on Japanese Strategy in South East Asia Note by Sec. (I.D. 62)

1 May 1945

Events have moved much more quickly than the Japanese had anticipated and responsible opinion in Japan appreciates that defeat has become a matter of time and degree. Japan is now strictly on the defensive, awaiting invasion of her home islands. She has already thinned out on the left and left centre of her perimeter, but still covers certain main approaches to the inner zone, notably the MALACCA and the SUNDA Straits. The problem that faces her now is how best to dispose for the defence of Japan proper, North China and MANCHURIA, the forces still available in the outer zone, and to what extent, by imposing delay on the Allies in their advance towards the inner zone, she can influence, by military and/or political means, the degree of her ultimate defeat.
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Collection ID
CAB81
Conflict
Second World War
Countries
Brunei Burma China Formosa Germany Great Britain Guinea India Japan Korea Malaya Nazi Germany Philippines Russia Siam Singapore
Document Reference
CAB 81/129/32
Document Types
Memorandum Report
File Reference
CAB 81/129
Identifier
10.1080/swwf.cab81.0129.032
Keywords
Japanese Strategy Predicting Enemy Intentions Assessing Enemy Strength Pacific War Resources Communications Military Operations Japanese Navy Japanese Air Force Defence Invasion Preparations Japanese Army Shipping Losses Economy Japanese Government Political Intelligence Politics Military Strength Military Dispositions Operations Planning Naval Bases Bombing Effects Of Bombing Air Raids Industry Airfields Home Front Morale Collapse Of Nazi Germany Soviet-japanese Relations Threat Of War With The Ussr Casualties Troop Movements Manpower Warships Naval Strength Air Power Factories Industrial Intelligence Surrender
Languages
English
Organizations
Chiefs of Staff Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee
Pages
17
Persons Discussed
Edward King-Salter
Published in
United Kingdom
Series
War Cabinet Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee Memoranda. May - July 1945. Papers Numbers. JIC 151-215. Volume XXXIX
Themes
Military Intelligence

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