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# The Japanese roused a 'sleeping giant'
Some of your dad's admirals were awesome, defeating the Japanese was no easy task; thank fuck they failed to see the importance of recycling their pilot's expertise through training

it more or less lost them the war

with a few other factors

(, Wed 24 Dec 2008, 0:45, archived)
# there was a lot of luck (and a few good leaders to over-rule the dead weight at the top)
and having un-bombed manufacturing sites for ships, tanks and all the rest, plus lots of oil... could have been a lot worse if Japan or Germany could have made effective strikes on the US.
(, Wed 24 Dec 2008, 0:55, archived)