64th

2 September 2009 marked the 64th anniversary of the surrender of Japan and the end of the war in the Pacific during WW2. Actually second September was the official signing of the terms of surrender on board the warship USS Missouri. Japan had earlier laid down arms on 15 August when the Japanese Emperor read out the imperial radio message proclaiming surrender to the US which then immediately stopped all military action. Days later, the first US military representatives landed on Japanese soil. Japan had started the conflict in the Pacific by attacking Pearl Harbor, at least that way when you go by US records. At the time of the attack she had a very powerful navy,army and air force. But the Japanese war machine was primarily offensive in nature. It was moulded to strike fast and quick to achieve victory. It was not trained or prepared to win by using the less glamorous method of attrition. This method is totally VITAL and FULLY UNAVOIDABLE when confronting an adversary who is many times your size. Herein lay the cause for Japan's very ignominious defeat in August 1945. Atomic bombed by the US. When your adversary is enormously huge and gigantic, you cannot win by landing just a few sharp blows. Actually, winning might not even be an option at all under certain circumstances. Then, the best you could hope for is to be able to continuously keep him at bay. Japan could not even do that. Germany made exactly that same mistake against the USSR. Through enormous reserves and endless columns of supplies, equipment and reinforcements, the two giants on the WW2 battlefield ground their opponents to a pulp. It was a struggle of sheer attrition and those who were up to it won. And won handsomely.( No one should ever forget this !!! !!!). The mighty Jap navy failed against the US not because of Midway as popular US legends liked to tell, but because the losses they suffered they could not replace at all. Even the USSR suffered huge and terrible material losses initially but they had enormous reserves and so, they won in the end. Their losses were much greater than all the other combatants but they were able to enter Berlin when the dust settled. The Jap military machine was simply not built to fight a prolonged conflict. Never mind fighting a gigantic adversary. Not to mention several more others at the same time as well. The eventual US victory was virtually guaranteed by the fact that the US was able to produce over 40 aircraft for each one built by the Japs by the beginning of 1945. The Jap navy had almost no anti-submarine capability at the onset of the Pacific war. The Jap navy was wholly offensive, not defensive in its outlook. Even when the tide had turned against its surface fleet, it was still totally defenceless against the underwater threat. This predicament was to exact a very heavy toll on Japan's capability. Worse, the air force could not produce the pilots needed to replace those air aces that had been lost in numerous confrontations over land and water in the vastness of the Pacific. Again, like in the case of Germany, Japan inexplicably failed to develop long-range heavy bombers for its military. The long-range heavy bomber was simply vital in wiping out or wearing down the enemy's production

and was has all

regeneration capacity located in his backyard. without it, there no hope of final victory. None at all. (Now, you know why the US B-2s, B-52s and stealth raiders. And station them here and there, over the globe).

Nonetheless, Japan fully deserved to lose. Surrender was the only path for the totally merciless and inhuman Jap soldier. Only the civilians who were killed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and in the numerous firebombing raids deserved any pity. Still, many criminals, like the Emperor were spared their lives. That was totally wrong and unjustified but the US generals especially MacArthur, could not be bothered at all. Japan had good pilots and good aircraft but the US had both also. The US was able to replace all its losses and even multiplied its numbers faster than the Japs could waste them. As time passed by, the US got closer and closer due to its ability to replace all its losses. And in the end, close enough for the B-29 planes to fly over the Jap home islands and ruthlessly decimate its cities and ports. And made it possible for two fateful incidents to take place. On 6 August and again on 9 August, the world's first nuclear weapons were used in anger and the war in the Pacific was over. Japan, like Germany had gambled and lost. The two could not understand at all what was needed to win against giant adversaries like the US and the USSR. Their civilians suffered greatly as a result. But 2 September will always be remembered as the date when the suffering ended for millions and millions of people around the world. But today, all those painful lessons of those years are slowly being forgotten. People now are not able to imagine that in the future, history could just possibly repeat itself. Would people be fully prepared for the next one ? Would they know or even understand what is needed to repel a giant aggressor when the time comes ? The answer is not found here by the way. But it might be discerned by the way they act and behave now. If they are gullible enough to swallow all the deceit now being put out, then you might just get to the correct answer very easily.