How about if we change the scenario, because I also don't think any conditional surrender was possible after Potsdam Declaration.
What if a completely new government rule Japan and more pragmatic militarist faction control the Army and Navy.
After the defeat in the Leyte Gulf and the beginning...
Allied choose the Island Hopping strategy because their final objective is to reach the Japanese Home island, bomb it to oblivion, and force Imperial Japan to capitulate. So they didn't have to take and hold much of territory. They just need bases for securing the supply route from Mainland USA...
Forgive if I'm wrong...cause I'm not a historian.
The IJN already evacuate the Trukk harbour of any major capital ships and a number of aircrafts before the Operation started because they already suspect a major raid were coming. When USN hit Trukk, most ships still in the area were merchant...
What if Imperial Japanese Navy decide to make a stand in Marshal Island when Operation Hailstone (the raid of Trukk Harbour in February 1944) commenced?
Will the IJN able to defeat the raiding forces? Can this battle intensified into a decisive battle like OTL Battle of Philippine Seas?
Agreed...
Let say after their Carrier Forces decimated, Ozawa deployed all his remaining assets (battleship, cruisers, destroyer, et all) against the American fleet and got wiped out to the very last ship, at very least they might sunk several American ships.
(I know this move is beyond...
Not this kind of scenario already discussed in CalBear's AngloAmerican-Nazi War?
IIRC Japan's inland sea trade routes was completely blockaded, their towns and cities firebombed, their farms gassed with defoliant, all modern public infrastructure destroyed from air and sea, and all...
If current People Republic of China collapse for some imaginary reasons, and then later on multiple new successor states rise from the chaos (in short China follow the path taken Yugoslavia). What those new states will be?
Will it be divided by ethnic/language/region/religion?
I only can...
What if there is no Central Pacific Offensive
Sorry a bit off topic, but I don't want to make a new thread.
What if there is no Central Pacific Offensive, but whole effort focused solely on South West Pacific route?
Will this make Allied victory achieved sooner because of the seer amount...
Mahan Doctrine is a solid strategy.
But the only way Japan can win with it, is that USN follow all Japanese war plan to the letter :D
And its need all combined stupidity in every single US Navy personnel to do that;)
Forgive my ignorance, but is this scenario plausible? I can imagine that Hitler and Nazi government fall to a military coup, but I can't fathom that Germany simply surrender while the war situation still not yet hopeless.
As far that I know, Germany situation in 1943 is not the same like in...
A Imperial Japan that didn't launch the Sino-Japanese War will be an entirely different from the OTL Imperial Japan. Also, a Republic of China that not devastated by Sino-Japanese War simply will not be a bigger Taiwan.
What happen next will be mostly depends on the POD itself...
Why in this...