How could the Allies have done it? It seems underexplored in comparison to what-ifs about the Philippines and Singapore-Malaya holding out longer (or plain holding out), but it seems Burma should be easier to hold on to, further away from Japan's early starting points, right next to British India & attacked months later than the others after the initial surprise wore off.
Related question to tie this in to Malaya threads. Were the forces the Japanese used in Burma the same ones that were used in Malaya, or were they just forces which had just been sitting in occupied Indochina without an offensive role early in the Japanese strike south?
Thoughts?