wasn't the army that fought in khalkhin gol the most lavishly trained and equipped force the Soviets had at the time all with Zhukov in the lead?
Yes it was. IIRC, they basically stripped their best assets from the rest of the front, banking on the fact that the Japanese wouldn't expand the conflict, which of course they didn'twasn't the army that fought in khalkhin gol the most lavishly trained and equipped force the Soviets had at the time all with Zhukov in the lead?
well go figure they won
Well, I wouldn't exactly rank Japanese army as a strong adversary,
and on the Russian front of WWII, the logistical infrastructure, roads, rivers, canals, railways, etc, was much more developped than it would be in the South Caucasus area.
Tokyo was however not and largely held them back from escalating.
ITTL though, the Kwantung army, absent the campaign in China, was itching for a fight![]()
Starvation.How do you see them actually losing? Especially considering that the German surface fleet has been severely mauled trying to take Norway.