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Prior to World War II, the Japanese needed the resources in the Phillippines, and this was one of the major drivers for the attack on the US. Fighting a large-scale multiple-front war was not logistically feasible for the Japanese military. Could they have fought a more limited war for the Phillippines? Would the US have been nearly as motivated/ focused on a colony that they were never going to keep over the long term? What would this mean for the Dutch East Indies and other areas that the Japanese coveted?
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