nbcman
Donor
I think you are wrong. In Korea, the US was willing to accept a stalemate and in Vietnam a defeat. Granted there are other reasons, but in neither case did the NVA or the NKPA attack the US treacherously.
The problem is the Japanese couldn't create a condition where they could stalemate the US let alone defeat them. The force imbalance was too great to ever have 3 or 4 Tarawa situations and the US military had improved their tactics in the next invasion at Kwajalein. Japan was doomed once they set on the path of war against the USA.
EDIT: See Combined Fleet for more information on the 'Grim Economic Realities'.
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