The Co-Prosperity Sphere

[skarosianlifeform]

Criminal but efficient. On top of that, it might push Allied troops to become more brutal and to dehumanize more their enemies. Especially as the Japanese will also start to send suicide bombers as well as old, outdated airplanes as kamikazes against Allied ground forces.
Even if the Allied commanders try to avoid it, inevitably Allied soldiers who face this will lash out at defenceless civilians.

And the Allies becoming more brutal would, in turn, validate Japanese propaganda.

 

[CountofDooku]

Criminal but efficient. On top of that, it might push Allied troops to become more brutal and to dehumanize more their enemies. Especially as the Japanese will also start to send suicide bombers as well as old, outdated airplanes as kamikazes against Allied ground forces.
Even if the Allied commanders try to avoid it, inevitably Allied soldiers who face this will lash out at defenceless civilians.

And the Allies becoming more brutal would, in turn, validate Japanese propaganda.

Especially if Japanese infantry suicide charges with bomb strapped to them to take out tanks or enemy infantry groups starts to rise too.

 

[skarosianlifeform]

Also, while the British and US opinion will dehumanize the CPS nations, they will also wonder even more

"Why do our men have to die fighting savages in this godforsaken land, fuck this shit".

 

[CountofDooku]

True, especially the Americans, fighting a unwanted war for the tyranny of Stalin and the British/ French Imperialism.

 

[skarosianlifeform]

I can already imagine anti-war newspapers arguing that "They already solidly hold China, Indochina, Malaya and DEI. Do you want our soldiers to cross and take all this
huge land, with bamboo brigades and kamikazes everywhere ? ".

 

[CountofDooku]

I can already imagine anti-war newspapers arguing that "They already solidly hold China, Indochina, Malaya and DEI. Do you want our soldiers to cross and take all this
huge land, with bamboo brigades and kamikazes everywhere ? ".

New Guinea allready is like Vietnam TTL and Burma-India will soon be similar too.

 

[CountofDooku]

Chapter 665: The Axis Central Powers Oil Situation

The German Empire had run into serious oil and petroleum problems during the Battle of France, the Axis Central Powers victory there gave them access to 682,128 tons of stolen oil. Till 1942 the German synthetic oil production had also increased to around 3,765 million tons synthetic oil (around 57% of German oil consumption, or about 92% of aviation gasoline) and was intended to be pushed even further, as the mass of German oil supply (63% to 72% before the war had been imported from the Western Hemisphere). Because of that the Allied bombing raids tried to target these synthetic oil plants whenever they could. Imperial Air Admiral Hermann Göring had called for a Imperial German Air Force to defeat the Soviet Union and protect the Fortress of Europe, numbering 15,000 to 25,000 planes, that would then consume the equivalent of 60% of the 1935/ 1936 world's oil production. With the expansion of the Axis Central Powers military to fight this more motorized, mechanized Second Great War, the German Empire was in dire need of further oil supplies. Besides their synthetic oil 1,038 million tons domestic oil were produced in Germany alone, mostly in the northwest Hannover and such as well as Baden and Würtemberg. Another 1,219 million tons came from Austria (Zistersdorf), 634 million tons were produced in Hungary (Balaton and Budafpusza), 159 million tons came from Poland (Jasto), as well as 2,062 million tons from Romania in 1942 (their oil production was later increased to around 5 million tons at the height of the Second Great War, a drastic decrease from their 8,7 million tons in 1936). Frontline forces even had to be supplied with oil from those forces further behind to keep going, a situation worsening in Russia, as there was not enough for the whole German tank, motorized and mechanized forces. The 26% to 52% shortfall could only be made up by conquering oil from Russia and this the Axis Central Powers focused on the Caucasian region, capturing Maikop (that produced 19 million barrels annually), Grozny (that produced 32 million barrels annually), and Baku (that produced 170 million barrels annually, mainly captured intact as the local Azerbaijany forces joined with the Axis Central Powers). Overall the Axis Central Powers needed a total of around 24,000,000 million tons in 1942 alone. Like everywhere in the Soviet Union, retreating forces destroyed or dismantled area's of production and usable installations, making the Axis Central Powers start from scratch. Experiencing this before Hermann Göring's staff had begun making the necessary preparations in advance. But a shortage of transport that was competing with military requirements, a shortage of drill equipment as well as drillers, and the absence of refining capacity at Maikop, Grozny and Baku created such difficulties that when the German forces had captured them, they were only able to extract around 1/4th or 1/5th (between 194,2 million to 205,3 million barrels, or 26 million to 27,85 million tons) of the former production for most of the Second Great War.

This still meant that the Axis Central Powers suddenly had enough oil and petroleum for their expanding air and tank forces after the Caucasian Campaign, while the Soviet Union's Production decreased to 1/3rd of it's former million tons production, making it becoming heavily depending on Allied (mostly American oil imports, as the USA increased it's production, producing 3.7 million barrels/ 504,774 tons per day to 4.7 million barrels/ 641,200 tons per day, so that by a Allies consumption of 7 billion barrels of oil, 6 billion of which came from the United States alone). Together with the Axis Central Power conquest of northern Iraq oil fields another 1,135,000 tons of production fell into the German hands, however the fact that some of this pipelines and railroads still lead to Allied controlled regions in Iraq, Syria and Transjordania (or Soviet Union controlled ones in the Caucasus had been destroyed), meant that the Axis Cental Powers could not fully access, the 15% to 18% of the world's oil production they had under there control in 1942. Britain meanwhile heavily relied on the remaining Middle East, were Persia produced 14,563,000 tons, the unoccupied parts of Iraq produced 3,163,000 tons, Bahrein produced around 1,062,000 tons, Kuweit would produce around 600,000 tons in 1944 thanks to American-British companies, and Saudi Arabia would produce around 6,400,000 tons. This lead to the bombing of Axis Central Power captured/ controlled Oil Fields by the Allies (mainly the Americans and British bombers) and Allied controlled Middle East Oil Fields by the Axis Central Powers (mainly German, Ottoman and Italian bombers). However Stalin in his paranoia openly warned the Allies to not bomb the Caucasian oil fields, as he mistrusted them to only do so to back-stab him, once they were finished with the German, using this opportunity to further weak the war torn Soviet Union. Because of this, Stalin wasted many of his own fighters and bombers trying to destroy the railroads, roads and pipelines coming from this oil fields instead, to deny their use for the Axis Central Powers, while still being able to capture them mostly intact afterwards. During this campaign the Soviet Union's already weakened air forces lost even more pilots and planes to their already superior German counterpart.

 

[skarosianlifeform]

What about Japanese, Soviet and British overall resource (not just oil) situation (even if we got a glimpse of Soviet and British oil situation there) ?

 

[novussa]

Just finished Reading the this tl i must say i love it everything long live monarchy down with republics. Just wondering is Wilson spinning in his grave at this point after his mission was to make the world safe for democary so how would his reaction to this be i wonder.

 

[Jaenera Targaryen]

Just finished Reading the this tl i must say i love it everything long live monarchy down with republics. Just wondering is Wilson spinning in his grave at this point after his mission was to make the world safe for democary so how would his reaction to this be i wonder.

"This isn't what I wanted! Where did it all go wrong?"

 

[CountofDooku]

What about Japanese, Soviet and British overall resource (not just oil) situation (even if we got a glimpse of Soviet and British oil situation there) ?

We will get to that too soon. A little bit in the next chapter (reguarding rubber). Many things however should be unproblematic for them as South America actually produces quit a lot of some ressoruces back them and they still control most colonies.

Just finished Reading the this tl i must say i love it everything long live monarchy down with republics. Just wondering is Wilson spinning in his grave at this point after his mission was to make the world safe for democary so how would his reaction to this be i wonder.

Most likely by now Wilson is rotating in his grave like a twister.

 

[CountofDooku]

Chapter 666: The Imperial Japanese and Co-Prosperity Sphere Oil Situation

As a densely populated country with few natural resources, especially oil, the Imperial Japanese Army focused on gaining access to strategic resources in Manchuria, East China, Mongolia and the Soviet Union, while the Imperial Japanese Navy favored targeting the Dutch East Indies, Indochina and the Pacific Islands. In 1938 Japan imported 106 thousand barrels of oil per day, only producing 7% (or around 8 thousand barrels of oil per day) of their domestic and military oil requirements, while 10% came from the Dutch East Indies and 70% to 80% came from the United States of America. The 25 oil companies of Japan had 37 refineries and could totally only produce 22 thousand barrels of oil per day (or around 22% of the Japanese demand). Because of that the majority of their oil had to be imported and the United States produced 63% of the worlds petroleum. Further more 60% of the internal Japanese petroleum production marked was controlled by the Stanvac Company and the Rising Sun Company (in cooperation to Royal Dutch Shell oil). Because of their sizable coal reserves, the Japanese attempted the established synthetic fuel industry as the Germans, but lacked the expertise, alloy and catalytic metals required for synfuel production back then. On top of that the Imperial Japanese Navy operated their very own petroleum refinery, to produce heavy fuel oil and would add another one by the End of 1942, they also owned their own coal mine in Chosen. On the other hand the Imperial Japanese Army operated their own coal mines, oil refinery and synthetic fuel plants in Manchuria and Yankoku. At the beginning of the Second Great War in the Pacific, the Empire of Japan had stockpiled enough oil for 4 years of normal consumption, or two years of war supply, thanks to increased manufacturing. Until the liberation of Indochina into Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, the Americans shipped oil to Japan until they imposed a total Embargo, leading to the fact that 75% of the aviation gasoline fueling the Japanese planes crushing the American Fleet in the Philippine Sea, on their way to relieve the Republic of the Philippines. The Japanese Empire's Army and Navy thereby knew that they had to conquer and capture the oil fields of Royal Shell in the Dutch East Indies and Borneo (that produced 165 thousand barrels of oil per day), as their energy depended on foreign imports. Since these areas (including Indochina and Malaysia) also contained around 90% of the world's natural supply of rubber it was crucial to seize these resources quickly, ensure their long term maintenance of power and a Pacific Wall to defeat any Allied attempt to reconquer these regions.

Because of the damage taken to the oil fields or outright Allied sabotage, the production in the conquered regions shrunk to 115 thousand barrels of oil per day in 1942 after the conquest, only slowly rising to 121 to 132 thousand barrels of oil per day in 1943. During this time the Japanese Navy required at least 18 thousand barrels of oil per day and the Imperial Army consumed 6 thousand barrels of oil per day. As a frame of reference, the US fuel demand for the war in the Pacific was 45 thousand barrels of oil per day in 1942, 78 thousand barrels of oil per day in 1943 which became even significantly higher in 1944. The overall oil supply from Sumatra, Java and Borneo shrunk from 32,000,000 tons in 1940 down to between 25,000,000 tons and 27,000,000 tons of oil between 1941 to 1943. But the supply line to Japan would dry up as the Japanese produced around 247,465 tons of tankers in 1942, losing only 4074 tons to Allied attacks by submarine or planes. In 1943 their 382,926 tons produced would be for the first time be outnumbered by the losses who numbered 386,014 tons. From then on it was a downfall as the Japanese Empire realized that the Allies could and would starve them out even if their defense ring was holding, so the Japanese started to build submarine transports and submarine tankers to better secure their own transports as it was a massive 5,600 kilometer until these resource convoys had reached the Japanese Home Island. This meant that by 1944 the petroleum supply chain for the Japanese Empire was cut in half and would have dried out completely had the war continued longer. Overall 56% of of Japanese ships were sunk due to aerial bombs or submarine launched torpedoes, with the US submarines in the Pacific responsible for over 50% of all marine vessels sunk during the Second Great War. The fact that many of the oil facilities in Dutch East Indies had been sabotaged and took a long time to be brought back to full production, something further limiting the Japanese and Co-Prosperity Sphere use of this. Even more so as a American submarine unknowingly sank a Japanese cargo ship transporting a significant amount oil production equipment and expert personnel. The Japanese Empire compensated parts of this shortcomings of crude oil by limiting their pilot training hours and navigation courses in favor of deploying Kamikaze plain tactics (with only enough fuel for a one way trip). In contrast to that the United States supplied around 85% of the crude oil and overall oil used by the Allies during the Second Great War.

 

[CountofDooku]

Chapter 667: The Ottoman Way

The laicism, separation of church and state, populism and nationalism created by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (therefore called Kemalism) was the ideological basis for the Neo-Ottoman Empire/ Second Ottoman Empire. Some of them opposed the multi-party democracy established after the Young Turks and were more in favor of the constitutional monarchy of the Young Ottomans, who saw their roots and authority coming from Mohammedanism, but were open to synchronize some of it with liberal ideas and parliamentarian. With the rise of Nationalism and religious fanaticism and ideology in the world, the Kemalists watched with longing and jealousy to Europe, were the National Monarchists and Fascists Royalists had managed to direct this nationalist and religious ambitions and ideologies into a form that they could not only control, but truly shape. This gave birth to the Young Neo-Ottomans, a National Monarchist group that believed the same concept could save and renew the Turkish Republic. To do so they had to recreate a strong and powerful Ottoman Empire, but none that was plagued by multiculturalism and multi-religious groups. Unity trough Nationality and Religion was their end goal, a ideal that sought to form a new centralized and united state out of the weakened remnants of Monarchy and Mohammedan Religion that had so heavily slowed down and weakened the Ottoman Empire for centuries before. Taking this approach the Young Neo-Ottomans in the government and the military reached out to their former allies, the reborn German Empire and the reborn Austrian-Hungarian Empire, who had managed to archive this fusion and grew stronger because of this before them. Not willing to become the Sick Man of the Bosporus again, the partly industrialized nation of Turkey tried to modernize it's military-industrial complex with their help, not willing to lose any more influence to Austria-Hungary, or Italy in the Balkan Peninsula. The old alliance with Bulgaria was renewed and drove them closer to the new Axis Central Powers, but many Young Neo-Ottomans believed that they had to dramatically increase the National and Religious unity of their nation in order to not be torn apart from the inside like during the First Great War, when they claimed that Armenian, Kurds and other minorities had back-stabbed the proud and victorious Ottoman Army at the home-front.

To do so these Young Neo-Ottomans had open ears for German Chancellor Hitler's dream of Living Space in the East and the Axis Central Powers call to destroy the Soviet Union and free it's minorities. The very same regional nationalism that had split and divided Turkey after the First Great War was now seen by the Young Neo-Ottomans as a great means to get rid of their century old rival Russia and by doing so unite themselves with the Turkish Ethnic groups in Central Asia into a unified Greater Turkish Empire that would be big and strong enough to oppose all foreign powers trying to grab themselves a part of it while being reborn to a Great World Power themselves at the same time. The threat of Communism and the Turkish Socialist Soviet Republic puppet later created by the Soviet Union, convinced many Kemalists to support the Young Neo-Ottoman, even if it was for different other reasons then the Young Neo-Ottomans believed. While cracking down on left socialist and communist groups, the Kemalists believed that with the return of the Sultan, they would once again have a more unifying figure as the head of their state, one that could claim, lure in and restrain the threat from the religious fanatics and rising Mohammedanists too, while like in the true times of the Old/ First Ottoman Empire they as the military and their regional commanders and governors would hold the true power over the new state in their hands. Neutral and non-aggressive before this new alliances and friendship with the Axis Central Powers lead to a rise of anti-Allied and anti-Russian (anti-Soviet) Propaganda in the Kemalist, Young Neo-Ottoman and Mohammedan factions of the Turkish Republic, while it was transforming into a new Turkish/ Ottoman Empire. Therefore the Kemalists and Young Neo-Ottomans helped the German encouraged coup either directly, or indirectly when their forces were not outright opposing of fighting these parts of the government and military toppling the old Republic and it's government. A military coup in disguise of a aristocratic and religious one so to speak, while at the same time allying with aristocratic and religious Mohammedan groups to a extent. They even aided the coup directly by supplying trucks, trains and airplanes to quickly spread it's holdings and influence over the whole country before any other group could even truly react.

This new officially once again Mohammedan Regime managed to ease the religious hardliners to aid the new government instead of opposing it again, while at the same time getting old aristocratic monarchists and democrat republicans in on their train with a parliamentarian constitutional monarchy. Socialist and Communists of aiding groups to the Soviet Puppet regime were persecuted and ended up in reeducation camps or shot. Their new alliance partners of the Neo/ Second Ottoman Empire, the Axis Central Powers helped with the modernization of Army and Industry, but similar to Italy, Turkey had not been ready for the Second Great War when it started. Their claims of a Sultanate and Ottoman Empire, were claims of old borders for a new ethnic Turkish nation state, that sought to kill or oust the ethnic and religious minorities inside it's new and old reclaimed borders, so that they never could betray their great Empire from within again. Trough Propaganda and modernization the new regime created jobs and strengthened the new state, but had to wait until after the Fall of France before it could take it's first “conquest” as fruits of victory. The Turkish invasion into Fascist French Syria and their following re annexation (without any bigger Fascist French resistance, similar to Japan in Indochina) of that territory convinced many in a wave of nationalism and patriotism that they could reclaim old strength, position and power quit easily now that Britain and France were weakened by the New/ Second great War in Europe. However the loose coalition of Kemalist Military, Aristocrat Young Neo-Ottomans and Mohammedans, while using their ideology for a Pan-Turkish movement and to encourage other Mohammedans to rise up against the Allied and Soviet Colonial Imperialists to join their Sultanate to recreate the Ummah Caliphate under Turkish Ottoman rule stretching over the whole Mohammedan world either directly, or as a protector with Mecca as their most secret and holy side firm under Turkish Ottoman authority once again and the Arabs driven back into the desert. But similar with Italy the Axis Central Powers could not wait further after the failed incursion in Iraq and the starting Eastern Crusade until maybe the Second Ottoman Empire would be ready for war. Therefore German Army and Navy forces (two whole armies) alongside a few Austrian-Hungarian and Italian ones (combined around one army) were send to the Second Ottoman Empire and started to attack the southern Soviet Union as well as the Northern Allied Middle East front, aiding the Turks/ Ottomans massively in their invasion of Greek Islands, the Anatolian/ Armenian and Caucasus Campaign, the Invasion of Cyprus and the Middle East expansion into Syria, Iraq, Transjordania and Persia. This so called Axis Central Powers support was in parts so massive, that the German Imperial Army often outnumbered all other Axis Central Power forces in a battle/ frontline.

The Mohammedan claims of the Second Ottoman Empire as a Mohammedan Turkish Nation State paid off when the Azerbaijan Mohammedan people betrayed the Soviet Union and allowed for a massive push of the Turks and Axis Central Powers into the Caucasian Region by switching sides and cutting of a whole Soviet Red Army. Still these victories were more German then the Ottoman Turkish propaganda claimed them to be mainly Ottoman/ Turkish/ Mohammedan and even most of the weapons of the Mohammedan and Pan-Turkish rebels in Central Asia actually came from German sources, even if logistics and infrastructure were a nightmare inside of Turkey. This became clear as many of the early “victories” and “conquests” were because of a lack, or the encirclement of Allied and Red Army forces opposing this rather smaller Axis Central Powers offensive forces. Once however enough enemy reinforces had stabilized this Caucasian and Middle East Fronts, the Turks/ Ottomans and the Axis Central Powers had to bring in more of their own forces as well, stopping their blitzkrieg and slowing down drastically, mainly because of the poor supply and reinforcements coming trough because of the overall problematic infrastructure.

 

[novussa]

Well the Caucasus are as always a pain in ass to fight in good luck ottomans you need it.

 

[novussa]

I have been thinking about What Will happen to various soviet ledares when it collpases i mean after all the oppersion they Done you can bet that the people Will want revenge and we know What happend to mussolini. Think stalin and the rest of comrades are found by partisans who decides its time for some vengence wouldnt that be some irony that the so called communist who claim they repeasnts the people are beaten and then hanged in the sqaure. Just som thoughts.

 

[Alpha-King98760]

I have been thinking about What Will happen to various soviet ledares when it collpases i mean after all the oppersion they Done you can bet that the people Will want revenge and we know What happend to mussolini. Think stalin and the rest of comrades are found by partisans who decides its time for some vengence wouldnt that be some irony that the so called communist who claim they repeasnts the people are beaten and then hanged in the sqaure. Just som thoughts.

I want to about Stalin getting strung from a street lamp Mussolini style!

 

[novussa]

Agree

 

[novussa]

Maybe rest as Well.

 

[CountofDooku]

I have been thinking about What Will happen to various soviet ledares when it collpases i mean after all the oppersion they Done you can bet that the people Will want revenge and we know What happend to mussolini. Think stalin and the rest of comrades are found by partisans who decides its time for some vengence wouldnt that be some irony that the so called communist who claim they repeasnts the people are beaten and then hanged in the sqaure. Just som thoughts.

I want to about Stalin getting strung from a street lamp Mussolini style!

While that might be a funny outcome and quit crazy, Stalin's terror and fear as well as that of his followers will prevent this for some time still, however this might change once there is a coup and the Soviets break apart in a internal power struggle while fighting the ACP too.

 

[CountofDooku]

Chapter 668: The Pacific Theatre Division

The Pacific Theatre of the Second Great War was divided into a couple of major strategic zones and theatres. In the North the Pacific Ocean Area (POA): Northern Pacific stretched from Alaska over the Aleuts all the way to Hokkaido Karagfuto/ Sakhalin and the eastern coats of the Russian/ Soviet Far East. This area was not only important, because it secured the continental United States directly against the Japanese Empire led Co-Prosperity Sphere invasion, but also because it was had been the main eastern supply route to the Soviet Union until the Japanese and Manchurians had captured the Far East. In the Central Pacific stretching from the Californian and Central American West Coast to Korea and the Eastern Chinese Coast was the Pacific Ocean Area (POA): Central Pacific, a region that had once bee seen as the direct route of American operations in a possible war against Japan to reach the Japanese Home Islands. However since these early war-games the American planning staff had realized that the supply of a fleet over such a long distance would always benefit the defender in the Pacific and had therefore opted for a more southern approach. This so called Island hopping strategy was meant to ensure that a chain of islands could be used as a linked line of supply bases, therefore allowing for a trans-pacific ocean operation.

South from there from the western Coast of Peru and Chile, the Pacific Ocean Area (POA): Southeast Pacific all the way to American Samoa, British Fidschi and New Zealand. All of this Area is under the strategic supreme command of Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet Chester William Nimitz, the fleet admiral coordinating the naval operations of the Untied States Navy and the United States Marines against the Empire of Japan and the Co-Prosperity Sphere in the Pacific War. His main objective after Midway is to defend Alaska and Hawaii from further Japanese invasions and defeat the Imperial Japanese and Co-Prosperity Sphere Navies to cripple their offensive capacities and End this war as quick as possible.

West of his area lies the the so called Pacific Ocean Area (POA): Southwest Pacific stretching from Australia all across Southeast Asia. This is the main area of the so called Island hopping strategy and the Supreme Command is put under General Douglas MacArthur in charge of the United States Army operations in this overall area. In the Solomon Islands (in cooperation with Nimitz there) and New Guinea, General MacArthur and his forces face the majority of pressure from the Japanese Empire and their Co-Prosperity Sphere allies (mainly the Taikoku and Chosen Empires) in the Pacific Front at the moment. The Indian Ocean meanwhile is designated as the so called British Strategic Direction Area where the British Royal Navy under Admiral of the Fleet Louis Mountbatten

and Commander-in-Chief, India, Archibald Percival Wavell who commanded the Allied Operations along the Indian-Burmese front against the Imperial Japanese Army, the Royal Burmese Army, the Royal Yikoku Army and the Tibetan Empire Army. Together with Mountbatten, Wavell secured the South of Asia, including the Indian Subcontinent as a whole as well as all islands in the Indian Ocean, including Ceylon and Madagascar.