What if the Japanese Invaded Australia in World War 2?
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Date: 2022-07-15
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Peter
Mate, one of the items you failed to mention was command/supply lines, as well as size of force needed to invade a country with an entrenched enemy. There would have been no point in the Japanese juist seizing the coastal strip between Darwin and north of Brisbane because the resources they needed to prosecute the war were not to be found there. Your estimate of a 150K force (which equates to roughly 10 divisions) would have been grossly insufficient to hold this area with supply lines extended too far from Japan and their other conquered lands. No, there was no way an already overstretched Japanese military was going to invade Australia.
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Mate, one of the items you failed to mention was command/supply lines, as well as size of force needed to invade a country with an entrenched enemy. There would have been no point in the Japanese juist seizing the coastal strip between Darwin and north of Brisbane because the resources they needed to prosecute the war were not to be found there. Your estimate of a 150K force (which equates to roughly 10 divisions) would have been grossly insufficient to hold this area with supply lines extended too far from Japan and their other conquered lands. No, there was no way an already overstretched Japanese military was going to invade Australia.
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Jason
Why does this timeline not included the Manhattan Project? I can see the long route to Japan, but since the war is longer the A bomb in Europe against the Nazis to show Stalin we would use it on civilian (mostly industrialized for war effort) targets and enable the US to negotiate the Rhine boundary between communist and capitalist zones. Otherwise, I realize the Soviet Red Army would be exhausted and overextended by this time but I think they would take all of Germany if not by the end of the war within five years of it.
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Why does this timeline not included the Manhattan Project? I can see the long route to Japan, but since the war is longer the A bomb in Europe against the Nazis to show Stalin we would use it on civilian (mostly industrialized for war effort) targets and enable the US to negotiate the Rhine boundary between communist and capitalist zones. Otherwise, I realize the Soviet Red Army would be exhausted and overextended by this time but I think they would take all of Germany if not by the end of the war within five years of it.
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DRTisKING
What happens with the Chinese in this timeline? Does Chaing Kai Chek and the Nationalists win the Chinese Civil war and with American Investmwnts effectively build themselves as the Economic Superpower of Asia Japan Became with a Chinese American friendship in Anti-communism forcing the two economic and demographic powers of the world as allies into the modern day or does corruption and subversion crush China into a continuation of the stagnation that made it so weak in the 19th and early 20th century?
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What happens with the Chinese in this timeline? Does Chaing Kai Chek and the Nationalists win the Chinese Civil war and with American Investmwnts effectively build themselves as the Economic Superpower of Asia Japan Became with a Chinese American friendship in Anti-communism forcing the two economic and demographic powers of the world as allies into the modern day or does corruption and subversion crush China into a continuation of the stagnation that made it so weak in the 19th and early 20th century?
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whatifalthist
Japan: Were coming to attack you Australia.
Australians: LOL ok mate.
Australians: Laugh hysterically as Japanese landing craft are ripped in half by giant Sharks and Crocs.
Australians: Laughs even harder and spit takes their VB when the Japanese troops that arrive by air are instantly wiped out by a horde of frenzied Emus and Kangaroos.
Australians: Rolls on the floor, laughing their arses off when the Japanese Commander has his face crushed in by a wombats giant arse.
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Japan: Were coming to attack you Australia.
Australians: LOL ok mate.
Australians: Laugh hysterically as Japanese landing craft are ripped in half by giant Sharks and Crocs.
Australians: Laughs even harder and spit takes their VB when the Japanese troops that arrive by air are instantly wiped out by a horde of frenzied Emus and Kangaroos.
Australians: Rolls on the floor, laughing their arses off when the Japanese Commander has his face crushed in by a wombats giant arse.
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Grafknar
7: 17 - WITH. WHAT. NAVY? Seriously. D-Day was an amphibious miracle with the two biggest naval powers invading the teeth of hostile territory WITHIN air cover range. The USSR could NEVER have even gotten that many troops to Japan to begin with, BEFORE we even talk about the actual amphibious attack itself. Only if the US transported them would they even sniff the Japanese coast. It is insane that this isn't realized.
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7: 17 - WITH. WHAT. NAVY? Seriously. D-Day was an amphibious miracle with the two biggest naval powers invading the teeth of hostile territory WITHIN air cover range. The USSR could NEVER have even gotten that many troops to Japan to begin with, BEFORE we even talk about the actual amphibious attack itself. Only if the US transported them would they even sniff the Japanese coast. It is insane that this isn't realized.
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Rajiv
The Australian Government controlled the Australian Army etc in WWII not the British ( as you say.
Go away and check this out
There was quite a dispute between Australia and Britain ( backed by the US ) about Australian troops returning to Australia and the Pacific upon Japan's entry into the War. The Brits insisted that Not Yet
The Australian troops returned.
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The Australian Government controlled the Australian Army etc in WWII not the British ( as you say.
Go away and check this out
There was quite a dispute between Australia and Britain ( backed by the US ) about Australian troops returning to Australia and the Pacific upon Japan's entry into the War. The Brits insisted that Not Yet
The Australian troops returned.
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TheShadow
I strictly disagree with some things in this video, as with axis control of africa and likely portions of the middle east it's probable that more troops would be freed to go to the eastern front and several nations ex: iran would be swayed into joining the axis, possibly opening up a new front even
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I strictly disagree with some things in this video, as with axis control of africa and likely portions of the middle east it's probable that more troops would be freed to go to the eastern front and several nations ex: iran would be swayed into joining the axis, possibly opening up a new front even
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MyBrothersKeeper
Aussie's be like: We'll draw a line at Brisbane and let the wildlife thin the herd and by the time they get to Brisbane they will be ready to surrender.
Australia has some of the most dangerous wildlife in the world, everywhere you look something can kill you.
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Aussie's be like: We'll draw a line at Brisbane and let the wildlife thin the herd and by the time they get to Brisbane they will be ready to surrender.
Australia has some of the most dangerous wildlife in the world, everywhere you look something can kill you.
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Prince
That would've been easier said than done. Because they'd have to deal with the Australian Outback, which is a desert that covers most of the continent, and all the dangerous creatures that live in Australia. Not to mention the United States would rush to defend Australia.
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That would've been easier said than done. Because they'd have to deal with the Australian Outback, which is a desert that covers most of the continent, and all the dangerous creatures that live in Australia. Not to mention the United States would rush to defend Australia.
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