Originally posted by Officer of Engineers
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Where did the idea of 28 days come from? Japan had already demonstrated that it could fight for years. The aircraft it was using in China were the equal of what the British sent to the East before the war, and thanks to the Washington Naval Treaty the admiratly had a rough idea of how many capitol ships the IJN had. Likewise they should have known that the IJN modeled after the RN as it was and having smashed the Russians was a thouroughly proffesional force organized and led along British lines.
Even 6 battalions of the Black Watch or Coldstream Guards could not have held out and prevented the fall. Let alone 6 battalions of poorly or half trained, poorly equipped mostly Commonwealth and colonial troops.
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