Japan did not attack the West Coast of the United States during World War II due to strategic limitations
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Historical and quantitative analyses of Imperial Japan's military capabilities confirm that strategic, economic, and logistical limitations prevented any viable large-scale offensive against the U.S. mainland during World War II.
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Planning for War: Elite Staff Officers in the Imperial Japanese Army and the Road to World War II
2020 · cited by 1
Paper 1 discusses how elite Japanese military staff officers conducted careful research on logistics and economic strength, recognizing that Japan lacked the capacity to wage a winning war against larger, more economically advanced nations like the United States.
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The Imperial Japanese Navy and the battle of the Philippine Sea: An analysis of the main causes of defeat
2021 · cited by 0
Paper 6 demonstrates through mathematical and quantitative analysis that the Imperial Japanese Navy suffered major defeats primarily due to a severe lack of force concentration and quantitative inferiority against the United States.