How did Japan lose WW2?

1) they over-estimated the resolve of the American people

2) Harry dropped 'the bomb'

Papaw

Yes, but only under optimal conditions. That's the weakness of it. The USA wasn't going to sit back and let kamikazes do what the rest of their army couldn't. They changed tactics, so 1 Japanese almost never got anywhere near a position to kill 400 Americans.

Not only that, it is an exceptionally wasteful way of waging war. In order to win a war, you need veteran combat troops. Japan started to use kamikazes because they hadn't any experienced combat pilots left anymore. By using kamikazes their air force could never replace combat losses. A kamikaze can be a boy out of flight school with less than basic training. All he has to do is make a one way flight.

That boy is much more efficient if properly trained, and with a lot of experience. By default kamikazes never get any experience. At best (if they failed an returned alive) another shot to paradise. That was an exception, because boys with less than basic training can't navigate very well. Many ran out of fuel and crashed uselessly in sea on the way back home.

Israel showed this very well. They usually fought with not the best equipment, but with highly experienced pilots and soldiers. They send a LOT of effort to protect that knowledge. It is the only army in the world using 'tankbulances', Merkava tanks converted as ambulance. Merkava's are designed to offer the very best protection possible. Better even than the Leo II or Abrams. I don't say the Merkava is better, just that it offers better crew protection.

You can see two extremes:

Japan (and islam!): a human life isn't worth anything. Blow yourself to paradise!

Israel: we'd love to go to paradise, but not right now.

I think the Israeli approach is the best.

The vast majority of Kamikaze pilots were shot down before achieving their objective.

Your history teacher is correct. Japan's military made poor tactical decisions. By the end of 1942 many of Japan's aircraft was outdated and no match for US aircraft, or it's aviators.

You've obviously taken the time to read what could occur when a kamikaze got through. Take the time to read up on how the Japanese Imperial Fleet lost 3 aircraft carriers in just one day.

Japan lost for a plethora of different reasons. The United States had dormant economic power that Japan just couldn't match. The Japanese had a fundamental misunderstanding of the American mindset. They believed that by striking hard and fast at the heart of naval power in Pear Harbor, that the United States would become demoralized and pull out of Hawaii, allowing them free reign for their expanding empire. But it did not have the intended effect. Instead of demoralizing us, it galvanized us. It united us in a way we had not seen since the revolutionary war.

Kamikaze attacks seem like they would be effective. But most kamikaze pilots were recruits and their airplanes were older models. This allowed superior pilots and craft to thwart most direct assaults. Not to mention that spending the lives of pilots simply was not cost effective.

effortless one million. They have been low in gasoline 2. Atomics Bombs outcomes grew to become into too plenty for them. Manpower they did have in a large quantity it incredibly is why the US used the bombs to stay away from and shop US lives, beacuse an long tern invasion conflict grew to become into eminent to take place. Japan grew to become into no longer a standard job like germany grew to become into the place the Allied went as a team against Germany, once I say ordinary job i mean that the US did no longer take the thrashing from the Germans like the the remainder of Europe did in particular Russia. With Japan it grew to become into in basic terms the US, and very nearly on the top Russia additionally joined the US against Japan. yet better than something they misplaced with the aid of fact the bombed Pear Harbor. solid success.

How did they lose? THEY GOT PWWWWWWNED!!!!!! By China, America, Britain, the Philippines, Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, and just about every other country on the planet. It's not nice (or good policy) to genocidally **** off the entire international community, Mr. Hirohito.

because we dropped 2 Anglo Canadian US Nukes on them

Once the war in europe was over the Japanese not only had the US military against they had the contend with the RN and the British army pushing them out of Burma

Hiroshima with a side of NAGASAKI

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