Russian attack on country of Georgia

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Originally Posted by piercehawkeye45

First, he made some very big assumptions, the largest being that the Japanese would continue to have the will and resources to fight.

Will? The army that would rather commit suicide than surrender? You don't have a clue about the Jap culture of the era.

Second is that the views of military leaders represent the views of the country.

You reaffirmed my first statement, the military was the country. There were no views other than the military.

Third, while not an assumption, is never mentioning the fact that the Soviet Union would have an extraordinary effect on the Pacific Theater.

C'mon, with what? We were running a two front war because we had a chance to build an unbeatable war machine while the Russians were getting beat the fuck up. They had all they could handle just getting to Berlin, plus a lot of new territory they desperately wanted to hang on to. Their ability to stage a major attack on Japan was severely limited.