What was Japan's biggest mistake during World War II? This is the full explanation

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What was Japan's biggest mistake during World War II?

JAPAN WAS REALLY NOT SERIOUS ABOUT DEVELOPING ITS ARMED FORCES.

Instead of uniting to evaluate future war strategies, Japan instead made it harder to break up the various factions in its military, and at worst the factions attacked each other, and even killed each other to gain Japan's political dominance essentially to maintain the country's self-esteem and ego.

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As a result, the Japanese were dragged into an eternal war that was completely unnecessary with China just for the sake of self-esteem, their main goal of invading Siberia was never a lesson for them that their weaponry was so 'Outgunned' compared to the Soviets who at that time relied on their fastest BT-7 tanks under the command of Georgy Zukhov (it was difficult to find the same commander of quality in Japan).

Below I give you a comparison

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A swarm of BT-7s appears to be doing an offensive at Khalkin Gol 1939, this tank has a speed of up to 85km/h. Without you even realizing that Zukhov first applied the battle of the Independent Tanks to the Germans with his Blitzkrieg.

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Perhaps this is not a complete description of Japan's tactical warfare, but it is certain that Japan still adheres to the military tradition of its ancestors, namely the 'Human wave'

A collection of Japanese relics are being examined by the Infantry and Soviet tank crews. There's no need to explain the quality of this tank.

A group of Kwantung Warriors are hanging out in the back line of the opponent

Well, maybe the pictures above are not all depictions of the battle of Khalkin Gol between the Soviets and the Japanese, and actually the Japanese had soviet prisoners. 

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But broadly speaking, Japan's combat doctrine is very feudal, even to paralyze a kind of soviet fast tank must use infantry power rather than at cannons, Japanese tanks that are there can be said to have a poor performance.

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The Japanese army which became the ruler of the country, became interested in the navy's offensive proposal of the Pacific front and abandoned its fruitless Soviet front. 

The Pacific Front seemed tempting enough for the Army, but he forgot that his soldiers had no combat experience in the jungle plus the Pacific region was a tropical region with all the threat of tropical diseases that at times infected their troops.

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But it was all covered when the Japanese seemed to be drunk on victory in their early months, or at least before they faced off against opposing combat soldiers, not the colonialist forces they captured in Singapore, and the Philippines in bulk (who had poor equipment and even still wore their father's 'great war' uniforms and weaponry). 

And finally it was only felt when they got to Guadalcanal and Cocoda Line in Papua New Guinea, practically they stopped there.

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The bright face of the imperial soldiers who were in the American infantry in the Philippines, clearly visible from his helmet and uniform that still used the great war model, this proves that American troops in the Philippines are not as combat troops but colonial forces and are not 'well-equipped'.

THAT'S THE FIRST

THE SECOND ONE :

A matter of military doctrine and confidence. Broadly speaking, Japanese officers were very aristocratic, authoritative, rigid, and feudal. 

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While lowly soldiers are like civil servants, where there is no orientation to freedom in war initiatives, so if their officers die the rest are either killed or killed themselves.

Regarding the confidence of Japanese Army soldiers number 1 but in a very lousy strategy (Tomoyuki Yamashita, Tadamichi Kuribayashi, Kunio Nakagawa, Shunroku Hata, Iwane Matsui is the exception), seeing that the Americans could be easily crushed in the Philippines, Colonel Kiyonao Ichiki the Filipino veteran tried his luck to human wave in Guadalcanal with a night raid strategy.

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And as result, Colonel Kiyonao Ichiki's masterpiece with the initial force of 917 soldiers managed to get his troops killed as many as 789 troops overnight at Alligator Creek, the battle of Tenaru.

Kiyonao Ichiki

Colonel Kiyonao Ichiki, who ended up Seppuku in the same battle out of embarrassment.

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And with his innocent attitude, already know will fail but banzai charge is still used until the end of the war as the final solution.

THE THIRD...

Let's switch to the Imperial Navy

Japan has a special trick strategy before conducting covert military operations in order to run successfully and not be tapped by the enemy.

That is the 'silent' trick, which is a strategy where at the time of the special task force of the fleet on the way to the target of attack operations, each ship in the task force should not communicate via radio, and telecommunications can only be done in a limited way via telegram it is only for reports to the headquarters, and it is done before the target has been reached.

And the great thing about this operation was that it was very successful when it attacked Pearl Harbor, because the American radio station in Midway didn't get any communication activity when the Japanese fleet crossed them.

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However, this trick backfired on the Japanese when they were about to invade Midway, and eventually submerge 4 of its precious aircraft carriers and its brightest commander, the Yamaguchi Tamon.

(The Japan's biggest mistake during World War II)