"Japan has distinctly improved its strategic position, but in any operations in southeast Asia it would be forced to maintain long lines of communication..." the report added. "It would need considerable numbers of troops from China and the Soviet frontiers. Its battle fleet would, to some degree, be divided and its shipping would face the practical certainty of being driven from the seas."
The Foreign Policy Association suggested that as a more likely course, Japan would "follow Hitler's policy of a series of piecemeal attacks on outlying and less defensible regions."—United Press.
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