yes, america built 14 aircraft carriers in 1945 to Japan's zero...

That is the main offensive weapon of this naval war...

Ok more support for my argument from your source:

"Japan, an island empire totally dependent on maintaining open sea lanes to ensure her raw material imports, managed to build just sixty-three DDs (some twenty or so of which would have been classified by the Allies as DEs) and an unspecified (and by my unofficial count, relatively small) number of 'escort' vessels. In the same time span, the US put some eight hundred forty-seven antisubmarine capable craft in the water! And that total doesn't even cover the little stuff like the armed yachts and subchasers we used off our Eastern seaboard against the German U-Boats. All in all, by the end of the war, American naval power was unprecedented. In fact, by 1945 the U.S. Navy was larger than every other navy in the world, combined!"


That does not sound to me like Japan was capable of offensive warfare in 1945. But hey, believe what you want to believe.


Oh, there is more!!!

The Pacific War was also very much a war of merchant shipping, in that practically everything needed to defend and/or assault the various island outposts of the Japanese Empire had to be transported across vast stretches of ocean. Japan also had to maintain her vital supply lanes to places like Borneo and Java in order to keep her industrial base supplied. A look at the relative shipbuilding output of the two antagonists is enlightening.

Merchant Ship Production (in tons)
Year United States Japan
1939 376,419 320,466
1940 528,697 293,612
1941 1,031,974 210,373
1942 5,479,766 260,059
1943 11,448,360 769,085
1944 9,288,156 1,699,203
1945 5,839,858 599,563
Total 33,993,230 4,152,361


Ok, so if Japan is dependant on access to the open ocean for offensive warfare, and the american navy is bigger than all other navies in the world in 1945 COMBINED,

how bouts we evaluate the probability of the Japanese conducting offensive warfare from their shattered Island and disconnected possessions???

But hey, now you can argue with your own source....


You do realize that you are attempting to argue that Japan was a formidable enemy in 1945, capable of offensive warfare, and you are referring to a source whose main thesis is that Japan was a tiny dwarf from day one in 1937??

UMMMMMMMMMMM........

Talk about one thick headed individual.

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