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Article: Some logistical challenges for the Japanese in the New Guinea campaign, 1942-1945.
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- Sabretache
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- June 1, 2005
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Logistics played a key role in the defeat of the Japanese forces in New Guinea during the Second World War. In the awful conditions of that battlefield, a lack of supply led to a fighting force that was wracked with disease, close to starvation and continually short of war materiels. Some have suggested that this outcome was but part of a wider failure to come to terms with modern warfare. Taafe sums up the view of many:
Indeed, for all its initial military successes, Japan was in almost
all respects incapable of waging a protracted conflict against an
industrial giant like the United States, a fact that many Japanese
military leaders recognised from ...