"Pride Before the Fall: Why Japan Failed at Tank Warfare" Topic

"hen people think of the Japanese military in World War II, they often picture fearsome Zero fighters or soldiers battling to the death—not tanks and armored cars wreaking havoc on unsuspecting enemies. That impression tends to be reserved for the Germans. Japan's World War II armored force was never an important component of the Imperial war machine and its performance throughout the war was mediocre at best.

But why? Japan was among the first world powers to experiment with armored vehicles. It even put into practice combined-arms warfare years before the Germans did. Then, through a mix of officer corps infighting, strong personalities, and shifting battlefield priorities, Japan squandered all that accomplishment.

When Heinz Guderian—Germany's legendary Blitzkrieg architect and author of the pioneering 1937 armored warfare book Achtung-Panzer!— searched the world for examples of tank development after World War I, he neglected to look eastward at Japan, one of the interwar period's leading nations in armored warfare…."
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Armand

Very interesting. It demonstrated to me something I had somewhat understood before. The Japanese leadership were very traditional … which turned out to be their undoing. When it came to the use of AFVs.
It is clear as we all know the CBI/PTO was a lot different than the ETO. When it came to AFV warfare and a number of other things as well.

Happy you enjoyed it my good friend!. (smile)

Amicalement
Armand