[vetvetdoug]

I just finished reading “Pearl Harbor” by Craig Nelson. Japanese economists and those studying the feasibility of Japan or Germany surviving a long war with the US said the capability of the US for war production would bury both countries. The radical militarists of Japan pushed for war. Even Admiral Yamamoto repeatedly admonished his leaders that a war with the US was suicide.

[Leaning Right]

> those studying the feasibility of Japan or Germany surviving a long war with the US said the capability of the US for war production would bury both countries <

On some level the German and Japanese leadership probably knew that. But they were hoping for quick, early victories, followed by a favorable negotiated peace.

And that was a reasonable assumption. Most European wars before that time ended that way. Fight for awhile, then gain or lose a few provinces.

(Perhaps Hitler and Tojo should have studied the US Civil War more carefully. That war was the harbinger of things to come.)