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Originally Posted by August
Wholly defensive? Well what about Orde Wingate and the Chindits?
As for the rest:
The Japanese and Soviets first fought each other way back July 0f 1938.
Several of the French colonies in the pacific sided with the Free French instead of the Vichy. As a matter of fact despite being nominally on the Axis' side, fighting between the Vichy French and Japanese still broke out in Sept of 1940 when the Japanese violated the terms of their agreement over the occupation of French Indochina.
As for the Dutch, they might have been overwhelmed but they still participated too.
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I think the point was why the coverage of WW2 ETO in books, games, movies dwarfs the PTO.
I think it is fair to say that for the UK, France, USSR, Netherlands, the Pacific Theatre was of minor importance compared to the ETO.
For the US, it was of more importance since they were doing the bulk of the fighting, although I know that at one point in mid-42, the US had calculated that it was devoting only 15% of its overall resources to the PTO, although that was subsequently increased.
The invasion of Guadalcanal was so short of everything that it was dubbed "Operation Shoestring".