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Originally Posted by Torplexed
I've haven't got that one. It does sound like an interesting read. If I recall correctly the Japanese would often send merchant ships south into the Southern Resource Area filled with troops or supplies. Then they would return... empty! An incredible waste of shipping for a maritime nation already strapped for such. Sounds like Parillo found even more bloopers in the shipping department.
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Oh yes, you think of anything wrong you could do in the shipping, convoy, convoy protection, ship production or planning areas and the Japs did it.
re your example above, yes they would return empty and pass an empty convoy going in the other direction to pick up resources, then throw in the fact that the IJA and IJN ran independent supply systems so that sort of waste was happening twice.
Parillo also goes into the production of ships and the requisitioning of ships from the civilian sector, as well as the spiteful approach of both the IJA and the IJN to drafting civilians that were working in vital support areas for the other service.