Lets play world war II mix and match!

[the_tyrant]

Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen

A lack of commerce raiding did not lose the war for Japan. Poor production decisions did. They created and maintained a naval force that was ill-suited for the type of war that was fought. That is the fact at the heart of both tater's argument and my own.

Well they didn't really have a bad fleet, but more bad doctrine
nothing wrong with their battleship orientated fleet, most navies were like that at the time

surprisingly Japan didn't (or was unwilling to) understand the importance of merchants and convoys

they only created a department for escorting merchants in 43, and only 2nd rate crews were for escort duty

before 43 they used fleet destroyers with crew trained for fleet engagements for escorts.

And the US couldn't have lost, with all those carriers and battleships built during the war