Precisely, bro ! I love reading about American Industrial Revolution, which started in the early 19th century, and the natural character of Americans, their entrepreneurial and commercial spirit that enabled the development of their industrial might. The way the country is shaped, the location and postion of their industrial centers are so widely interspersed throughout the continental United States that in the event of a naval bombardment on one coast, it wouldn't lead to the collapse of their industry, since there is the midwest, the south, and the pacific region.
From the get go, Japan was doomed to a defensive warfare with the United States because the Imperial Military Command thought that the United States would fight an attrition war. They believed that American would fight for every island in the pacific and that the casualties and cost to take these islands would inhibit the American drive to fight. Well, America thought outside the box, they fought assymetrically when they implemented their Leap Frog Doctrine, literally and purposely bypassing heavily defended islands such as Rabaul, and utilized naval blockade to starve many other island chains into submission.
America knew Japan's war strategy. It was defensive. That meant that Japan wouldn't be sending any naval forces to the American coast and thus there was no enemy threat on her industrial centers. Meaning they were pumping out planes, tanks, guns, helmets, tractors, ships , production capacity was 100%, no damages. Japan, on the other hand, had been slowly , slowly being targetted by American bombers since Dolittle's raid. And As American forces took islands close to the home islands, they were targetting our industrial cities (yokohama, maizuru, tokyo, nagasaki, hiroshima, Yokosuka, Sapporo etc etc), a slow and attrition warfare. Their production was at 100%, but ours was decreasing every month as their bombers struck their targets again, and again.
The same is true for what happened to Germany and the great German industrial centers as Soviet air force, British air force and American air forces were slowly strangulating Germany's industrial capability.
The point is this buddy, it doesn't matter how strong your industrial capability is, what matters is how you can protect it, prevent it from being targetted by enemy bombers is what counts. Germany, in the beginning of the war had a greater industrial capability that the Soviets , and the other allies. However, as allied bombings took a toll on their inudstrial centers such as Hamburg, Dresden, Berlin, Frankfurt --- that affected their ability to prosecute the war and to defend itself.
Industrial Capacity does not win wars (as the German case shows), but it is how well one's industrial centers can survive strategic attacks , that predicates a nation's ability to sustain a long war. Then one has to consider the commensurability of the fighting capability of the armed forces, which is also another independent variable to consider.
Regards.
, i 100% agree with ur idea.
