Christian scholars say no war

[Carl Remick]

>From: Bradford DeLong <jbdelong at uclink.berkeley.edu>
>
>Assuming--in 1945--that the war could be ended some other way would seem to 
>be an even less safe assumption. Japan could not have launched the war. 
>Japan could have surrendered after Midway. Japan could have surrendered 
>after Guadalcanal. Japan could have surrendered after Saipan. Japan could 
>have surrendered after the Marianas. Japan could have surrendered after the 
>Battle of Leyte Gulf. Japan could have surrendered after the conquest of 
>Iwo Jima. Japan could have surrendered after the conquest of Okinawa.
>
>The Japanese military government didn't.
>
>So I've never seen how the alternative strategy--which seems to involve 
>simply mopping up the Japanese army in China and waiting for the Japanese 
>generals and admirals to surrender--is supposed to have worked.
>
>Brad DeLong

How much oil did Japan have on hand in 1945?  I frankly have no idea,  but I 
imagine their oil supplies must have been dwindling.  If so, why couldn't 
the US just have blockaded Japan and waited for their oil to run out?

Carl

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