C8 wrote:... and the Japanese population is shrinking rapidly.
A country with AEGIS cruisers, F15s and a 20 000 tonne carrier is not 'rearming', but rather fully armed. From the word go from the government it could be a nuclear armed state in months and thermonuclear in a year or two.sparky wrote:.
Japan has been re-militarizing for 40 years , prodded and pushed by the U.S.
C8 wrote: my historical studies of Japan convince me that Japanese culture seems to have had the tendency to go through extreme shifts in reaction to outside events. They went from isolationism, to extreme imperialism, to extreme pacifism in the space of 100 years.
C8 wrote:
I am not a war nationalist and agree that the best thing for the Japanese in the face of PO and AGW is to shrink its population- but my historical studies of Japan convince me that Japanese culture seems to have had the tendency to go through extreme shifts in reaction to outside events. They went from isolationism, to extreme imperialism, to extreme pacifism in the space of 100 years.
sparky wrote:the British as was their style , ran away ,again
C8 wrote:I guess what I meant about re-arming in a big way might be defined as a serious increase in military personnel (50% more than current levels), enough ships and jets to fight in multiple arenas (as in WW2) against a foe that has almost 10 times their population, and a general shift in public consciousness so that a significant civilian sacrifice for military build up is considered necessary. I do understand now that Japan will not want to rely on the US. From what I understand also, the decline rate in population will increase in the coming years- that should scare a lot of Japanese.
dorlomin wrote:The strategic position of Japan vis a vis China is pretty safe. As an island on the edge Eurasia it is similar to the traditional position of the UK. It merely needs sufficient naval and air force to deter a credible invasion threat.
for the British , they were the champions of getting other people to do the hard fighting for them
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