<t>A point to be made. In 1920, the British Empire id'd Japan as a possible enemy. This is where Singapore came from. Jellicoe went out and did a study which in the end required a fortifed port in the East and a 20 BB fleet. The British did neither, but did create a partially fortified fleet base at ...

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The Great Pacific War was a direct result of a clash between Japanese and everyone else's political objectives.<br/>
Japan sought resources to maintain and expand its economy. This was Japan's primary political objective and, eventually, became sacrosanct as did the national strategy to ...

<t>First, as far as the AI. There should be a historical and an alternate AI for each participant (ie. Japan, US, etc). The historical AI would use the known plans and historical responses, ie. IJN seeks "decisive battle", ignores "total, long war" and "trade protection". The alternate AI would ...