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Politics : Ask Michael Burke
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To: Tommaso who wrote (86850)12/15/2000 5:05:42 AM
From: Snowshoe  Read Replies (2) of 132070
 
>>if there had been no Pacific fleet, what was to stop the Japanese from at least trying it?<<

I've read that Japan lacked the logistics for even a land invasion of Hawaii, let alone the West Coast. Between the highly effective Dutch sabotage of oil production facilities in their Asian colonies, and American submarine raids on their tankers, the Japanese Navy was chronically short of fuel.

Here's a detailed site that details the war production differential between the U.S. and Japan:

Why Japan Really Lost The War
combinedfleet.com
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