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To: cosmicforce who wrote (497672)	8/27/2022 7:36:32 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542044

LOL, yes navel blockade is a much better word. However it would have been, effectively a siege :). siege /sej/ Learn to pronounce noun a military operation in which enemy forces surround a town or building, cutting off essential supplies, with the aim of compelling the surrender of those inside. "Verdun had withstood a siege of ten weeks" <>Message #497672 from cosmicforce at 8/27/2022 7:07:35 PM >>A siege Never seen that term applied to an island. Did you mean a naval blockade? That would have been my armchair general command. Any land invasion of Japan would have been a shitshow. Until the Emperor said it was over - it would not have been over.