Discuss and justify tactics used by the imperial Japanese army in order to capture shanghai, also elaborate on effect of these tactics. Tactics and strategies in World War 2 were extremely vigorous and effective, especially from the Imperial Japanese army. Their attack upon Shanghai (13th August 1937 – 26th November 1937) was brought to a steady victory due to accelerated combat and sacrificing tactics brought to the city of Shanghai. The republic of China was unable to withstand the aggressive movements of the Imperial Japanese army, Japan outnumbered 700,000 soldiers to 300,000 was forced to strategically fight this battle. The Imperial army of Japan was becoming desperate over China’s decision to boycott the nation of Japan. Limiting material …show more content…
In the 3 months of constant fighting, Japanese Imperial forces would let China’s forces regroup and attack as this would also cause death toll towards Chinese forces and let the Japanese forces regroup, resupply and prepare for ongoing combat. “Attrition warfare was to ensure the enemy is starved of supplies and equipment” - https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/attrition_warfare , most effective before the enemy is about to collapse. These most effective strategy adopted by Japanese forces was called “Blitzkrieg” Where all forces, tanks, infantry and artillery would all focus on one point. No flanking routes just raw over powering the enemy’s defensive positions, causing maximum impact upon enemy’s death toll. This strategy was adopted from German forces in the Second World War. - …show more content…
He invested training into disciplining infantry and creating them into nationalist of their own. Japanese soldiers were simply not afraid of dying for their nations making them one of the most durable, powerful, consistent and focused forces ever. With this mentality across the Japanese imperial army, combat became a lot more intensified and out going. http://ww2history.com/experts/Akira_Iriye/Mentality_of_the_Japanese - “I think there is no question about that. I think a kind of collective mentality, or collectivist mentality, and also the idea that you are a member of this family, and what you do brings dishonour to your parents, but not only that, to the Emperor too. This is the whole idea of the nation as one family with the Emperor as the Divine Head. So whatever you do you are bringing either honour or dishonour to the Emperor. There’s nothing in between. So to die is more honourable than to live. I think the conception of life and death, things like that, are maybe at the basis of this. No individual thinking here. Of course there were people who were not that way, but they would not be able to express their opinion more clearly or more frankly during the war because of the mentality of wartime Japan.” This secondary source confirms the mentality of a Japanese soldier during WW2. They have a true sense of honour in dying for their country causing an