"Cub Driver" wrote in message
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Without that oil the gains made in China would collapse, the attack south
was always meant to be a limited operation to secure resource

I don't think that an attack waged on a 4,000-mile front could fairly
be called limited.

It was intended to be a six-month operation, followed by a lifetime
occupation of a defense zone too vast to be challenged by the U.S.
navy. But the hoped-for brevity of the war doesn't suggest that it was
minor. After all, Germany invaded and occupied most of continental
Europe in nine months. That wasn't limited!

It was a limited operation in that its goal was not to defeat the C'wealth
or the USA strategically, it was to simply push them back outside the
planned area of fortifications and then dig in.

A limited operation does not have to be minor, it just has to have well
defined limits.