Pacific
After the European report was completed, the Survey turned its attention to the Pacific campaign. The report opens with a discussion of the Japanese strategic plans, which were based on an initial victory against the US Navy which would upset any US plans in the Pacific for an estimated 18 months to 2 years. During this time they planned to "speedily extract bauxite, oil, rubber and metals from Malaya, Burma, the Philippines and the Dutch East Indies, and ship these materials to Japan for processing". They also noted the belief that high casualties would not be accepted by the US democracy, and that if the initial campaigns were successful, a negotiated peace was possible.
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