[Robert DeLong]

Well that is your take. I don’t see it that way, but that is me. reality is we don’t know if the statement was hyperbole or perhaps an accurate assessment. I still enjoyed the article.Perhaps you know further information that easily bolsters your argument. If so share what you actually know.

[ealgeone]

http://www.combinedfleet.com/economic.htm

We were not going to lose to Japan.

[ealgeone]

Yamamoto is said to have made this statement: I can run wild for six months . . . after that, I have no expectation of success."

He knew from touring the US our industrial capability was far more than Japan would ever be able to generate.

This is a good article from Victor Davis Hanson.

https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2020/apr/09/victor-davis-hanson-is-the-u-s-a-sleepi/

In it he notes the following:

By the end of 1944, the American gross domestic product exceeded the economic output of all the major belligerents on both sides of World War II put together: the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, Japan, Italy and Germany.

We were not going to lose the war to Japan as the idiot writer suggested.