Join us on Discord!: https://discord.gg/5bq2vu7wss Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 01:47 Malaya: British "Goldmine" in The Far East 04:17 Japan: Operation E 09:11 The Japanese Strategy 13:41 Order of Battle: Japan 18:39 United Kingdom: The Singapore Strategy 22:27 United Kingdom: Progress of The Singapore Strategy 1937-1941 26:17 Order of Battle: Malaya Command 31:05 United Kingdom: Operation Matador and Force Z 34:21 Next on Malaya Campaign Series *Note: All maps in this video was dated on November 1941. Description: Malayan Campaign (1941-1942) | Pacific War By August 1941, Japan’s military situation looked grim, what started as a border skirmish around Beijing had evolved into full-scale war, draining more and more resources from the Empire. Although it was far superior to its Chinese counterpart, the Japanese army had a hard time coping with logistics and was subject to an intense guerilla war. Chinese forces moved rather easily in the countryside and avoided pitched battles limiting Japanese occupation to heavily fortified cities and railways. Even worse, the Allies, unwilling to see Japan threaten their local interests while they were busy dealing with Germany, supplied the united front with oil and equipment. After opportunistically occupying Vichy Indochina to secure the Chinese supply lines Japan was placed under a total embargo of its economy by the Western powers, paving the way to further escalation. With its strategic oil reserve half way to depletion and oil supplies from the USA and Dutch East Indies halted, Japan needed to do something fast. Still nursing wounds after their defeat against the Soviets, the army had decided to join the navy’s doctrine of southern expansion, oil and rubber beckoning them on. In order to cut china from its suppliers they planned to launch a sudden Southern Campaign, using the already seized French Indochina as a springboard. With western colonizers distracted by the war in Europe it was the perfect moment to seize the resource-rich South East Asia. The First objective is the rubber-rich British colony in Malaya…. The Malayan Campaign was the invasion of the Malaya by Imperial Japan and the defense of the Colonial possession by the United Kingdom and commonwealth forces during the Second World War In the Asia-Pacific. This video focused on the early planning and strategy of both forces, the Japanese with Operation E, and The United Kingdom with The Singapore Strategy. Also, include in this video is the Composition of the Rikugun 25th Army and orders of battle and the British Malaya Command with its composition and Order of Battle. A special thanks to RMcD/Ross for providing his voice. Sources: - The Defence and Fall of Singapore 1940-1942 by Brian Farrell - Hirohito's War: The Pacific War, 1941-1945 by Francis Pike - Malaya and Singapore 1941–42: The fall of Britain’s empire in the East (Campaign) By Mark Stille - The Battle for Singapore: The True Story of the Greatest Catastrophe of World War II by Peter Thompson - Battle for Malaya: The Indian Army in Defeat, 1941–1942 by Kaushik Roy - Defeat in Malaya: The Fall of Singapore (Ballantine's Illustrated History of World War II: BB Campaign Book, No. 5) by Arthur Swinson - Sepoys Against the Rising Sun: The Indian Army in Far East and South-East Asia, 1941–45 by Kaushik Roy - How the Gibraltar of the east fell. A historical analysis of the Singapore Strategy up to WWII https://wavellroom.com/2020/03/26/how-the-gibraltar-of-the-east-fell-a-historical-analysis-of-the-singapore-strategy-up-to-wwii/

• published: 17 Jan 2021
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