# Question regarding the attack on Pearl Harbor

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 19, 2013, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-regarding-the-attack-on-pearl-harbor/666628 "2013-08-19T10:26:03Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 30, 2013, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-regarding-the-attack-on-pearl-harbor/666628/150 "2013-08-30T04:14:01Z")

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> [@Dissonance](#):
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> Based upon your experience playing wargames. The reality is that Japan had to secure sources of oil and rubber or its economy was going to collapse. Attacking Siberia would gain nothing for Japan. Before you say ‘but the Axis would have won the war’ your basic assumptions are based on fiction. T

And, you note I said they had to take control of the DEI, etc, first for the oil, etc- and just put pressure on Siberia?

Yeah, “just wargames”. :dubious:Sure A&A, but also College vs College played on a super computer.

The US military, and in fact every military in the world since the late 1800’s has depended on wargames to show how things might go. Wargames show what could have been.

Sure, the Japanese didn’t- which makes it fiction. So? :dubious:We’re discussing what _could have happened,_ Alt-hist.

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